• b. 1947 in Mitchell, SD (grew up near Wessington Springs, SD) - d. 5 Jul 2001 near Wessington Springs, SD (his motorcycle collied with a deer)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "In Heaven on a Horse" (1989, he wrote), "Yesterday's Rodeo Man" (2003, he wrote)
• founding member of The Company Cowboy Band (1969- ), "South Dakota, You've Been Good to Me" (1989, he wrote)
• songwriter
• rodeo rider, auctioneer, pilot
• father of singer, Dustin Evans

• b. 1942 in Providence, RI
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "The Wind, the River and You" (1967), "Spring" (#30c 1969), "Another Day, Another Mile, Another Highway" (#25c 1969), "Face of a Dear Friend" (#73c 1970), "If I'd Only Come and Gone" (#62c 1970), "Another New Day" (1973), "Sing Me a Love Song" (1974), "Love is (Chasin' Rainbows)" (1974)
• duet with Sally Flynn, "I Will" (1974)
• songwriter
• md. to singer, Sally Flynn (1974- )

• b. 1936 - d. 16 Feb 2002 in GA
• country/rock musician, instrument: guitar
• "Just a Dreamer" (1958), "Satellite Rock" (1958)
• founding member of Lucky Ward and the Mints
• with The Sandy Knox Showcase
• session musician with Barbi Benton, Chet Atkins, Buck Owens, Ernest Tubb, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr., Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and others
• songwriter

• b. 1955 in Sandy Hook, KY – d. 9 May 1989 in Nashville, TN (alcohol poisoning)
• country/bluegrass singer
• instrument: guitar
• * "Miami, My Amy" (#14c 1986), "Hard Livin'" (#10c 1986), "Homecoming '63" (#9c 1986), "Ten Feet Away" (#9c 1986), * "When You Say Nothing at All" (#1c 1988), * "Don't Close Your Eyes" (#1c 1988), "Some Old Side Road" (#16c 1987), * "Honky-Tonk Heart" (1988), * "I'm No Stranger to the Rain" (#1c 1989, CMA single of the year 1989), * "(I Wonder) Do You Think of Me" (#1c 1989), "It Ain't Nothin'" (#1c 1989), * "Between an Old Memory and Me" (1989), "Talk to Me, Texas" (1989), "Tennessee Courage" (1989), "I'm Over You" (#3c 1990), * "Til a Tear Becomes a Rose" (#13c 1990), * "Tell Lorrie I Love Her" (1990), "Wherever You Are Tonight" (#75c 1995, he co-wrote)
• with J.D. Crowe and the New South (1978, 1982), "Will You Be Lonesome, Too?" (1978), "My Window Faces the South" (1978), "Rose-Colored Glasses" (1982)
• with The Clinch Mountain Boys (1970-73, 1975-76), "Katy Daley" (1971), "Bright Morning Star" (1972), "Death is Only a Dream" (1972), "Step Out in the Sunshine" (1972), "Those Two Blue Eyes" (1972), "How Far to Little Rock?" (1973)
• The Clinch Mountain Boys were also known as The Stanley Brothers
• duet with Earl Thomas Conley, "Brotherly Love" (#2c 1991)
• duet with Lorrie Morgan (her voice overdubbed), "Til a Tear Becomes a Rose" (#13c 1990)
• songwriter
• md. to Lorrie Morgan (1986-89, his death)
• had problems with alcohol and cocaine
• see Keith Whitley on Wikipedia

• b. 1961 in Ontario, Canada
• country singer
• instruments: guitar, drums
• "A New Kind of Love" (#32c 1990), "Take it Like a Man" (#10c 1992), "He Would Be Sixteen" (#31c 1991), "One Good Man" (#57c 1994), "Nobody's Girl" (#50c 1996), "Shut up and Kiss Me" (2004)
• songwriter
• see Michelle Wright

• b. 1954 in Weaverville, CA
• country singer
• "Old Familiar Feeling" (#86c 1981, he wrote), "Alice in Dallas (Sweet Texas)" (#69c 1982), "Hungry Man's Dream" (1982), "The Look of a Lovin' Lady" (#68c 1984), "High Time" (1983)
• songwriter

• b. 1983 in Phoenix, AZ
• country/pop/rock singer
• instruments: guitar, mandolin, cello, piano, harmonica, drums
• "Everywhere" (#12 2001, she co-wrote), "All You Wanted" (#6 2002, she co-wrote), "Goodbye to You" (#21 2002, she co-wrote), "Are You Happy Now?" (#16 2002, she co-wrote)
• duet with Carlos Santana, "Game of Love" (#5 2002)
• founding member of The Wreckers, "Leave the Pieces" (#34, #1c 2006), "My, Oh My" (#87, #9c 2006, she co-wrote), "Tennessee" (#33c 2006), "Different Truck, Same Loser" (2007)
• songwriter
• md. to bass player, Teddy Landau (2004- )

