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Dec 25, 1965
Jimmy Dean visits a hog farm owned by in-law Troy Pritchard in Plainview, Texas. Shortly after, he buys half of the farm, starting down a road in business that will find him the owner of his own sausage company
Dec 28, 1965
Johnny Cash pleads guilty to drug possession in El Paso, Texas, where he was busted in October with over 1,000 pills. A related newspaper photo leads the Ku Klux Klan to boycott Cash concerts under the misguided premise that Cash's wife is black
Feb 2, 1966
Milburn Stone and Ken Curtis, of "Gunsmoke," are the first to perform at the Astrodome as part of the Houston Livestock & Rodeo. Over the next 35 years, Reba McEntire, Charley Pride and George Strait all play to more than 1 million at the rodeo
Mar 10, 1966
Rock musician Edie Brickell is born in Oak Cliff, Texas. In 1992, she marries singer/songwriter Paul Simon, who authored a pair of country hits, "The Boxer" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Apr 26, 1966
Keyboard player Jeff Huskins is born in Arlington, Texas. He replaces Brady Seals as a member of Little Texas in 1994 and makes his first recordings with the band for its "Greatest Hits." He also records with Clint Black and Chely Wright and forms a record label, Vivaton, in 2004
May 10, 1966
Janis Joplin begins her second pilgrimage from Texas to San Francisco, where she eventually establishes herself. Her 1970 recording of "Me And Bobby McGee" will rank among country's 500 top singles in a Country Music Foundation book
Jun 11, 1966
Singer/songwriter Bruce Robison is born in Bandera, Texas. Finding an artistic home in alternative-country, he nets commercial success as the songwriter of Tim McGraw's "Angry All The Time" and The Dixie Chicks' "Travelin Soldier"
Jun 15, 1966
Guitarist Michael Britt is born in Fort Worth, Texas. He joins Lonestar, which claims the Academy of Country Music's Top New Group honor in 1995. The band's single "Amazed" takes a pair of ACM trophies in 2000
Jul 1, 1966
Slim Willet dies of a heart attack at Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene, Texas. He wrote the classic "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes," a Top 10 hit in 1952 and '53 for Willet, Skeets McDonald, Ray Price and Red Foley
Jul 4, 1966
George Jones opens his first amusement park--the George Jones Rhythm Ranch, in Vidor, Texas--and begins a friendship with guest performer Merle Haggard
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