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Other ClassicCountry Music Singers / ON THIS DATE MARCH3rd IN TRADITIONAL AND CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY...

« on: March 03, 2010, 08:20:03 am »

2002=
GEORGE STRAIT plays the final Houston Livestock & Rodeo Show concert held at Houston's Astrodome, with more than 68,000 in attendance. He dedicates "Love Without End, Amen" to George and Barbara Bush, who are part of the crowd
2000=
TRACY LAWRENCE nets his second double-platinum album, for "Time Marches On"
1990=
WAYLON JENNINGS, WILLIE NELSON, JOHNNY CASH and KRIS KRISTOFFERSON perform at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at the Astrodome, kicking off their first concert tour as the Highwaymen
1984=
Exile gains its first #1 country hit with "Woke Up In Love"
1963=
PATSY CLINE gives her FINAL show, along with HAWKSHAW HAWKINS, COWBOY COPAS, DOTTIE WEST, BILLY WALKER, GEORGE JONES and WILMA LEE and STONE COOPER. Tickets are $1.50, and the money benefits the widow of late Kansas City deejay "Cactus Jack" Call

Hag Tour / HAD A BLAST AT THE CHICAGO-"HAG"- SHOW LAST WEEK!

« on: March 01, 2010, 10:23:33 am »

;)MAN O MAN WHAT A SHOW!!!! I soo enjoyed spending some ((((VALUABLE)))) TIME WITH THE HAG!!! Merle was in such good spirit and in excellent Health,,,He joked with us all day long...we ate breakfast together-spent some VERY SPECIAL TIME TOGETHER While he showed me some pointers on my fiddle...He's even gonna send me one of his old bows...he didn't like the feel of the bow that I'm using...I met up with a couple of my VERY GOOD FRIENDS.Helen and Dan from Cleveland, Oh...we all had a great time hanging out with our HERO-MENTOR-and FRIEND..MR.MERLE HAGGARD!!!A lot more shows have been added for this year, so check out his web site or go to bobbyroberts.com and get on the "HAGTRAIL"! We had such a great time with Kris Kristofferson also..Man what a great song writer...I'd almost forgotten what great songs he's written until he started to sang em...he's such a great country Icon also..he posed for pics with us and he was so nice and patient with us, his wife was there also.
Waiting in the building for 2 hours to meet the GREAT MERLE HAGGARD?..."JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE".Can you believe it??? MAN WHAT A GREAT TIME WE HAD..A threatning SNOW STORM DIDN'T CHANGE A THING!!!

Other ClassicCountry Music Singers / ON THIS DATE FEB 12th IN TRADITIONAL & CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY...

« on: February 12, 2010, 08:53:17 am »

2005=
EDDY ARNOLD, JERRY LEE LEWIS and The CARTER FAMILY are honored with Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards during a ceremony at Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel
2002=
Columbia releases "The Essential JOHNNY CASH." The two-disc set includes appearances by The CARTER FAMILY, JUNE CARTER CASH, MARTY ROBBINS, WAYLON JENNINGS, WILLIE NELSON and KRIS KRISTOFFERSON.
1998=
ALABAMA nets three multi-platinum albums: "Mountain Music" goes quintuple-platinum, "Roll On" hits quadruple-platinum, and "Greatest Hits, Volume III" reaches double-platinum
1986=
The Judds grab their second gold album, for "Rockin' With The Rhythm"
1983=
CRYSTAL GAYLE attains a #1 single in Billboard with the Rodney Crowell song "'Til I Can Gain Control Again"
1963=
BUCK OWENS records "Act Naturally" at the Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood. The session also includes his first attempt at "My Heart Skips A Beat"
1944=
MOE BANDY born in Marion, Mississippi. He thrives as a honky-tonk singer during the late-1970s and early-'80s, when crossover music is in vogue. His string of hits includes a load of cheatin'-themed singles and several good-ol'-boy duets with Joe Stampley

Other ClassicCountry Music Singers / ON THIS DATE FEB 11th IN CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY..

« on: February 11, 2010, 09:07:01 am »

;)1989=
Alabama's "Song Of The South" hits #1 on the Billboard country chart
1984=
MERLE HAGGARD reaches #1 on the Billboard country chart with the Lefty Frizzell song "That's The Way Love Goes"
1982=
Columbia releases WILLIE NELSON's "Always On My Mind"
1967=
LORETTA LYNN makes her first appearance at #1 in Billboard with "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)"

Hag Tour / Re: Hag In Renfro Valley, KY

« on: February 10, 2010, 09:55:53 am »

I WILL BE THERE!!!Maybe we can meet somewhere and have breakfast and "MEET IN PERSON" I think this will be great!

Other ClassicCountry Music Singers / ON THIS DATE FEB 10th IN TRADITIONAL & CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY...

