2015
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Capitol releases Luke Bryan's "Strip It Down" to radio
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2010
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Taylor Swift's "Fifteen" receives an MTV Video Music Awards nomination for Best Female
Video pitting her against Beyonce, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry
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1999
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Patsy Cline receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1991
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Johnny Lee makes his Grand Ole Opry debut
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1991
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Trisha Yearwood's name appears at #1 in Billboard for the first time with her single "She's In Love
With The Boy"
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1985
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Alabama works its way to #1 on the Billboard country chart with "Forty Hour Week (For A Livin')"
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1976
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Fiddler Jimmy De Martini is born in Marietta, Georgia. He joins The Zac Brown Band, named Best New
Artist during the Grammy Awards in 2010. Behind hits such as "Chicken Fried," "Jump Right In" and "Homegrown,"
the boundary-pushing band rises to a stadium-level live act
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1966
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Lonestar's keyboard player Dean Sams is born in Garland, Texas. Winners of the Academy of Country
Music's Best New Group or Duo for 1995, the band earns hits with "Tequila Talkin'," "No News" and the
pop crossover single "Amazed"
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1953
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Songwriter/guitarist/producer Randy Scruggs is born to Earl Scruggs in Nashville. Among the projects
he plays on are Miranda Lambert's "Automatic," George Strait's "Heartland," Vince Gill's "Go Rest
High On That Mountain" and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2"
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1924
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Gordon Stoker, of The Jordanaires, is born in Gleason, Tennessee. The quartet sings back-up on singles
by Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers, Jimmy Dean and Tammy Wynette, among others, gaining enrollment in the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2001
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