On this day in 2010, Kenny Chesney captured his tenth consecutive debut at the top of the Billboard Country Albums chart with Hemingway’s Whiskey. The project sold 183,000 copies in it’s first week and also debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album produced 4 #1’s with “The Boy of Fall”, “Somewhere with You”, “Live a Little”, and “Reality”.
Hemingway’s Whiskey has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA.
Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour EP, Here’s to the Farmer, has debuted at #1 on the country album chart, selling more than 34,000 copies in its first week out. The five-song EP also notched the #4 spot on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 chart.
· Bryan’s eighth annual “Farm Tour” got underway last night (10/6) in Greenback, Tennessee.
· The trek’s first date in Gaston, South Carolina, on Wednesday (10/5) was canceled due to the Hurricane Matthew evacuation orders in the area.
Tickets for the 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Charlotte, North Carolina, are now available for sale to the public. Richard Childress, Rick Hendrick, Mark Martin, Raymond Parks and Benny Parsons will be inducted on Friday, January 20th, as the shrine’s eighth class to be so honored. Ticket prices range from forty-five dollars for general admission to 350 dollars for an Exclusive Driver Dinner Package. Ticket packages are available at Ticketmaster-dot-com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. And for more information on the 2017 Hall of Fame Induction weekend, fans can visit NASCAR Hall-dot-com. Following the ceremony, NASCAR Fan Appreciation Day at the Hall of Fame will be held on Saturday, January 21st. Details on driver appearances and related activities will be announced later.
On this day in 1977, Kenny Rogers made it to the top of the charts for the second time of his career with “Daytime Friends.” The song was the lead single from his third album, which was also called “Daytime Friends”
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are joining the cast of NBC’s The Voice. Tim and Faith will serve as key advisers during the current season of The Voice, making them the first duo to ever take on that role on the show. As part of their advisor role, the couple will help get artists ready for the high-stakes knockout rounds airing in October.
· This news comes during a big week for Tim and Faith, as they just announced their 65-city “2017 Soul2Soul World Tour” earlier this week and they also celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary today (10/6).
On this day in 1994, Merle Haggard was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Haggard was the only inductee that year.
Shania Twain will be honored with the Artist of a Lifetime award during the seventh annual CMT Artists of the Year ceremony in Nashville on October 20. Twain will become the first female to ever receive the prestigious award, which was presented to Merle Haggard and Kenny Rogers in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
· Shania is among the ceremony’s 2016 honorees, which include CMT’s top artists of the year: Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan and Thomas Rhett.
· The 90-minute special will be taped live at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center and will air on CMT at 9 PM ET.
Oskaloosa–Caleb Pipes-Goulsbra (Jr., Lincoln, England, Exercise Science) was simply trying to help out his old team by playing Saturday night, but because of his tremendous outing, the ‘retired’ goalkeeper has been named Heart of America Athletic Conference Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week Monday.
A first-time winner, Pipes-Goulsbra was no longer a member of the soccer team, having transitioned over to football this fall. However, he accepted the offer by Head Coach Jaymee Highcock to start; Highcock was in need of a keeper after his starter went down with an injury. It was a great move by both coach and player as Pipes-Goulsbra stopped 16 shots as part of a 1-1 tie with #10 Baker.
In the draw, he tallied five saves in the first half, seven in the second, and added four more in extra play. The save tally is the largest in program history over the past 10 years.
The weekly award is the first for the program.
Dolly Parton has been named as the 2016 recipient of the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented during the upcoming 50th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville. The prestigious award was established to recognize an artist who has reached both national and international prominence through their concert performances, humanitarian efforts, philanthropy and record sales. The 50th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on November 2 at 8:00 PM ET on ABC.
· Past recipients of the rare Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award are Nelson (2012), Kenny Rogers (2013), and Johnny Cash(2015).
The 2016 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup rolls on from Delaware to North Carolina for Saturday night’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It’s the opening race in the Round of Twelve, with the remaining drivers on The Chase Grid hoping to avoid elimination when the field is further reduced to eight in three weeks. All twelve drivers have had their championship points reset to three thousand, and any one of the twelve that wins a race in the next three weeks will automatically advance to the Round of Eight that opens October 30th at Martinsville Speedway … Chase drivers have won the fall race at Charlotte in ten of the twelve years the post-season title format has been in place. The only two non-chase drivers to win during that stretch are Jamie McMurray in 2010 and Brad Keselowski in 2013 … Kyle Busch, the top seed in this year’s Chase, has never won a points-paying Cup Series race in Charlotte. He’s been to Victory Lane there a combined fourteen times in the X-FINITY and Camping World Truck Series … Of the drivers still in contention for the 2016 Sprint Cup championship, Jimmie Johnson has the most wins at C-M-S: seven … Martin Truex Junior will roll into Charlotte with a full head of steam, having won two of the three post-season races so far. And, oh by the way … earlier this season, he won the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway after leading all but eight of the four hundred laps run … Truex entered this year’s Chase as the Number-6 seed but ended the first round Number-1.
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