About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • November 15, 2024 CST

  • Miscellaneous
  • Timelines Help
  • Slice and dice country music history by a specific kind of event: birth, death, gold album, Macy�s Thanksgiving Day Parade appearance - more than 250 ways to look at recurring events
  •    
    • Apr 13, 1997
    Following a rash of fast-food murders in Nashville, Hank Williams Jr. has a letter to the editor printed in The Tennessean, favoring the death penalty: "If there has ever been a reason for the state of Tennessee to start executing people--now is the time"
    Apr 18, 1997
    The Tennessean reports Randy Travis is parting with Warner Bros. Records, where he first rose to prominence 11 years earlier
    May 12, 1997
    People magazine names Deana Carter among the "50 most beautiful people in the world," alongside Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Derek Jeter and Oprah Winfrey
    Jun 5, 1997
    The Tennessean reports Hal Ketchum is expected to divorce his wife, Terrell Tye
    Jun 8, 1997
    LeAnn Rimes makes an appearance on the cover of TV Guide
    Jun 15, 1997
    Newcomer Sara Evans is the subject of a major feature in Nashville's morning paper, The Tennessean. George Jones reads the story and asks her to open for him in a concert that summer
    Jun 18, 1997
    The Tennessean reports Stephanie Bentley is no longer with Epic Records. She goes on to success as a co-writer on the Faith Hill hit "Breathe"
    Jun 18, 1997
    The Tennessean reports that Aaron Tippin has split with RCA Records
    Jun 19, 1997
    The Tennessean runs a front-page story heralding Brenda Lee and songwriters Harlan Howard and Cindy Walker as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jun 23, 1997
    Trace Adkins tells his side of a domestic gun accident in People magazine. While arguing about his drinking in 1994, he says his wife shot a .38, with a bullet going through both lungs and both ventricles in his heart



    Displaying : 510 - 520 of 1597 / Page << | 1... | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | ...160 | >>

  • The Ultimate Country Music Database


    • RolandNote.com is a detailed country music database compiled by veteran music journalist Tom Roland that chronicles more than 60,000 events and 10,000 recordings.

     

    Discover what happened in country music on a particular date or in a particular month, get the history of your favorite country songs or your favorite country artists.

     

    From George Jones to George Strait, from the Carter Family to Carrie Underwood, from Johnny Cash to Jason Aldean, from Hank Williams to HARDY, from Merle Haggard to Miranda Lambert.

     

    RolandNote.com is the ultimate country music database!