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  • Jul 10, 1965
    Connie Smith's self-titled debut reaches #1 on the Billboard country albums chart
    Jul 10, 1965
    Wreck on the highway: Roy Acuff, guitarist June Stearns and steel player Shot Jackson are injured in a near-fatal car crash in east Tennessee. Acuff has a pair of pelvic fractures and a broken collarbone. Stearns never returns to the band
    Jul 10, 1965
    Ken Mellons is born in Kingsport, Tennessee. The deep-voiced singer earns a 1994 hit with "Jukebox Junkie"
    Jul 11, 1965
    One day after Roy Acuff was injured in a near-fatal car accident, fellow Grand Ole Opry member Mother Maybelle Carter is likewise in a car wreck in Ohio
    Jul 12, 1965
    Capitol releases Sonny James' "Behind The Tear"
    Jul 12, 1965
    Columbia releases Johnny Cash's "The Sons Of Katie Elder"
    Jul 12, 1965
    Decca releases Kitty Wells' "Meanwhile, Down At Joe's"
    Jul 13, 1965
    Songwriter Neil Thrasher is born in Birmingham. After a short career in the duo Thrasher Shiver, he writes Randy Houser's "How Country Feels," Rascal Flatts' "Fast Cars And Freedom" and Jason Aldean's "Fly Over States," among others
    Jul 15, 1965
    Loretta Lynn becomes a grandmother at age 33 when her daughter, Betty Sue, gives birth to Loretta Lynn Shreeve at Nashville's Madison Hospital
    Jul 16, 1965
    Cyndi Hoelzle is born in San Leandro, California. Instrumental in the creation of the first Americana music chart, she marries singer/songwriter Radney Foster

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