Mar 10, 1920
Kenneth “Jethro” Burns is born in Conasauga, Tennessee. His comedic duo Homer & Jethro joins the Country Music Hall of Fame after making numerous satirical records, including a conversion of “The Battle Of New Orleans” to “The Battle Of Kookamonga”
Mar 10, 1932
Guitar player Leon Rhodes is born in Dallas, Texas. He gains recognition as the longtime lead guitarist with Ernest Tubb’s Texas Troubadours, but also plays on hits by Waylon Jennings, Moe Bandy and George Strait
Mar 10, 1933
Country TV/radio host Ralph Emery is born in McEwen, Tennessee. After establishing himself as a fixture on Nashville’s WSM Radio, he spends 10 years as the host of TNN’s daily country talk show, “Nashville Now.” He is inducted intjo the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007
Mar 10, 1938
Singer/songwriter/musician Norman Blake is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. An adept folk and acoustic player, he tours as a sideman with Johnny Cash, performing on a number of his hits, including “Understand Your Man” and “What Is Truth”
Mar 10, 1947
Songwriter Alex Harvey is born in Dyersburg, Tennessee. His credits include Tanya Tucker’s “Delta Dawn,” Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Somebody New” and T. Graham Brown’s “Hell And High Water”
Mar 10, 1962
Country Music Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner earns his first #1 single with “Misery Loves Company,” written by Jerry Reed
Mar 10, 1963
The funeral for Patsy Cline draws 25,000 onlookers in Winchester, Virginia, who watch as her body is driven from Jones Funeral Home to the burial grounds, Shenandoah Memorial Park
Mar 10, 1963
Record producer Rick Rubin is born in Long Beach, New York. After working with such acts as The Beastie Boys and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, he produces Johnny Cash’s latter-day recordings and The Dixie Chicks’ album “Taking The Long Way”
Mar 10, 1971
Daryle Singletary is born in Cairo, Georgia. With a voice compared to Keith Whitley, he notches a number of mid-1990s hits, including “I Let Her Lie” and “Too Much Fun”
Mar 10, 1973
Tammy Wynette tops the Billboard country singles chart with “‘Til I Get It Right”
Mar 10, 1979
Invited by Porter Wagoner, R&B legend James Brown plays the Grand Ole Opry, lacing his 17-minute set with the country songs “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “Tennessee Waltz.” Jean Shepard complains; Barbara Mandrell says the appearance is overdue
Mar 10, 1986
MCA releases the Waylon Jennings album “Will The Wolf Survive”
Mar 10, 1987
The Oak Ridge Boys ask William Lee Golden to leave the group
Mar 10, 1988
Andy Gibb, younger brother of The Bee Gees, dies in England, after years of chemical abuse. Tanya Tucker, who had a short-term romance with him in 1983, has the news delivered to her the next day while she’s in the Betty Ford Center for chemical abuse
Mar 10, 1989
J.P. Pennington announces he’s leaving Exile
Mar 10, 1990
Patty Loveless’ “Chains” wraps up the #1 slot on the Billboard country singles chart
Mar 10, 1991
Randy Travis sings “Point Of Light” live for the first time for president George Bush at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. Also appearing: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Alan Jackson, Ricky Skaggs, Clint Black, Tammy Wynette, Alabama, K.T. Oslin and The Statlers
Mar 10, 1992
RCA releases Aaron Tippin’s “Read Between The Lines” album
Mar 10, 1992
RCA releases Vince Gill’s “I Never Knew Lonely” album
Mar 10, 1994
Clint Black is named Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association, while Dennis Linde is Songwriter; and “The Song Remembers When” is Song of the Year
Mar 10, 1995
Collin Raye records “One Boy, One Girl” in Nashville
Mar 10, 2000
Vince Gill marries Christian singer Amy Grant in Nashville, with about 75 people attending. Grant takes her vows barefoot
Mar 10, 2003
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines tells a London concert audience, “We’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” The audience cheers, but many U.S. radio stations stop playing Chicks music as the nation prepares for war in Iraq
Mar 10, 2008
Guitarist Barry “Byrd” Burton dies of leukemia at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. A former member of The Amazing Rhythm Aces, he played on “Third Rate Romance” and the Don Williams hit “Tulsa Time,” among others
