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Popular radio group The Billy McGinty Cowboy Band plays the third night of two weeks at the Orpheum Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Baker record The Newmarket Wreck for Vocalion Records in Bristol, Tennessee, USA, based on a horrific real-life train crash which took place on the Southern Railroad in 1904.
Art Kassel And His Kassels In The Air play in The Cooper Club, Henderson, Texas, USA.
Ruby Wright records Waltz Of The Wind, You Don't Know What You're Getting and Rummy Dumb Bunny, in King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
When Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins play at The National Guard Armory in Armory, Mississippi, USA, Cash tells Perkins a story about a friend with distinctive footwear which will result in the writing of the song Blue Suede Shoes.
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Singing cowboy Rex Allen is performing at the Days Of 47 Rodeo, Salt Lake City, USA.
The Everly Brothers play the fourth night of a week at The Frolics Club, Salisbury, Massachusetts, USA.
Country singer and radio DJ Pat Boyd performs live on the second night of the Automobile Show, Muskegon, Michigan, USA. Also on the bill are Don Holly And The Hi-Riders, George Hawkins and Bill Thompson.
Ray Charles plays at The Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
Frank Ifield plays the sixth night in a week of shows at The London Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Susan Maughan.
Ring Of Fire by Johnny Cash reaches No1 in the Billboard Country Singles Chart in the USA.
Chet Atkins records Freight Train for his 24th album Guitar Country, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The project will earn a Grammy nomination.
Country singer Lefty Frizzell records When It Rains The Blues, Saginaw Michigan and I'm Not The Man I'm Supposed To Be, for Columbia Records in the USA.
The Billy J. Kramer Pop Parade tour, featuring Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, The Caravelles, The Fourmost, Houston Wells, Tommy Quickly and The Marauders plays at The Theatre Royal, Nottingham, England, UK, Europe.
Country artist Judy Lynn is playing during ten nights at the Livestock Exposition And Rodeo, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
The Byrds play the seventh of thirteen nights at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Joe Tex flies to the UK for a two week promotional tour including tv appearances and nightclubs.
The Grateful Dead play at The Big Beat, Palo Alto, California, USA. This gig is considered to have been one of the shows which would come to be known as the Acid Tests.
Bill Howard, with producer Owen Bradley, records The People On The Other Side, Hope, Lonely Me, Lonely Me, and The Power Of A Woman, in Bradley's Barn, 722 Bender's Ferry Road, Mount Juliet, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley releases a new single, U.S. Male / Stay Away, Jope, on RCA Records in the USA.
Joan Baez, Big Brother And The Holding Company, The Everly Brothers, The Byrds, Country Joe And The Fish, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, The Mothers of Invention, Buffy St. Marie and Wilson Pickett play at The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California, USA.
The third day of the 12th Berkeley Folk Festival is held at the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. Artists appearing over the four days of the event include Doug Kershaw, The Youngbloods, Country Joe McDonald, John Fahey, Commander Cody, Charley Musselwhite, Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and Sam Hinton.
Bob Dylan releases a new single, A Fool Such As I, in Holland and West Germany on Columbia Records.
Brewer And Shipley play at The Red Rail, Nanuet, New York State, USA.
John Denver releases his fifteenth LP, It's About Time, on RCA Records in the USA.
Glenn Frey of The Eagles makes his acting debut in tv show Miami Vice in the USA. The episode is based on Frey's song Smuggler's Blues.
The Hank Wangford Band plays at The Arts Theatre, Belfast, Norhtern Ireland, UK, Europe.
Waylon Jennings Day is declared in the country singer's hometown of Littlefield, Texas, USA.
Rupert Robert "Bob" McNett , a former member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, dies of prostate cancer in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA.
Country music singer and songwriter Johnny Darrell dies aged 57 of diabetes in Kennesaw, Georgia, USA.
Carl Perkins dies of throat cancer, aged 65, at Jackson-Madison County Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee, USA, from throat cancer.
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Linda Ronstadt is barred from performing at the Aladdin Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, after she reads selections from Michael Moore's controversial book Fahrenheit 9/11 during her show.
Singer and songwriter June Carter Cash, who was also the wife of Johnny Cash, dies aged 73 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, of complications following heart-valve replacement surgery.
Garth Brooks is reported to have split with Capitol Records Nashville, his label since the start of his 100 million album-selling career in 1989.
The Duhks play at Komedia, Brighton, England, UK.
Eric Church makes his Grand Ole Opry debut in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, performing his debut single, How 'Bout You, and the Lead Belly song Black Betty.
Bob Dylan becomes the oldest person ever to enter the Billboard albums chart at No1 in the USA, with his 32nd studio album, Modern Times.
Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby tape a joint appearance on CMT Crossroads in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, during which they are joined by John Anderson for an unexpected rendition of Super Freak.
Garth Brooks, James Taylor, Jennifer Nettles, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and Sheryl Crow perform liveon the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during an inaugural event for president-elect Barack Obama in Washington DC, USA.
On her Fearless tour, Taylor Swift plays at The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
Los Angeles-based band Metro Station announces that it has split up for an indefinite period. the band includes Trace Cyrus, the brother of Miley Cyrus and son of country star Billy Ray Cyrus.
On her Fearless tour, Taylor Swift plays at The Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
Country-rock trio Lady Antebellum release their second studio album, Need You Now, in Japan.
Old Crow Medicine Show play at Penn's Peak, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA.
Toby Keith tops the newly-published Forbes magazine list of country music's top-paid artists for 2014 with estimated earnings of $65m. Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan make up the rest of the Country Music Top 5.
Devon Sproule plays in Java Joe's, San Diego, California, USA, with Matt The Electrician and Tim Easton.
Pictures are published showing Taylor Swift kissing actor Tom Hiddleston on a beach in Rhode Island, USA. The images are taken as proof that the pair are romantically linked, just two weeks after Swift broke up with deejay Calvin Harris.
At the 75th Golden Globe Awards event in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA, many of the participants dress in black to show support for Time's Up, a legal defense fund set up to support victims of sexual harassment and assault. This action will inspire a group of female country singers to come together as The Song Suffragettes and release a single entitled Time's Up.
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Don Everly, the remaining member of rock'n'roll duo the Everly Brothers, dies aged 84 at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. No cause of death is announced at the time.
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