• b. 1923 Maces Springs, VA - d. 22 Jan 2006 in Kingsport, TN (Parkinson's disease and other illnesses)
• country/folk singer
• instrument: autoharp
• "Just Another Broken Heart" (1939), "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" (1939), "I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow" (1972), "Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1972), "Waltz, Kitty, Waltz" (1972), "Dark and Stormy Weather" (1972), "Heartbreaking Waltz" (1972)
• session musician with Mike Seeger, and others
• daughter of A. P. and Sara Carter
• see The Carter Family

• b. 1916 in Lamar, CO - d. 28 Apr 1991 in Clovis, CA
• country/swing singer (baritone)
• "Hanna Lee" (1952), "The Call of the Faraway Hills" (1953), "Cottonwood" (1956), "Wedding Day" (1956), "Kiss and Run Lover" (1958), "Five Years" (1958)
• with Sons of the Pioneers (1949-52, 1955- , replaced Tim Spencer), "Room Full of Roses" (#26, #10c 1949), "The Timber Trail" (1949), "Santa Fe, New Mexico" (1949), "Wagons West" (1950), "Little White Cross" (1950), "Echoes from the Hills" (1951), "The Tennessee Rock and Roll" (1955), "A Fiddle, a Rifle, an Axe and a Bible" (1958), "Blue Shadows on the Trail" (1959), "Riders in the Sky" (1959), "San Antonio Rose" (1968), "I'll Hold You in My Heart" (1968), "Pretty Painted Ladies" (1976)
• The Sons of the Pioneers and Rex Allen, Jr., "Can You Hear Those Pioneers?" (#17c 1976)
• the Sons of the Pioneers backing Roy Rogers, "That Palomino Pal of Mine" (1949), "Stampede" (#8c 1950)
• with Tommy Dorsey's band
• cowboy actor

• b. 1967 in Norfolk, VA (grew up in Beaver Falls, PA)
• country singer
• founding member of The Ellis Brothers, "Goodbye Highway" (#70c 1992), "Those Letters" (1992), "No Sir" (#58c 1992, he co-wrote), "It's Bigger Than Both of Us" (1992), "Goodbye Eyes" (1994), "Kentucky Woman" (1994)
• songwriter
• brother of Darryl Ellis

• b. 1956 in Jeffersonville, IN
• country singer
• "Happy-Go-Lucky Morning" (#81c 1978), "Strawberry Fields Forever" (#76c 1978), "Just Stay With Me" (#76c 1979), "May I?" (#36c 1979), "It's Too Soon to Say Goodbye" (#56c 1979), "Six Weeks Every Summer" (2007), "I Believe in Someone" (2007), "You're My Hiding Place" (2007)

• b. 1937 in Clovis, NM
• country singer
• "Be My Bride" (1958), "I Guess I'll Never Learn" (#9c 1962), "This is the House" (#30c 1963), "Twenty Fools Ago" (1970)
• founding member of Charlie Phillips and the Sugartimers, "Sugartime" (1957, he co-wrote), "One Faded Rose" (1957) (Buddy Holly played guitar on both songs)
• songwriter
• music producer

• b. 1925 in Wichita, KS
• country/rockabilly singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" (#18, #3c 1957, Pop One-Hit Wonder, he wrote), "So You Think You've Got Troubles" (#3c 1957, he wrote), "Whole Lotta Woman" (#60, #15c 1958, he wrote), "Lucky Star" (1958), "Nothin' Needs Nothin' (Like I Need You)" (#11c 1958), "Half-Breed" (#66, #16c 1959), "The Wanderer in Me" (1963), "It Wasn't Enough" (1965), "A Long Way to Yesterday" (1965)
• duets with Mike Cowdery, "My Soul is an Eagle" (1981), "Glendale, California in the Summer of '63" (1981)
• songwriter
• served in the Navy during WWII
• he is 1/4 Cherokee

• b. 1942 in Salinas, CA
• country/rock singer
• instrument: keyboards
• "Quicksand" (#92c 1979, he wrote), "Break Away" (#85c 1980, he wrote), "I Wanna Do it Again" (#63c 1980, he wrote), "California Callin'" (2001), "I'm Still Lovin' You" (2001), "This is a Holdup" (2001), "Old Rock and Roller" (2007), "She's Leavin' for Dallas" (2007), "Soulmate" (2007), "Angelene" (2007)
• session musician with Tom T. Hall, Bobby Bare, Slim Whitman, and others
• songwriter
• music producer

