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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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