« on: February 10, 2010, 09:52:47 am »

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2002=
Nashville observes Joe Diffie Day as the singer hosts his 10th annual Country Steps In For First Steps concert. On the bill: The Judds, Trace Adkins, Ricky Skaggs, Cyndi Thomson and comedian Cledus T. Judd
1996=
BlackHawk performs "Every Once In A While" and "Like There Ain't No Yesterday" during its Grand Ole Opry debut
1986=
The "Highwayman" album is certified gold for WAYLON JENNINGS, WILLIE NELSON, JOHNNY CASH and KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
1979=
EDDIE RABBITT begins a three-week stay at #1 on Billboard's country chart with the theme from the Clint Eastwood movie "Every Which Way But Loose"
1978=
RONNIE MILSAP pulls in his first gold album, for "It Was Almost Like A Song"
1960=
Singer-songwriter-musician Lionel Cartwright born in Gallipolis, Ohio. His easy-going vocals land on four Top 10 singles from 1989-1991, the biggest coming with "Leap Of Faith" urple][/color][/font][/i][/b]

Announcements / Re: Merle Haggard Forum:Now On Google!!!!

« on: February 10, 2010, 09:41:20 am »

YIPPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.WE'RE OFF AND RUNNIN!

Hag Tour / Re: Merle and Kris Kristofferson

« on: February 08, 2010, 06:22:06 pm »

;)I plan on being at the CHICAGO SHOW on the 21st..Is any one else gonna be there?? Let me know and we can meet up somewhere ok?

The Strangers! / Re: Greatest Honky Tonk Band

« on: January 24, 2010, 01:21:25 pm »

I totally agree...thanks.

Other ClassicCountry Music Singers / HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GREAT EARL SCRUGGS....

« on: January 06, 2010, 10:18:09 am »

Earl Eugene Scruggs
Born January 6, 1924.. noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style (now called Scruggs style) on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Although other musicians had played in 3-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by BILL MONROE to fill the banjo slot in the "Blue Grass Boys". Scruggs built on earlier styles to develop a truly new and readily identifiable style, involving: unprecedented smoothness, syncopation, and uninterrupted flow; a large vocabulary of unique and original licks; blues and jazz phrases, evident in backup and in solos such as "Foggy Mountain Special;" and an overall coherency and polish that other stylists lacked, which inspired imitation by newer generations of banjo pickers.

Scruggs was born in Shelby, North Carolina to Georgia Lula Ruppe and George Elam Scruggs. Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in late 1945 and his syncopated, three-finger picking style quickly became a sensation. In 1948 Scruggs and guitarist LESTER FLATT left Monroe's band and formed Flatt and Scruggs. In 1969, Flatt and Scruggs broke up and Scruggs started a new band, the Earl Scruggs Revue, featuring several of his sons.

On September 24, 1962 singer Jerry Scoggins, Flatt, and Scruggs recorded The Ballad of Jed Clampett for the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies which was released October 12, 1962. The theme song became an immediate country music hit and was played at the beginning and end of each episode. Flatt and Scruggs appeared in several episodes as family friends of the Clampetts in the following years. In their first appearance, season 1 episode 20, they portray themselves in the show and perform both the theme song and Pearl Pearl Pearl.

Flatt and Scruggs won a Grammy Award in 1969 for Scruggs' instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". They were inducted together into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1989, Scruggs was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship. He was an inaugural inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1991.

In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo (Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin. The album, Earl Scruggs and Friends, also featured artists such as John Fogerty, Elton John, Sting, JOHNNY CASH, Don Henley, Travis Tritt, and Billy Bob Thornton. Earl Scruggs and Friends (MCA Nashville, 2001).

On February 13, 2003, Scruggs received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That same year, he and Flatt were ranked #24 on CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music.

Scruggs' wife and manager Louise Scruggs died on February 2, 2006 at the age of 78 at Nashville, Tennessee's Baptist Hospital following a lengthy illness.

On September 13, 2006, Scruggs was honored at Turner Field in Atlanta as part of the pre-game show for an Atlanta Braves home game. Organizers (Banjo.com) set a world record for the most banjo players (239) playing one tune together (Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Breakdown).

On February 10, 2008, Scruggs was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

Other ClassicCountry Music Singers / ON THIS DATE-JAN 6TH IN TRADITIONAL AND CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY..

« on: January 06, 2010, 09:24:21 am »

1983=
Rosanne Cash reels in her first gold album, for "Seven Year Ache"
1979=
DON WILLIAMS reaches #1 on the Billboard country chart with "Tulsa Time"
1958=
JERRY LEE LEWIS sews up the #1 spot on the Billboard country chart with "Great Balls Of Fire"
1957=
ELVIS PRESLEY makes his final appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," singing seven songs: "Hound Dog," "Love Me Tender," "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Peace In The Valley," "Too Much" and "Don't Be Cruel"
1924=
EARL SCRUGGS born in Flintville, North Carolina. The banjo player joins Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, then forms a duo with Lester Flatt on the way to the Country Music Hall of Fame as one of bluegrass' significant early pillars

Other ClassicCountry Music Singers / ON THIS DATE JANUARY 5TH IN TRADITIONAL AND CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY

« on: January 05, 2010, 11:14:34 am »

1990=
William Lee Golden, best-known for his work with The Oak Ridge Boys, marries former Miss Tennessee Brenda Kaye Hall
1985=
GEORGE STRAIT posts a #1 single in Billboard with "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind"
1983=
Warner Bros. releases JOHN ANDERSON's "Swingin'"
1980=
Kenny Rogers kicks off a three-week run at the top of the Billboard country chart with "Coward Of The County"
1923=
SAM PHILLIPS born in Florence, Alabama. The founder of Sun Records, he plays an important role in the development of rockabilly by signing and producing such acts as ELVIS, JOHNNY CASH, CARL PERKINS and JERRY LEE LEWIS