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    • Aug 9, 1949
    Billy Walker holds his first recording session, for Capitol Records, at radio station WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas. Among the musicians is Howdy Forrester, destined to become a member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys
    Aug 11, 1949
    Leon Payne records "I Love You Because" at the KNUZ studios in Houston, Texas
    Aug 16, 1949
    Stuart Hamblen signs with Columbia Records and holds a recording session the same day, cutting "(I Won't Go Huntin', Jake) But I'll Go Chasin' Women"
    Aug 16, 1949
    Gene Autry records the title song for his movie "Riders In The Sky" in Los Angeles
    Aug 22, 1949
    After ending a recording contract with Apollo Records, The Louvin Brothers hold their first session for Decca at the Castle Studio in Nashville
    Aug 23, 1949
    Red Foley records "Sunday Down In Tennessee"
    Aug 24, 1949
    The Owen Bradley Quintet records "Blues Stay Away From Me" at the Castle Studio in Nashville's Tulane Hotel
    Aug 25, 1949
    Hank Garland records "Sugarfoot Rag"
    Aug 26, 1949
    George Morgan records "I Love Everything About You" and "Cry-Baby Heart"
    Aug 26, 1949
    Merry Christmas, a few months early: Ernest Tubb records "White Christmas" and "Blue Christmas" in an afternoon session at the Castle Studio in Nashville. It marks the first Tubb session for guitarist Billy Byrd, an essential Texas Troubadour



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