This Date in Country Music History

• 2022 – Morgan Wallen scored a Billboard Country Singles #1 with “Thought You Should Know”
• 2021 – Blake Shelton released his album Body Language
• 2021 – Jordan Davis released his album Buy Dirt
• 2018 – Scotty McCreery’s single “Five More Minutes” was certified Platinum
• 2018 – Darius Rucker’s former pop/rock band Hootie and the Blowfish saw their album Cracked Rear View get certified 21-times Platinum for sales of over 21 million copies
• 2016 – Maren Morris made her Grand Ole Opry debut
• 2016 – Florida Georgia Line scored a #1 hit with “H.O.L.Y.”
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• 2013 – Darius Rucker‘s True Believers album was released
• 2013 – Kellie Pickler was named the winner of “Dancing with the Stars”
• 2013 – Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert open up NBC’s The Voice with a rendition of “Over You” in honor of tornado victims in Oklahoma
• 2013 – Hunter Hayes is awarded with triple platinum certification for his single “Wanted“
• 2012 – Blake Shelton‘s single “Over” was released
• 2012 – Jake Owen released “The One That Got Away” to radio
• 2002 – Emerson Drive‘s self-titled debut album was released
• 1994 – John Berry topped the charts with “Your Love Amazes Me”
• 1991 – Tracy Lawrence signs a record label deal with Atlantic Records
• 1988 – Kathy Mattea topped the charts with “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Rozes”
• 1984 – Lee Greenwood‘s “God Bless the USA” is released as a single
• 1977 – Waylon Jennings topped the charts for the first of 6 weeks with “Luckenbach, Texas”

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• Video:  Charlie McCoy Invites Kathy Mattea to the Grand Ole Opry
• Tracy Lawrence Sets Date for 20th Anniversary Mission Possible Turkey Fry & Concert
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• Music Video:  “Get Me Gone” by Drew Baldridge & Emily Ann Roberts
• Music Video:  “2 Pair” by Kane Brown
• Music Video:  “Paper Umbrellas” by Tim McGraw w/ Parker McCollum
• Music Video:  “Late Great Heartbreak” by Old Dominion
• Lyric Video:  “Couldn’t Care Less” by Priscilla Block
• Lyric Video:  “Jesus, Momma, Country Radio” by Chris Young
• Music Video:  “Long Live Country Music” by RaeLynn
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This Date in Country Music History

• 2022 – Corey Kent released his song “Wild As Her”
• 2020 – Morgan Wallen scored a #1 album with If I Know Me
• 2015 – Sam Hunt tops the Billboard chart for the first of 6 weeks with “House Party”
• 2015 – Alan Jackson scored a #1 country album with Angels and Alcohol
• 2011 – Lady Antebellum released their single “We Owned the Night”
• 2011 – Eric Church released his single “Drink In My Hand”
• 2006 – Trace Adkins released his album Dangerous Man
• 1998 – Paul Brandt made his Grand Ole Opry debut

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• Bobby Helms (d)
• Rose Maddox (d)

Today’s New Albums

• Gavin Adcock – Own Worst Enemy
• Jordan Davis – Learn the Hard Way

Today’s New Singles

• Famous Back Home – Russell Dickerson
• Jesus, Mamma, Country Radio – Chris Young
• Sip it Slow – Juna N Joey

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• Chris Janson – 8/15/09 – Revolution Live in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Josh Gracin – 8/15/13 – Round Up in Davie, FL
• Travis Tritt – 8/15/09 – Revolution Live in Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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This Date in Country Music History

• 2024 – Ella Langley released her duet “You Look Like You Love Me” with Riley Green
• 2022 – Lainey Wilson released her song “Watermelon Moonshine”
• 2022 – Parmalee released their song “Girl in Mine”
• 2020 – The Country Music Hall of Fame announced the Class of 2020:  Hank Williams Jr, Dean Dillon, and Marty Stuart
• 2019 – Tyler Childers scored a #1 album with Country Squire
• 2016 – Justin Moore released his album Kinda Don’t Care
• 2016 – Dylan Scott released his self-titled debut album
• 2016 – Cody Jinks released his album I’m Not The Devil
• 2015 – Granger Smith signed with Broken Bow Records
• 2009 – Josh Turner released his single “Why Don’t We Just Dance”
• 2006 – Rodney Atkins scored his first career #1 hit with “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows)
• 2000 – Lonestar topped the charts with “What About Now”
• 1989 – Patty Loveless scored her first career #1 hit with “Timber, I’m Falling”
• 1988 – Kathy Mattea made her Grand Ole Opry debut

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If you missed the 2019 CMA Awards, here’s a play-by-play of performances and award winners we’ve pieced together based off our tweets throughout the show!

