Hank Williams

December 20th, 1983 Johnny Cash checks into the Betty Ford Center to prevent an addiction to painkillers administered during a recent hospital stay.

December 19th, 1952 Hank Williams gave his final performance, at the Skyline Club in Austin, Texas.

December 13th, 2001 Brenda Lee and Chet Atkins join the list of thirteen performers to be inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as they are announced as inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Le...

December 11th, 1946 Hank Williams has his first recording session, for Sterling Records, at the WSM Studios in Nashville, backed by The Willis Brothers and bass player Chuck Wright.

November 29, 1994 Brooks & Dunn's Brand New Man becomes the first album by a country duo certified quadruple-platinum, while their Hard Workin' Man album goes triple-platinum.

November 23, 1992 Roy Acuff dies from congestive heart failure in Nashville and is buried within eight hours.

November 22, 1946 Gene Autry rides in the Santa Claus Lane parade in Hollywood, as do Roy Rogers, Jack Benny and Red Skelton.

November 15, 2005 Lee Ann Womack wins three trophies in the Country Music Association awards at New York's Madison Square Garden

November 14, 2005 Jason Aldean’s self-titled debut album was certified gold for shipments of 500,000 copies.

November 13, 2010 Alan Jackson's "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)" ranks #1 as CMT debuts 40 Greatest Songs Of The Decade.

November 8, 2009 Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, Ernest Tubb, Kid Rock and Hattie Louise "Tootsie" Bess--the founder of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge--are inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame in Nashville.

November 3, 1961 The Country Music Hall of Fame was established.