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Oct 10, 1957
Songwriter Tony Arata is born in Savannah, Georgia. His credits include Garth Brooks' "The Dance," Clay Walker's "Dreaming With My Eyes Open," Patty Loveless' "Here I Am" and Jim Glaser's "Man In The Mirror"
Mar 22, 1958
Hank Williams Jr. makes his public stage debut at the age of eight, singing "Lovesick Blues" at the Nancy Auditorium in Swainsboro, Georgia. The facility is owned by Webb Pierce and music executive Jim Denny
Sep 6, 1958
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy is born in Hapeville, Georgia. Based on his "You might be a redneck if..." routine, Foxworthy emerges as the best-selling comic of the 1990s
Oct 17, 1958
Alan Jackson is born in Newnan, Georgia. The first artist signed to Arista Records' country division in 1989, he becomes a traditional icon thanks to such hits as "Chattahoochee," "Gone Country" and "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)," joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017
Dec 23, 1958
Gram Parsons' father, Cecil "Coon Dog" Connor, commits suicide with a .38 caliber pistol at his home in Waycross, Georgia
May 26, 1959
Keyboard player Dave Robbins is born in Atlanta, Georgia. A co-writer of Restless Heart's "The Bluest Eyes In Texas," he becomes one-third of the harmony-intensive group BlackHawk, scoring a series of hook-laden hits in the 1990s
Aug 20, 1959
Bill Anderson graduates from the University of Georgia in Athens with a degree in journalism. Hours later, he moves to Nashville in a 1958 Ford "with a guitar in the backseat and a whole lot of dreams"
Jan 4, 1960
Michael Stipe is born in Decatur, Georgia. He becomes the lead singer for the rock band R.E.M., mentioned in the first line of Darius Rucker's 2017 country single "For The First Time"
May 13, 1960
Gid Tanner dies in Dacula, Georgia. The singer, fiddler and banjo player began making records in 1924 as a leader of the string band The Skillet Lickers, making him one of country's recording pioneers
Jun 10, 1960
Songwriter Wynn Varble is born in Atlanta. Among his credits are Brad Paisley's "Waitin' On A Woman," Easton Corbin's "A Little More Country Than That" and Darryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten?"
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