History

January 17th, 2000 Garth Brooks is named Artist of the Decade for the '90s during the American Music Awards at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium.

January 16th, 1953 Bill Monroe suffers 19 broken bones, including his spine, and avulsed one of his eyes out of its socket in a head-on collision in Tennessee.

January 15th, 1992 The Judds’ Greatest Hits album was certified double platinum.

January 14th, 2000 Deana Carter’s album Did I Shave My Legs For This? was certified multi-platinum for sales of 5 million copies.

January 13th, 1968 Johnny Cash records the live album Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison in California, remaking "Folsom Prison Blues" in the process.

January 12th, 1976 Country’s first platinum album, Wanted: The Outlaws, was released.

January 11th, 1990 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2 receives five Grammy nominations.

January 10th, 1948 Loretta Webb marries Oliver "Mooney" Lynn in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, officially becoming Loretta Lynn.

January 9th, 2006 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill announced plans to launch their Soul2Soul II tour in the spring.

January 8th, 1993 Elvis Presley receives tribute with a 29-cent U.S. postage stamp, his '50s-era likeness selected in a poll of citizens. Some consumers purposely mail letters to fake addresses so they can get their mail back, stamped with "Return To Sender" In 1992, the American public voted on a matter of vital national importance: young Elvis or old Elvis...

January 7th, 2014 Florida-Georgia Line’s single, “Cruise” became the best-selling digital country single of all-time with 6.3 million copies sold.

January 6th, 1997 LeAnn Rimes debut album, Blue was certified gold, platinum, double and triple platinum.