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  • May 21, 1956
    Brenda Lee signs her first recording contract, with Decca Records
    May 22, 1956
    After recording for several years in Dallas, Lefty Frizzell holds his first Nashville session at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio
    May 23, 1956
    Woody Guthrie is arrested for vagrancy in New Jersey. He is institutionalized at Greystone Park in Morris Plains, where he spends his next five years, suffering from Huntington's chorea
    May 26, 1956
    Champagne king and former country hitmaker Lawrence Welk joins Alice Lon on the cover of TV Guide
    May 28, 1956
    Capitol releases Faron Young's double-sided single, "Sweet Dreams" backed with "Until I Met You"
    May 28, 1956
    Studio musician Brent Rowan is born in Waxahachie, Texas. He wins the Academy of Country Music's Top Guitarist in 1989, first playing on John Conlee's "Friday Night Blues," then working with Alabama, Blake Shelton and Shania Twain, among others
    May 28, 1956
    Dobro player Jerry Douglas is born in Warren, Ohio. A member of Alison Krauss + Union Station, he plays on such country hits as Randy Travis' "Diggin' Up Bones," Sara Evans' "Born To Fly," Little Big Town's "Boondocks" and Chris Hillman & Roger McGuinn's "You Ain't Going Nowhere"
    May 31, 1956
    The John Wayne movie "The Searchers" opens in Lubbock. A frequent line from the film, "That'll be the day," inspires Buddy Holly to write a classic
    May 31, 1956
    Hank Snow records "Conscience I'm Guilty"

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