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Apr 26, 1954
Percussionist Billy Ware, of the Cajun group Beausoleil, is born. The band appears on Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Down At The Twist And Shout"
Apr 29, 1954
Karen Brooks is born in Dallas. Voted the Academy of Country Music's Top New Female Vocalist in 1983, she scores a #1 hit with T.G. Sheppard on "Faking Love," and writes Emmylou Harris' "Tennessee Rose"
May 1, 1954
Singer/songwriter Don King is born in Omaha, Nebraska. His writing credits include Janie Fricke's "You Don't Know Love" and Reba McEntire's "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"
May 13, 1954
Ray Kennedy is born in Buffalo, New York. He earns a hit in 1990 with "What A Way To Go," then goes on to produce alt.country albums with Steve Earle
May 19, 1954
Drummer Phil Rudd is born in Melbourne, Australia. He handles the kit during the key commercial years for hard-rock band AC/DC, namechecked in Craig Morgan's 2016 country hit "Bonfire"
May 31, 1954
Steel player Paul Franklin is born in Detroit. Beginning his studio career on Gallery's 1972 pop single "It's So Nice To Be With You," Franklin plays on country hits by George Strait, Alan Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Shania Twain, among others
Jun 3, 1954
Singer/songwriter Dan Hill is born in Toronto. His pop single "Sometimes When We Touch" is remade by Mark Gray & Tammy Wynette, and he writes the Mark Wills hits "I Do (Cherish You)" and "She's In Love," plus Sammy Kershaw's "Love Of My Life"
Jun 6, 1954
Bass player Bryan Grassmeyer is born in Nebraska. He becomes a founding member of The Gibson/Miller Band, playing on their lone hit, "Texas Tattoo." He leaves the band before it records its second album
Jun 15, 1954
Terri Gibbs is born in Miami, Florida. On the heels of her pop/country hit "Somebody's Knockin'," she wins the Country Music Association's first Horizon award, designed to honor new and developing artists, in 1981
Jun 15, 1954
Guitarist and banjo player Bruce Watkins is born in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He plays on a host of Alan Jackson hits, plus George Jones' "Choices," Jamie O'Neal's "Trying To Find Atlantis" and the Dolly Parton/Ricky Van Shelton duet "Rockin' Years"
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