*Awards in bold

• Opening performance started with co-hosts Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, and Dolly Parton
• Loretta Lynn was in attendance and honored by a performance of “You’re Looking at Country” by Jennifer Nettles and and the ladies of Little Big Town
• The Highwomen, featuring Maren Morris, covered a snippet of Tammy Wynette’s “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad”
• Tanya Tucker then joined them for a performance of “Delta Dawn”
• Gretchen Wilson then came out to perform a snippet of “Redneck Woman”
• Loretta’s sister, Crystal Gayle, then came out to perform part of her signature song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
• Terri Clark then came on stage to perform a piece of her hit “I’ve Got Better Things To Do”
• Sara Evans then came on stage to sing part of her hit “Born to Fly”
• The big opening concluded with Martina McBride coming out to sing “Independence Day” before all of the preceding women joined her for the chorus to close the performance
• The opening monologue featured some good one liners and jokes by the 3 hosts.
  • What do you call 3 women hosting the CMA’s?  You’re lucky night! ~ Dolly Parton
  • Unsurprisingly, a joke was made about Dolly Parton having the biggest rack when Carrie was talking about the wardrobes in their shared dressing room
  • When talking about some of her younger counterparts, Dolly quipped that “they’re on social media, I’m on social security!”
  • Then Carrie made a joke about some parts of Dolly being under 21 years old
  • They thanked Brad Paisley for stepping aside for Dolly and Reba.  Coincidentally, Brad will have a TV special coming out soon…likely his payment for stepping back!
• Deana Carter was out to present Single of the Year when they showed a clip of her jumping up and down on stage excitedly after winning the award for “Strawberry Wine”
• Single of the Year Award went to “God’s Country” by Blake Shelton
• Dan + Shay performed “Speechless”
• Song of the Year Award went to “Beautiful Crazy” by Luke Combs
• Miranda Lambert performed “It All Comes Out in the Wash”
• Reba removed 2 layers of clothing before finishing her performance of “Fancy” in a flashy red dress
• Chris Stapleton joined P!nk for a duet
• New Artist of the Year Award went to Ashley McBryde
• Old Dominion performed “One Man Band”
• Carrie Underwood performed “Drinking Alone”
• Luke Combs performed “Beer Never Broke My Heart”
• Kelsea Ballerini was stunning in her performance of “homecoming queen?”
• Lindsay Ell joined Kelsea for a cover of “Girl Crush”, then Runaway June and Maddie & Tae joined them.  Then, Ashley McBryde and Carly Pearce joined in on the performance before Little Big Town came out to finish it
• Duo of the Year Award went to Dan + Shay
• Lady Antebellum was joined by Helsby for a performance of “What If I Never Get Over You”
• Brooks & Dunn were joined by Brothers Osborne for a performance of “Hard Workin’ Man”
• Maren Morris performed “Girl”
• Vocal Group of the Year Award went to Old Dominion
• Craig Morgan introduced Blake Shelton by thanking him for bringing attention to his new single “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost” before Blake performed his hit “God’s Country”
• Thomas Rhett performed “Remember You Young”
• Dolly Parton was joined by for KING AND COUNTRY and Zach Williams for a medley of Gospel tunes
• Keith Urban performed “We Were”
• Album of the Year Award went to Maren Morris for “Girl”
• Kris Kristofferson was honored with a cover of his hit “Me and Bobby McGee” by Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Sheryl Crow, Chris Janson, and Joe Walsh
• Eric Church performed “Some Of It”
• Male Vocalist of the Year went to Luke Combs
• Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson performed a duet.  Didn’t catch the name but it was about Rainbows (not the Kacey single)
• Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton performed “Dive Bar”
• Female Vocalist of the Year Award went to Kacey Musgraves – presented by Janie Fricke, Pam Tillis, Kathy Mattea, and Martina McBride
• Entertainer of the Year Award went to Garth Brooks