Keith Whitley

2011 - Eric Church gets a gold single for "Homeboy".

1955 - Keith Whitley is born in Sandy Hook, Kentucky.

2011 - Taylor Swift's "Mean" video has its world premiere on CMT.

2011 - Carrie Underwood makes her movie acting debut,

Most artists record success by the number of "weeks" on the chart.  Not Willie Nelson.

2001 - Rascal Flatts' "Easy" video, featuring Natasha Bedingfield, debuts on CMT.   2009 - Atlantic releases The Zac Brown Band's "Toes" to radio.   1995 - "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" puts John Michael Montgomery at the top spot on the Billboard country chart.   ...

2011 – Joe Nichols teamed up with Billy Bob’s in Texas to help victims of the tsunami and earthquake that hit Japan one month earlier. Nichols’ fans were offered a special $10 wristband to attend his performance at the Fort Worth venue...

2011 - Carrie Underwood makes her movie acting debut as Tristar's "Soul Surfer" reaches theaters.   2006 - Rascal Flatts starts a four-week stay at #1 in Billboard with "What Hurts The Most".   2004 - Baseball's San Diego Padres play their first game at the city's new Petco Park. Rhett Ak...

2010 - Trace Adkins signs a recording deal with Toby Keith's Show Dog-Universal Music during a press conference at BMI in Nashville.

2009 - Atlantic releases The Zac Brown Band's "Toes" to radio.

2008 - Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney and Tiffany Fallon have a son, Jagger Donovan Rooney, in Nashville.

On this day in 2010, Taylor Swift emailed Nashville’s Tennessean newspaper to express her thoughts on the flood… she wrote, "I have always been proud to be a Nashvillian, but especially now, seeing the love that runs through this city when there are people in crisis."