Today in Country Music: November 5 (source: rolandnote) 2012- Tim McGraw snags a gold single for Truck Yeah 2010- Sara Evans performs for the grand opening of the Tanget Outlet Center in Mebane, North Carolina. 2009- Sugarlands album Twice The Speed Of Life goes triple-platinum. 2008- BNA releases the Kellie Pickler single Best Days Of Your Life to radio. Pickler wrote the song with Taylor Swift, who sings on the recording. 2007- Arista releases Alan Jacksons Small Town Southern Man to radio. 2007- John Michael Montgomery formally announces the creation of his own label, Stringtown Records. 2007- Otherwise retired from touring, Garth Brooks launches a string of nine concerts in 10 days at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, with opening act Trisha Yearwood. His set list includes Rodeo, That Summer, The River and Unwound 2006- Reba McEntire and Ronnie Milsap are among the first six inductees in Nashvilles Music City Walk of Fame. Also added: Roy Orbison, songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, The Fisk Jubilee Singers and conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn. 2003- Alan Jackson and Johnny Cash win three trophies each in the 37th annual Country Music Association awards at Nashvilles Grand Ole Opry House on CBS. Jackson earns Entertainer of the Year; Male Vocalist; and Vocal Event, for Its Five OClock Somewhere; Cash wins Single and Video of The Year for Hurt, and Album honors for The Man Comes Around 2003- Carl Smith and piano player Floyd Cramer officially enter the Country Music Hall of Fame during the 37th annual Country Music Association awards at Nashvilles Grand Ole Opry House. 2002- American Recordings releases Johnny Cashs American IV: The Man Comes Around. Its the last album of new material issued during the singers life. 2002- Vern Gosdins Super Hits album goes gold. 2002- The late Marty Robbins collects a gold album for Super Hits 2002- Johnny Cashs 16 Biggest Hits is certified platinum. 2002- Rounder releases Alison Krauss + Union Station - Live 2002- Arista releases Alan Jacksons second holiday album, Let It Be Christmas 2002- George Jones Super Hits album is certified double-platinum, while his 16 Biggest Hits goes gold. 2002- Willie Nelsons 16 Biggest Hits album goes platinum. 2002- Ricky Van Sheltons Super Hits album is certified gold. 2001- Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello perform together in New York for the first installment of CMT Crossroads, designed to mix country and non-country acts. Williams wrote Mary Chapin Carpenters Passionate Kisses 2000- Jimmie Davis dies in his sleep at home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Country musics first centenarian, Davis was twice governor of Louisiana, but made his mark in music with You Are My Sunshine, earning him a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame. 1999- The Tennessean reports five members of the Grand Ole Opry house band are being fired to revitalize the show. Counters Vince Gill: The real crux of the problem is in Garth and in Reba and in Alan and in Clint... Big stars of today that dont support it. 1996- MCA releases Reba McEntires What If Its You album. 1996- Mercury releases Terri Clarks album Just The Same album. 1990- Arista releases Pam Tillis first hit, Dont Tell Me What To Do 1990- Reba McEntire gains a gold album for Rumor Has It 1988- T. Graham Brown notches his third and final #1 hit on Billboards Country chart with Darlene 1986- Conway Twitty records Julia during an evening session at Sound Stage in Nashville. 1983- Glen Campbell makes his Grand Ole Opry debut with a medley that features music by the late Marty Robbins. 1982- RCA releases Alabamas Christmas In Dixie 1980- Warner Bros. releases T.G. Sheppards I Feel Like Loving You Again 1977- Don Williams goes to #1 with Im Just A Country Boy on Billboards Country chart. 1974- Ryan Adams born in Jacksonville, North Carolina. After fronting the alt-country band Whiskeytown, he becomes a critically acclaimed artist blending roots-rock and country influences. He also writes the Tim McGraw hit When The Stars Go Blue 1974- Sonny James records two future Top 10 hits: A Little Bit South Of Saskatoon and Come On In during a morning session at Nashvilles Columbia Studio B. 1973- Capitol releases Buck Owens Big Game Hunter 1971- The Stamps Quartet begins performing with Elvis Presley when he plays Minneapolis. 1971- Lynn Anderson remakes the Johnnie Ray pop standard Cry during an afternoon session at Columbia Studio B in Nashville. 1970- Heather and Jennifer Kinley are born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They form a duo, The Kinleys, and win the Academy of Country Musics Top New Duo or Group award in 1998 on the heels of a debut album brimming with strong harmonies. 1969- Jerry Reed records his million-selling Amos Moses at RCA Studio B in Nashville. 1968- Hank Williams Jr. records Custody in Nashville using the alias Luke The Drifter Jr. 1967- Days after his latest narcotics arrest, Johnny Cash is persuaded by his girlfriend, June Carter, to attend the First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He hears a sermon about the woman at the well and rededicates his life. 1965- Decca releases the album Bright Lights And Country Music by Bill Anderson and The Po Boys. 1962- New single releases on Capitol Records include Buck Owens Youre For Me and Faron Youngs Down By The River 1960- Johnny Horton dies in an auto accident in Austin after performing at the Skyline. Also injured: manager Tillman Franks and guitarist Tommy Tomlinson. Hortons last words before the accident: You know, Tillman, the Lords been real good to me this year 1960- Johnny Cash records the title track to the B-movie Five Minutes To Live in Nashville. Following the session, he travels to Shreveport to console Billie Jean Horton after Johnny Horton died in a car accident. 1956- Don Gibson signs with RCA Records. 1956- Jerry Lee Lewis scores an impromptu audition at Memphis Sun Records, with engineer Jack Clement. In less than 10 days, he makes his first record. 1956- Decca releases Kitty Wells double-sided hit Repenting and Im Counting On You 1951- Martha Carson records her signature song, Satisfied. The Gospel tune never makes national Country charts, but it helps her gain membership in the Grand Ole Opry. 1951- Songwriter Archie Jordan is born in Augusta, Georgia. He writes the Ronnie Milsap ballads Lets Take The Long Way Around The World and It Was Almost Like A Song, plus hits for Sylvia, Charlie Rich and Barbara Mandrell. 1948- The Oak Ridge Boys founder, Wally Fowler, inaugurates the all-night Gospel sing following the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. 1948- Elvis Presley attends school in Tupelo, Mississippi, for the last time before the family moves to Memphis. He gives a short concert for his classmates, including a performance of A Leaf On A Tree 1946- Gram Parsons is born in Winter Haven, Florida. As a member of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo artist, he becomes an important figure in the development of Country-Rock. He tours and records with protege Emmylou Harris. 1936- Songwriter-producer Billy Sherrill is born in Phil Campbell, Alabama. He writes Stand By Your Man, Almost Persuaded and The Most Beautiful Girl, among others, and produces such acts as George Jones, Johnny Paycheck and Marty Robbins, earning induction in the Country Music Hall of Fame. 1914- Roy Horton is born near Broad Top, Pennsylvania. In the 1940s, he becomes a publisher with Peer-Southern Music, and in 1950 he plays on The Pinetoppers only hit, Mockin Bird Hill. He enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1982. 1911- Leonard Slye is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. As Roy Rogers, he becomes a silver-screen cowboy, joining the Country Music Hall of Fame as a solo star and as a member of The Sons Of The Pioneers.
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