Hometown Country Music

This Date in Country Music History – July 15th

Posted by admin at 7:41 am on July 15, 2025

Jul 152025

Bill Anderson

This Date in Country Music History

HCM Content

Posted by admin at 10:51 pm on July 14, 2025

Jul 142025

Posted by admin at 6:24 am on July 14, 2025

Jul 142025

This Date in Country Music History

2021 – Ashley Monroe began treatment for a rare form of blood cancer
2014 – Brett Eldredge released his single “Mean to Me”
1998 – Collin Raye released his The Walls Came Down album
1998 – Trisha Yearwood released her album Where Your Road Leads
1992 – Tracy Byrd released his debut single “That’s The Thing About a Memory”
1990 – Garth Brooks scored a #1 hit with “The Dance” – it stayed there for 3 weeks
1956 – Elvis Presley scored a #1 hit with “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”

HCM Content

Posted by admin at 7:37 am on July 13, 2025

Jul 132025

This Date in Country Music History

2021 – Toby Keith, Rhett Akins, Amy Grant, Buddy Cannon and John Scott Sherill were named as the Class of 2021 for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
2019 – Blanco Brown scored a #1 Billboard Country single with “The Git Up”
2018 – Chris Lane released his album Laps Around the Sun
2017 – Kid Rock signed a recording deal with Broken Bow Records
2015 – Thomas Rhett’s single “It Goes Like This” was certified Double Platinum
2014 – David Nail was named co-MVP of the MLB Celebrity Softball Game after hitting 2 HR’s
2012 – Billy Currington’s single “Good Directions” was certified Platinum
2010 – Jerrod Niemann released his debut album Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury
2009 – Uncle Kracker released his single “Smile”
2004 – Jimmy Buffett released his License to Chill album featuring duets with many country stars
2002 – Brad Paisley scored a #1 hit with “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)”
1996 – Shania Twain scored a #1 hit with “No One Needs To Know”
1993 – Clint Black released his album No Time To Kill

HCM Content

Posted by admin at 7:21 am on July 12, 2025

Jul 122025

This Date in Country Music History

2024 – Megan Moroney released her album Am I Okay?
2019 – Kenny Chesney released his single “Tip of My Tongue”
2018 – Eric Church released his single “Desperate Man”
2017 – Michael Ray’s single “Kiss You In The Morning” was certified Gold
2014 – “Somethin’ Bad” by Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood topped the charts
2013 – Jason Aldean became the first country artist to ever headline a concert at Boston’s Fenway Park
2011 – Blake Shelton released his album Red River Blue
2011 – Chris Young released his album Neon
2010 – Kenny Chesney released his single “The Boys of Fall”
2001 – Alan Jackson Day is declared in Nashville as he celebrates the sale of 35 million albums with a Music Row Block Party