This Date in Country Music History

• 2022 – Jimmie Allen released his single “Down Home”
• 2021 – MLB’s Texas Rangers re-name their spring training baseball park in Surprise, AZ as Charley Pride Field
• 2020 – Maren Morris scored a #1 single with “The Bones”
• 2013 – Longtime Grand Ole Opry legend Jack Greene passed away
• 2011 – Luke Bryan released his single “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)”
• 2011 – Brad Paisley released his single “Old Alabama”
• 2000 – Shania Twain‘s album Come On Over became the highest selling country album of all time, passing 17 million copies sold
• 1998 – Jo Dee Messina made her Grand Ole Opry debut
• 1998 – Diamond Rio was invited to become members of the Grand Ole Opry
• 1995 – Toby Keith released his single “You Ain’t Much Fun”
• 1992 – John Anderson scored a #1 hit with “Straight Tequila Night”
• 1970 – Merle Haggard topped the charts with “Fightin’ Side of Me”

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