About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • April 19, 2024 CDT

  • Time
  • This Month Help
  • Recreates a specific month in country music history
  •    
    • May 1, 1989
    Warner Bros. releases Holly Dunn's "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me"
    May 1, 1989
    MCA releases Reba McEntire's album "Sweet Sixteen"
    May 1, 1989
    Birmingham resident Wanda Huff files assault charges against Bill Monroe, claiming he hit her in the mouth with a Bible during an argument. Monroe associates characterize her as a stalker, and the charges are shortly dismissed
    May 1, 1989
    Universal Records releases The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2." Guests include Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, Levon Helm, John Denver, Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn, Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby
    May 2, 1989
    Songwriter Bennie Benjamin dies at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He authored the Charlie Rich hit "I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore," as well as "I'll Never Be Free," a hit originally for Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie Ford and again for Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius
    May 2, 1989
    Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson perform a free concert for 15,000 NASA employees at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The event is shot for an NBC-TV special, "Kenny, Dolly & Willie: Something Inside So Strong"
    May 2, 1989
    Reprise releases Kenny Rogers' album "Something Inside So Strong"
    May 3, 1989
    Johnny Cash checks into American Hospital in Paris, France, with chest problems
    May 3, 1989
    Capitol releases New Grass Revival's "Callin' Baton Rouge." The song later becomes a hit for Garth Brooks
    May 4, 1989
    Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White have a son, Lucas Buck Skaggs
    Displaying : 1 - 10 of 61 / Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7



  • 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!