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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 6th, 1988 Recording begins for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2" with Johnny Cash, John Denver, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Earl Scruggs, Steve Wariner, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, The Whites, Chris Hillman and others.

December 4th, 1956 During a Carl Perkins recording session also involving Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley visited the studio and jammed with Perkins and Lewis extensively with the tape recorders rolling.

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.

Team Blake Shelton's Craig Wayne Boyd was back at it again on Monday night (Nov. 24) on 'The Voice.' The country singer put his unique spin on Johnny Cash's 'I Walk the Line.'

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

November 21, 1986 Lynn Anderson collects the only platinum album of her career, for Rose Garden.

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

November 12, 2008 George Strait takes home Album of the Year, for Troubadour and Single of the Year, for "I Saw God Today"; during the 42nd annual Country Music Association Awards at Nashville's Sommet Center.

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.