June 27, 2012 2011 - Jake Owen's "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" video debuts on CMT.
2005 - Ralph Stanley undergoes a triple bypass operation in Virginia.
2001 - Jamie O'Neal has surgery in Nashville for a ruptured disc in her back, an injury aggravated during Fan Fair a week earlier.
This week is shaping up to be a pretty decent one in the lives and careers of Alan Jackson and newcomer Jana Kramer. Both of their brand new albums hit stores last Tuesday, and now the charts are in. Jackson’s ‘Thirty Miles West’ knocked Carrie Underwood‘s ‘Blown Away’ out of the No. 1 slot, while Kramer’s self-titled project comes in at No. 5, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
June 10, 2012 On this day in 1978, Willie Nelson's remake of Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia On My Mind" tops the Billboard country chart. Click through to see Willie and Ray Charles do the song the way it's supposed to be done.
June 7, 2012 It was a day just like any other in that East Tennessee trailer park until inspiration hits Don Gibson.
June 2, 2012 2011 - Shania Twain receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2010 - Faith Hill and Emmylou Harris perform at the White House as Paul McCartney receives the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize. Als
May 29, 2012 Jimmy Buffett is one of my all time favorite artists, so when he exploded onto the Country music scene with the help of some pretty big names, I was pretty excited. Check out this all star performance.
May 25, 2012 2011 - Scotty McCreery wins FOX's "American Idol," singing "Live Like You Were Dying" on the episode with Tim McGraw. Runner-up Lauren Alaina duets with Carrie Underwood on "Before He Cheats".
2005 - Carrie Underwood wins FOX-TV's "American Idol" competition with a performance of the Martina McBride hit "Independence Day." Sh
May 14, 2012 A reason to celebrate today as fan favorites Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert reach their first!
Alan Jackson has had great success as a tried and true country artist. Newer acts, like Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, have scored their success by straying from the old-fashioned country sound. But Jackson says he won’t go that route. The 53-year-old country legend plans to hold steady with his down South sound.
April 16, 2012 2010 - Alan Jackson gets a star at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2009 - Jamey Johnson earns a gold album for "That Lonesome Song".
2007 - Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" video swipes three trophies at the CMT Music Awards, held at Belmont University's Curb Events Center in Nashville. Among ot
Alan Jackson lives in a house full of women, and along with that territory comes a lot of delight — and some major drama every now and then. In a recent interview with radio station Q106 in Madison, Wisc., the country music veteran and proud father admitted to intimidating his daughters’ suitors when they come around.
In 2006, Alan Jackson took a break from his typical country sound and made ‘Precious Memories,’ an album of old Gospel favorites. The release was such a hit that it broke records, topping three Billboard charts the week of its release — Top Country Albums, Top Christian Albums and Top Christian and Gospel Albums. Now, six years later, the singer-songwriter has decided to re-release the set of hymns to make the album still available to his fans.
