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    • Dec 9, 1932
    Billy Edd Wheeler is born in Whitesville, West Virginia. He scores a novelty hit in 1964 with "Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back." He also writes "Jackson" for Johnny Cash & June Carter, and "Coward Of The County" for Kenny Rogers
    Aug 15, 1963
    Billy Edd Wheeler records his original version of "Blistered," destined to become a 1969 hit for Johnny Cash
    Oct 8, 1963
    Billy Edd Wheeler records his original version of "Jackson," three years before Johnny Cash & June Carter record their award-winning performance
    Aug 31, 1964
    Billy Edd Wheeler records "Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back," a novelty that pays homage to an outhouse
    Jan 15, 1968
    Singer/songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler moves to Nashville a year after Johnny Cash & June Carter found a hit with his song "Jackson"
    Dec 10, 1983
    Lee Greenwood sings "I.O.U." and The Whites perform "Hangin' Around" on an episode of TV's "Hee Haw." The installment also features music by Ricky Skaggs and Billy Edd Wheeler 
    Aug 5, 1996
    Chet Atkins kicks off a series of Monday-night performances at Nashville's Caffe Milano. He's joined for the evening by Suzy Bogguss, songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler, fiddler Mark O'Connor and Alison Krauss, who sings "That's The Way Love Goes"
    Oct 1, 2000
    The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inducts Mac Davis, "Dreaming My Dreams With You" composer Allen Reynolds, "Jackson" author Billy Edd Wheeler and "A Lesson In Leavin'" songwriter Randy Goodrum
    Nov 16, 2007
    Little Jimmy Dickens heads the first class of 10 inductees in the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, honored at Charleston's Cultural Center Theater. Also added: Billy Edd Wheeler, Hazel Dickens, Johnnie Johnson, Molly O'Day and Blind Alfred Reed
    Oct 13, 2011
    Billy "Crash" Craddock, Clyde Moody, songwriters John D. Loudermilk and Billy Edd Wheeler and Christian singer Michael English are inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in Kannapolis
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