About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • May 20, 2024 CDT

  • Miscellaneous
  • Timelines Help
  • Slice and dice country music history by a specific kind of event: birth, death, gold album, Macy�s Thanksgiving Day Parade appearance - more than 250 ways to look at recurring events
  •    
    • Mar 7, 2020
    Merle Haggard's longtime drummer, Biff Adam, dies of congestive heart failure at his home in Auburn, California. He took part in "Ramblin' Fever," "If We Make It Through December," "It's All In The Movies" and "Cherokee Maiden," among others
    Mar 7, 2020
    Songwriter Jim Owen dies. A longtime entertainer in Branson, Missouri, he penned the Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn single "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man," plus a pair of Jim Ed Brown successes: "Broad-Minded Man" and "Southern Loving"
    Mar 14, 2020
    Songwriter Ramsey Kearney dies. He co-wrote the Brenda Lee pop hit "Emotions"
    Mar 20, 2020
    Kenny Rogers dies of natural causes at his home in Sandy Springs, Georgia. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, he rode a distinctively scratchy tone to a series of crossover hits, including "The Gambler," "Lucille," "Lady" and the Dolly Parton duet "Islands In The Stream"
    Mar 22, 2020
    Instrumentalist Eric Weissberg dies in Michigan. He won a Grammy for "Dueling Banjos," a bluegrass performance that became a pop hit after he recorded it with Steve Mandell for the 1972 movie "Deliverance"
    Mar 28, 2020
    Jan Howard dies in Gallatin, Tennessee, a day after her 49th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. A former wife of songwriter Harlan Howard and duet partner of Bill Anderson, she earned a Top 5 country hit with the 1966 single "Evil On Your Mind" and a Top 15 hit with "My Son," written about her boy, who died in Vietnam
    Mar 29, 2020
    Joe Diffie dies after contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus. A Grand Ole Opry member for more than 25 years, he was one of country's most consistent hitmakers in the 1990s, known for such hits as "Ships That Don't Come In," "Honky Tonk Attitude," "John Deere Green" and "Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die)"
    Apr 2, 2020
    Producer/guitarist Kenny Mims dies from a heart attack in Nashville. A member of the 1990s band Bonepony, he co-produced the Kenny Rogers hit "Twenty Years Ago" and played on Hank Williams Jr.'s "Leave Them Boys Alone" and Dan Seals' "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)"
    Apr 4, 2020
    Songwriter Alex Harvey dies. He was best known for composing Tanya Tucker's "Delta Dawn," but also authored T. Graham Brown's "Hell Or High Water," Billy Ray Cyrus' "Somebody New" and Kenny Rogers & The First Edition's "Ruben James"
    Apr 6, 2020
    Songwriter Jimmy Jay dies of cancer in Florida. A former recording artist and touring musician, he authored Ernest Ashworth's 1966 country hit "At Ease Heart"



    Displaying : 1940 - 1950 of 2092 / Page << | 1... | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | ...210 | >>

  • The Ultimate Country Music Database

    •  

    RolandNote.com is a detailed country music database compiled by veteran music journalist Tom Roland that chronicles more than 60,000 events and 10,000 recordings.

     

    Discover what happened in country music on a particular date or in a particular month, get the history of your favorite country songs or your favorite country artists.

     

    From George Jones to George Strait, from the Carter Family to Carrie Underwood, from Johnny Cash to Jason Aldean, from Hank Williams to HARDY, from Merle Haggard to Miranda Lambert.

     

    RolandNote.com is the ultimate country music database!