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06/11/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: June 11, 1949
25 year-old Hank Williams was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry where he became the first performer to receive six encores. On August 11, 1952, he was dismissed and membership revoked for habitual drunkenness and missing shows.

06/10/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: June 10, 1987
Dwight Yoakam scored his second consecutive #1 album with Hillbilly Deluxe. Four of its tracks would find their way into the Top 40 of the Hot Country Singles chart in 1987 and 1988, all topping out in the lower half of the Top Ten. Chronologically, they were "Little Sister", "Little Ways" "Please, Please Baby" and "Always Late with Your Kisses".

06/08/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: June 8,

1951
Born on this day in Danville, Virginia, was guitarist and bluegrass musician Tony Rice. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rice died on December 25, 2020 age 69.

1976
The novelty song "One Piece at a Time" by Johnny Cash was at #1 on the Country chart. The song tells of a man who works at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan, building Cadillacs and knowing that he will never be able to afford one. He and a co-worker decide to steal a Cadillac, using their assembly line jobs to obtain the parts via salami slicing. He takes the small parts home hidden in his large lunchbox; larger parts are smuggled out in his co-worker's motor home.

06/07/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: June 7,

1933
Born on this day in Morrisville, Missouri Winford was Wynn Stewart, the country music performer who was one of the progenitors of the Bakersfield sound and an inspiration to such greats as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. Stewart scored the 1967 #1 hit "It's Such a Pretty World Today". Stewart suddenly died of a heart attack on July 17, 1985.

1969
The Johnny Cash Show premiered on ABC TV; from the Grand Ole Opry with special guest Bob Dylan and the regular cast, Tennessee Three, June Carter and Carter Family, Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins, stepping in for Luther Perkins, (who has just died accidentally in house fire). Bob Wootton became a permanent replacement in Cash's band, and a mainstay for the next three decades.

06/06/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: June 6

1943
Born on this day in Springhill, Webster Parish, Louisiana, was Joe Stampley, singer who had the 1973 US #1 hit with "Soul Dog" and the 1975 US #1 country hit with "Roll On Big Mama."

1971
Lynn Anderson was at #1 on the country music album chart with Rose Garden. The title track went on to top the country charts, where it stayed at the #1 position for five weeks, and reached #3 on the pop charts in 1971. Anderson received a Grammy Award for the song for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

06/05/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: June 5, 1993
Country singer Conway Twitty died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He had the 1958 US & UK #1 single "It's Only Make Believe". Until 2000, he held the record for the most #1 singles of any country act, with 45 #1's. He lived in Hendersonville, Tennessee, just north of Nashville, where he built a country music entertainment complex called Twitty City.

06/04/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: June 4, 1937
Born on this day in San Benito, Texas, was Country musician Freddy Fender who had the 1975 US Country #1 hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and is known for his work in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. Fender died on 14th October 2006.

06/02/2026

On this day in  H***y Tonk history: 1986
Randy Travis released his debut studio album Storms of Life which went on to peak at #1 on the US Country charts. The album features the singles "On the Other Hand" (previously recorded by Keith Whitley on his 1985 album L.A. to Miami), "1982", "Diggin' up Bones" and "No Place Like Home".

06/02/2026

05/31/2026

On this day in H***y Tonk history: May 31, 1938
Born on this day in Greenfield, Ohio, was Johnny Paycheck, (Donald Eugene Lytle), singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It", which was a US Country #1 in 1978. Paycheck died on February 19, 2003.