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    • Oct 4, 1961
    Bob Dylan, destined to write a number of country hits, appears at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall for the first time. His audience numbers just 50 people
    Nov 9, 1961
    Brian Epstein first sees The Beatles, whom he is destined to manage, at The Cavern in Liverpool, England. The Fab Four will write several songs that become country hits, including "I Feel Fine," "Something" and "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"
    Nov 25, 1961
    After The New York Journal American's Dorothy Kilgallen referred to a Carnegie Hall lineup of country stars as "Carnegie hillbillies," Patsy Cline shoots back on a stage in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, referring to her as "the wicked witch of the east"
    Nov 29, 1961
    The Grand Ole Opry comes to Carnegie Hall, with Patsy Cline, Grandpa Jones, Bill Monroe, Minnie Pearl, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Faron Young and The Jordanaires. The performance benefits the Musicians' Aid Society. In the crowd: Jimmy Dean and comic Jack Benny
    Dec 5, 1961
    June Carter performs on Johnny Cash's live show for the first time at "The Big D Jamboree" in Dallas. Two months later, she becomes a regular member of the Man in Black's road show
    Dec 30, 1961
    Jack Greene is asked to be Ernest Tubb's drummer when Tubb plays Atlanta's East Point. Six months later, he's in the band
    Dec 31, 1961
    Janis Joplin performs her first concert at the Halfway House in Beaumont, Texas. Joplin's "Me And Bobby McGee" is ranked among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Dec 31, 1961
    Johnny Cash plays Camden, New Jersey, with June Carter, Flatt & Scruggs and Marty Robbins. While Robbins performs, bass player Marshall Grant tosses an M-80 into a urinal backstage, the resulting blast covering a dressing room in sewage
    Feb 11, 1962
    June Carter becomes a permanent member of Johnny Cash's road show, with a concert in Des Moines, Iowa. Also on the bill: Patsy Cline and 13-year-old steel guitarist Barbara Mandrell
    Mar 24, 1962
    Brian Jones sits in on guitar at a London blues club. In the crowd are Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who will form The Rolling Stones with him. Their "Honky Tonk Women" is hailed by the Country Music Foundation among country's greatest singles



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