• 1970: B.J. THOMAS earned a gold record for Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.
• 1982: DOLLY PARTON’s The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, co-starring Burt Reynolds, had its Nashville premiere.
• 1995: SHANIA TWAIN got her first No. 1 single with Any Man Of Mine.
• 2008: The Deluxe Edition of SUGARLAND’s Love On The Inside was released. Hits included All I Want To Do, It Happens and Already Gone.
• 2011: WILLIE NELSON received the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance Visionary Award at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco.
• 2011: The ELI YOUNG BAND got its first gold single for Crazy Girl.
• 2015: DARON NORWOOD (Cowboys Don’t Cry) was found dead in his Hereford, Texas apartment by his landlord. Ten years prior Norwood announced he was quitting his career as a country singer because of his addiction to alcohol.
• 2018: MIRANDA LAMBERT and her dog Delta appeared on the cover of Parade magazine alongside three other celebrities involved in animal rescue: Andy Cohen, Carrie Ann Inaba and George Clooney.
WILLIE NELSON’s Farm Aid will be a live and in-person format this year. It’s been scheduled for September 25 at the Xfinity Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut. Performing: Jamey Johson, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, gospel star Bettye LaVette, Allison Russell, Particle Kid, and Ian Mellencamp.
… They’ll be joined as always by the Farm Aid board members: Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, and the latest member, Margo Price, who joined in April.
JASON ALDEAN on Wednesday teased an upcoming duet called If I Didn’t Love You, but didn’t reveal who his co-singer is. Instead, there’s a question mark, forcing fans to speculate on who might accompany him when the song comes out on Friday.
MIRANDA LAMBERT took to social media to send a shoutout to the Waco, Texas hat shop Standard Hat Works, which she recently visited. Miranda posted a photo of herself with the shop’s owner, Cameron, while wearing a hat with a cactus design. According to the singer’s caption on the post, she took home quite the shopping haul from the store.
DIERKS BENTLEY got an incredible bicycle as a gift from his famous bike endurance trainer friend Robbie Ventura. Dierks said that bike’s worth about $6,400.
T. GRAHAM BROWN and COLIN RAYE have signed on to perform at the 2021 Mayberry Days festival in Mount Airy, North Carolina. The September 21-26 event celebrates the Andy Griffith Show and its stars.
