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This Date in Country Music History – May 28th

Posted by admin at 7:34 am on May 28, 2025

May 282025

Brad Paisley

This Date in Country Music History

2024 – Sam Hunt released his single “Country House”
2024 – Scotty McCreery released his single “Fall of Summer”
2022 – Morgan Wallen scored a #1 single on the Billboard country chart with “You Proof”
2016 – Keith Urban scored a #1 album with Ripcord
2013 – Aaron Lewis made his Grand Ole Opry debut
2013 – David Nail‘s “Whatever She Got” is released as a single
2009 – George Strait‘s single “Living For The Night” was released
2005 – Keith Urban‘s “Making Memories of Us” hits #1 for the first of 5 straight weeks
1999 – Brad Paisley made his Grand Ole Opry debut
1996 – Bill Engvall’s comedy album, Here’s Your Sign, was released
1994 – Tim McGraw scored his first career #1 hit with “Don’t Take The Girl”
1973 – The Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn duet “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” is released as a single

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Posted by admin at 7:47 am on May 27, 2025

May 272025

Jason Aldean

This Date in Country Music History

2020 – Morgan Wallen released his single “More Than My Hometown”
2020 – Kelsea Ballerini released her single “hole in the bottle”
2017 – Chris Stapleton scored a #1 album with From a Room: Volume 1
2016 – Dierks Bentley released his album Black
2008 – Jessica Simpson released her debut country single “Come On Over”
2006 – Jason Aldean scored his first career #1 hit with “Why”
2002 – Toby Keith released his single “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)”
1997 – Competing versions of the single “How Do I Live” are released by both Trisha Yearwood and LeAnn Rimes
1995 – Ty Herndon‘s “What Mattered Most” became a #1 hit
1982 – George Strait released his single “Fool Hearted Memory”

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Posted by admin at 7:47 am on May 26, 2025

May 262025

Toby Keith

This Date in Country Music History

2009 – Montgomery Gentry was invited by Charlie Daniels to join the Grand Ole Opry
2009 – Jason Aldean released his single “Big Green Tractor”
2007 – Billy Currington hit #1 with “Good Directions” – a song written by Luke Bryan
2004 – Toby Keith dominates the ACM Awards, taking home 4 trophies: Entertainer of the Year, Top Male Vocalist, Album of the Year (Shock’n Y’all), and Video of the Year (“Beer for My Horses” w/ Willie Nelson)
2000 – Phil Vassar made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, who would become the first person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, passed away

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Posted by admin at 7:54 am on May 25, 2025

May 252025

Carrie Underwood

This Date in Country Music History

2020 – Jordan Davis released his song “Almost Maybes”
2019 – Blake Shelton scored a #1 single with “God’s Country”
2018 – John Rich opened his bar in downtown Nashville called Redeck Riviera
2011 – Scotty McCreery won American Idol, with fellow country singer Lauren Alaina coming in second
2011 – Scotty McCreery‘s debut single “I Love You This Big” was released
2011 – Lauren Alaina’s debut single “Like My Mother Does” was released
2005 – Carrie Underwood won American Idol
2005 – Garth Brooks proposed to Trisha Yearwood
2004 – Julie Roberts released her debut, self-titled album
2004 – Lonestar released their album, Let’s Be Us Again
2002 – Alan Jackson hits #1 with his song “Drive (For Daddy Gene)” which stays at #1 for 4 weeks
1991 – Doug Stone hits #1 with “In a Different Light”
1951 – Marty Robbins signed a record label deal with Columbia Records…the partnership lasted 31 years