September 27
The #97 mail train crashes on the Southern Railway outside Danville, VA in 1903. It inspired Vernon Dalhart's early... Read More.
Stories tagged with: 27
August 27
Aug 27, 1924
Oliver "Mooney" Lynn is born in Kentucky. He later marries Loretta Lynn and inspires her rise as a country singer
Aug 27, 1925
Carter... Read More.
July 27
Jul 27, 1920
Homer Haynes, of Homer & Jethro, is born in Knoxville, Tennessee. For nearly 40 years beginning in the '30s, the duo specializes... Read More.
June 27
Jun 27, 1924
Lloyd George--alias Ken Martin--is born in Haleyville, Alabama. A sideman for Eddy Arnold, he's the first to play "Lonzo" in the Grand... Read More.
May 27
May 27, 1921
Redd Stewart is born in Ashland City, Tennessee. He replaces Eddy Arnold as the featured vocalist in Pee Wee King's Golden West... Read More.
April 27
Apr 27, 1904: Syd Nathan is born in Cincinnati. He founds King Records, which nets country hits with Moon Mullican, The Delmore Brothers and... Read More.
March 27
Mar 27, 1929
Steel guitarist and background singer Don Warden is born in Mount Grove, Missouri. He appears on a string... Read More.
February 27
Marty Robbins' Don't Worry, featuring a signature fuzz guitar solo, hit #1 on the Billboard country chart in 1961.
January 27
Despite a protest by Heartbreak Hotel writer Mae Boren Axton, who questions his "moral character," Canadian Hank Snow became an... Read More.
December 27
Bob Luman died in Nashville from pneumonia in 1978. He developed a career that teetered between country and rockabilly, earning five hits... Read More.
November 27
Capitol released Glen Campbell's By The Time I Get To Phoenix album in 1967.
Jerry... Read More.
October 27
The Grand Ole Opry moved from WSM's Studio C to the Hillsboro Theater in Nashville in 1934.
A day after backing... Read More.
