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Not quite everything Garth Brooks touches turns to gold. Twenty-four years ago today, on March 19, 2000, the singer wrapped up spring training with the New York Mets, without securing a spot on the team. In high school, Brooks played both football and baseball; he also ran track and field, and received a track scholarship to Oklahoma State University. After moving to Nashville and growing and growing his country music career to superstar level, Brooks signed with the San Diego Padres for spring training, in both 1998 and 1999. However, when the Padres didn’t offer him a contract, Brooks switch...
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Fifty-four years ago today (March 14, 1970), Merle Haggard scored his ninth No. 1 hit with his single “The Fightin’ Side of Me.” The song comes from his live album of the same name. Haggard wrote “The Fightin’ Side of Me” in response to the military action in Vietnam: “Runnin’ down the way of life / Our fightin’ men have fought and died to keep,” he sings in the tune. “If you don’t love it, leave it / Let this song I’m singin’ be a warnin’ / If you’re runnin’ down my country, man / You’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.” “The Fightin’ Side of Me” stayed at the top of the charts for three w...
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Thirty-eight years ago today (March 7, 1986) was a big day for Randy Travis. It was on that date that the singer made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry, three months before his freshman album, Storms of Life, was released on Warner Bros. Travis, who was introduced during his Opry debut by Little Jimmy Dickens, sang the Hank Williams classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” … and he must have left quite an impression on the audience because he wrapped up his pivotal year by joining the esteemed hall. Travis became an official Opry member on Dec. 20, 1986; he was introduced that night by Ricky Skaggs...
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Sixty-one years ago today (March 5, 1963) was a tragic day for the country music community: It was on that date that Patsy Cline, along with Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, was killed in a plane crash while on her way home from a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kan.Country Music Memories: Although she was ill with the flu, Cline performed three shows at Kansas City’s Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on March 3, to raise money for the family of DJ Jack “Cactus” Call, who had been killed in a car crash that January. Also among the performers at the benefit shows were Hawkins, Copas, George ...
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Forty-one years ago today, on March 4, 1983, George Jones wed Nancy Sepulvado. The ceremony took place at the home of Jones’ sister, Helen Scroggins, in Woodville, Texas. The marriage was the fourth for Jones. Previously, he had been married to Dorothy Bonvillion, Shirley Ann Corley and Tammy Wynette, the last of whom he divorced in 1975. But it was Sepulvado, his wife until his death in 2013, whom Jones considered his soulmate. “No teenage boy ever fell harder for a girl than I fell for Nancy Sepulvado,” Jones said in his 1996 autobiography, I Lived to Tell It All (quote via Country Weekly). ...
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Fifty-six years ago today (March 1, 1968) was a day of celebration for Johnny Cash and June Carter: It was on that date that the couple wed in Franklin, Ky. The two were married just one week after Cash proposed while they were performing together in London, Ontario, Canada, on Feb. 22. Cash and Carter initially met in 1956, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, while Cash was still married to his first wife, Vivian Liberto. Cash and Liberto’s divorce was finalized by the end of 1967, and the country icon didn’t waste any time in asking Carter to become his wife. Merle Kilgore, who co-wrote Cash’s ...
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Thirty-four years ago today (Feb. 27, 1990) was a life-changing day for Alan Jackson: It was on that date that the singer’s debut album, Here in the Real World, was released on Arista Records. Here in the Real World spawned four Top 5 singles, including its title track and Jackson’s first No. 1 hit, “I’d Love You All Over Again.” The Georgia native wrote or co-wrote nine of the 10 songs on the project, which was co-produced by Keith Stegall and Scott Hendricks. Jackson signed his recording contract with Arista on June 26, 1989, shortly after the record label opened its doors. He was part of th...
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Fifty-six years ago today (Feb. 22, 1968), Johnny Cash was one happy man. It was on that date that the Man in Black proposed to his then-girlfriend, June Carter, while they were performing together onstage in London, Ontario, Canada. Cash and Carter first met backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1956, when Carter was singing background vocals for Elvis Presley. At the time, Cash was married to his first wife, Vivian Liberto, but after having four daughters together, Liberto divorced Cash, citing his ongoing addiction issues and alleged affairs as the reasons for the split. Cash and Liberto’s div...
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Thirty-seven years ago today, on Feb. 19, 1987, Willie Nelson‘s Red Headed Stranger film premiered in Austin, Texas. The movie, which also starred Morgan Fairchild and Katharine Ross, was based on Nelson’s 1975 album of the same name. In Red Headed Stranger, Nelson plays Rev. Julian Shay, who travels to Montana to preach, along with his wife, Raysha Shay (played by Fairchild). When his wife leaves him for another man, Julian Shay guns her down … and then tries to find redemption for his actions. William D. Wittliff wrote and directed Red Headed Stranger; he also co-produced the project with Ne...
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Fifty years ago today (Feb. 19, 1974) was a bittersweet day for Dolly Parton: It was on that date that the singer announced that she was ending her long-standing partnership with Porter Wagoner, after more than seven years together. Parton began working with Wagoner after he offered her a coveted spot on both his weekly TV program, The Porter Wagoner Show, and in his traveling show, in 1967. The two also recorded several albums together, including Just the Two of Us and Together Always. She decided to part ways with him in order to launch out completely on her own. “I was trying to get away on...
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