2012 Taylor Swift's song "Mean" received the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards. Speak Now was also nominated for Best Country Album but lost to Lady Antebellum's Own the Night. Glenn Campbell appeared at the awards and sang "Rhinestone Cowboy&q...

2007 The Dixie Chicks won three awards at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles: Record of the Year and Song of the Year (both for "Not Ready to Make Nice," the latter shared with songwriter Dan Wilson) and Album of the Year (Taking the Long Way). Carrie Underwood took the Best New Artist Award and Bes...

2019 Winers at the Grammy Awards included: Album of the Year - Golden Hour (Kacey Musgraves), Best Country Solo Performance - "Butterflies" (Kacey Musgraves), Best Country Duo/Group Performance - "Tequila" (Dan + Shay), Best Country Song - "Space Cowboy" (Luke Laird, Shane McAnally, Kacey ...

1959 Mercury Records released "White Lightning" by George Jones, which became the first #1 single of his career. In his 1997 autobiography, I Lived To Tell It All, Jones mentions the fact that the recording process of "White Lightning" was extremely lengthy after he arrived for the recording session...

2012 Country singer Randy Travis apologized after being arrested on a charge of public intoxication outside a North Texas church. Denton County sheriff's spokesman Tom Reedy said police in the town of Sanger had arrested Travis after spotting a vehicle parked in front of a church and finding an open bottle of wine and ...