May 252025
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
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