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2009 - Big Machine releases Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" to radio.   2006 - A resolution is introduced in Savannah, Tennessee, to rename part of Pickwick Street as Darryl Worley Way.   2005 - Willie Nelson's attorney sends a Texas senator a letter declining to have a toll road named for the singer. Nelson l...

Good news for Lonestar fans. Next year, the band’s original lead singer, Richie McDonald, will return to the group — best know for hits ‘Amazed’  and ‘I’m Already There’ — to mark 20 years of making music together. In addition to a tour to commemorate their anniversary, Lonestar will also release a brand-new album with vocals by McDonald.

2007 - Billy Currington travels to Hawaii to begin therapy for anger issues related to the abuse he suffered from a stepfather in childhood. The abuser was actually the subject of Currington's first hit, "Walk A Little Straighter"

2010 - Kellie Pickler gets engaged to "More Than A Memory" songwriter Kyle Jacobs on a beach in Florida.

On this day in 2010, Tim Mcgraw, Faith Hill, Darius Rucker, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum and Rascal Flatts performed for Acm Presents: Brooks & Dunn – The Last Rodeo, the tribute concert special honoring Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn.

On this day in 2010, Carrie Underwood told Fox News that she wouldn't be singing at her wedding to hockey player Mike Fisher… she said, "I won't sing, no. That's my job"… Underwood and her now husband can be seen almost nightly at predators games in Nashville.

Today is the 175th anniversary of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Through the years there have been thousands of great songs about Texas. We're featuring five after the bump.