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Mar 1, 1969
Barbara Mandrell signs her first recording contract with Columbia
Mar 11, 1969
After 25 years as a bluegrass duo, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs split up
Apr 1, 1969
Rick Nelson makes a historic appearance at The Troubadour in West Hollywood with his group, The Stone Canyon Band, eschewing his rockabilly past for country-rock
May 24, 1969
Two months after his split with longtime partner Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs debuts The Earl Scruggs Revue--sons Gary and Randy Scruggs, Boomer Castleman and Travis Murphy--in Gatlinburg
Jul 25, 1969
Neil Young performs for the first time with Crosby, Stills & Nash at New York's Fillmore East. Two of his songs become country hits: "Are You Ready For The Country," by Waylon Jennings; and "Love Is A Rose," by Linda Ronstadt
Aug 22, 1969
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs record together for the last time, five months after they broke up the duo, at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. Among the session's musicians are two future members of the Country Music Hall of Fame: Charlie Daniels and Charlie McCoy
Feb 18, 1970
Hank Williams Jr. signs with MGM Records for $500,000, the highest amount paid at the time in the label's history
Feb 23, 1970
RCA presents an award to Eddy Arnold at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel signifying 60,000,000 in record sales
Apr 10, 1970
Paul McCartney announces he is leaving The Beatles, folding the Fab Four. Several of the band's songs are remade as country hits, including the McCartney co-writes "I Feel Fine" and "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"
Sep 9, 1970
Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since the 1950s at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. The concert is the subject of a bomb threat
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