COUNTRY HISTORY

Today in 1998, country music’s reigning super-couple, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, were the big winners at the 33rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards. They nabbed four awards (for Single, Song, Video and Top Vocal…

Today in 2000, the British paper, “The Weekly News,”reported that Shania was responsible for helping a 14-year-old boy come out of a coma. In October 1999, the child was struck by a car and left in…

In 2010 - Lady Antebellum won in three categories, Top Vocal Group, Single Record and Song of the Year, for "Need You Now", at the 45th Academy of Country Music Awards from the MGM Grand Garden Arena…

In 1970 - Johnny Cash played at the White House with June Carter and The Statler Brothers for President Nixon, who requested that he played "A Boy Named Sue." Cash declined Nixon's request to do…

In 2010 - Country singer Alan Jackson was awarded his own star at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 1999 - The body of Tammy Wynette was exhumed from her grave in an attempt to settle a dispute over how the country music legend died. A new autopsy was conducted on her a week…

Today in 1961, at the GRAMMYs, Marty Robbins won Best Country & Western Performance for “El Paso.” First released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, It was released as a single the…

Today in 1997, Tracy Lawrence’s appearance at the Wal-Mart in North Richland Hills, Texas was billed by some as the “largest outdoor in-store appearance in the history of mankind.” The event drew an estimated 6,000 screaming…

This day in 2007, the former home of Johnny Cash and June Carter burned to the ground in Hendersonville, Tennessee, while workers were restoring it for new owner Barry Gibb. Watching helplessly were next-door neighbors…

Today in 1998, Tammy Wynette's funeral was held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Stars including Wynonna, Randy Travis, Dolly Parton, Lorrie Morgan and the Oak Ridge Boys all performed musical tributes. Before that very…