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    • May 24, 1952
    Guitar player Rusty York and his family move from Harlan County, Kentucky, to Cincinnati on his 17th birthday. He plays on Jimmie Skinner's 1958 country hit "What Makes A Man Wander"
    Jan 7, 1953
    Elvis Presley's family moves out of the Lauderdale Courts in Memphis. Vernon Presley's income has risen to more than $4,000 annually, $1,500 above the limit to live in the public housing project
    Jan 19, 1953
    Marty Robbins becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry, the same day he moves to Nashville from Arizona
    Apr 23, 1954
    The Pickin' And Singin' News reports Red Foley has moved from Nashville to Springfield, Missouri, where he is signed for several radio shows. Within months, he begins hosting "The Ozark Jubilee" on radio
    Jan 1, 1955
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs move to Nashville to make regular appearances on WSM's radio and television stations, and the Grand Ole Opry
    Jul 4, 1955
    Steel guitarist Buddy Emmons moves to Nashville as a member of Little Jimmy Dickens' band. Emmons becomes a premier session musician, appearing on hits by George Strait, Jim Reeves, Ray Price, Merle Haggard and Mark Chesnutt
    Nov 6, 1956
    Stonewall Jackson moves to Nashville from North Carolina. Just three days later, he makes his Grand Ole Opry debut
    Dec 25, 1956
    Steel guitarist Lloyd Green moves to Nashville from Mobile, Alabama. He becomes a prominent studio musician, playing on Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," Alan Jackson's "Remember When" and John Anderson's "Wild And Blue," among others
    Jun 11, 1958
    "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" songwriter Ted Harris moves from Lakeland, Florida, to Nashville
    Jul 11, 1958
    Chuck Berry, a future member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, purchases a two-story house in St. Louis, Missouri, symbolic of his success with such songs as "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene" and "Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)"



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