• b. 1958 in Corpus Christi, TX (grew up in Bakersfield, CA)
• country/rock singer
• instruments: acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• founding member and lead singer of Big House (1995-2000), "Cold Outside" (#30c 1997, he co-wrote), "You Ain't Lonely Yet" (#57c 1997, he co-wrote), "Sunday in Memphis" (1997), "Faith" (#63c 1998, he co-wrote), "Don't Believe Everything You're Told" (1998), "Ain't Slept in Our Bed" (1998), "Lonely Shade of Blue" (2000), "Don't Do Me Any Favors" (2000)
• with New Frontier
• songwriter, wrote Eddie Money's "I Wanna Go Back" (#14 1986)
• music producer
• brother of Tanner Byrom

• b. 1946
• country/bluegrass singer
• instrument: mandolin
• with The Country Gentlemen (1969-72, 1981- , replaced John Duffey), "Going to the Races" (1969), "Yesterday" (1971), "The Girl Behind the Bar" (1972), "Secret of the Waterfall" (1972), "I've Gone Back to Being Me" (1981), "Night Ridin'" (1981), "Lonely Dancer" (1988), "Honey, Don't" (1989), "Cold Wind Blowing" (1990), "Nashville Jail" (1990), "Working on a Road" (1991), "Somewhere in Kansas" (1992), "Mountains and Memories" (1995), "Wild Rose" (1995), "Free As the Wind" (1997), "Ages and Ages Ago" (1997), "Sunrise" (1998), "Little Sparrow" (2001), "Katy Dear" (2003), "Many a Mile" (2003), "Blackberry Blossom" (2004)
• see Charlie Waller

• b. 1945/46 in Texas City, TX (grew up near Alta Loma, TX)
• country/rock singer
• instruments: guitar, trumpet
• "Red Sails in the Sunset" (#22c 1976), "Country Party" (#15c 1977), * "Lookin' for Love" (#5, #1c 1980, Pop One-Hit Wonder), "One in a Million" (#1c 1980), * "Prisoner of Hope" (#3c 1981), * "Pickin' up Strangers" (#3c 1981), * "Bet Your Heart on Me" (#54, #1c 1981), * "Rode Hard and Put up Wet" (#52 1981), "Highways Run Forever" (1981, he wrote), * "I've Come a Long Way (But I've Got a Long Way to Go)" (1981), * "When You Fall in Love" (#14c 1982), * "Be There for Me, Baby" (#10c 1982), "Cherokee Fiddle" (#10c 1982), "Hey, Bartender" (#2c 1983), "Sounds Like Love" (#6c 1983), "You Could Have Heard a Heart Break" (#1c 1984), "Rollin' Lonely" (#9c 1985), "They Never Had to Get Over You" (#19c 1985), "Treat Her Like a Lady" (1989), "Anni" (1989, he wrote), "Stand by Me" (2003), "Don't Tell Me (to Stop Loving You)" (2003), "If You're Ever Down in Dallas" (2003)
• duet with Lane Brody, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (#1c 1984)
• songwriter
• actor
• served in the Navy 4 years during the Vietnam War
• md. to actress, Charlene Tilton (1982-87)

• b. 1919 in Boaz, AL - d. 29 Oct 1992
• country/honky-tonk singer
• instrument: bass
• "For Old Times" (1961)
• founding member of The Maddox Brothers and Rose (1933-57), "Careless Driver" (1947), "Gosh, I Miss You All the Time" (1948), "At the First Fall of Snow" (1949), "I'm Sending You Daffydills" (1949), "Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down" (1950), "Just One Little Kiss" (1950), "Dark as a Dungeon" (1950), "Chocolate Ice Cream" (1950), "I'll Make Sweet Love to You" (1952), "These Wasted Years" (1953), "Kiss Me Like Crazy" (1953), "Poor Little Heartbroken Rose" (1954), "You've Been Talkin' in Your Sleep" (1954), "Second Choice" (1955), "Hey, Little Dreamboat" (1956), "Wish You Would" (1956), "Take a Gamble on Me" (1957), "1-2-3-4 Anyplace Road (Somewhere, USA)" (1957)

• b. 19?? in Dayton, OH
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• founding member of Baker and Myers, "These Arms" (#67c 1995, he co-wrote), "A Random Act of Senseless Kindness" (1995, he co-wrote), "Still Fallin'" (1995, he co-wrote), "Years from Here" (#48c 1995, he co-wrote), "Full Moon" (1995, he co-wrote), "Real Deal" (1995, he co-wrote), "Shoulder to Cry on" (1995, he co-wrote)
• leader and lead guitar with Eddy Raven's band (1981-90), "I Should Have Called" (#13c 1981), * "Who Do You Know in California?" (#11c 1981), "She's Playing Hard to Forget" (#10c 1982), * "Lovin' Arms and Lyin' Eyes" (1982), "I Got Mexico" (#1c 1984, he co-wrote), "Operator, Operator" (#9c 1985), "You Should Have Been Gone by Now" (#3c 1985, he co-wrote), "I Wanna Hear it from You" (#8c 1985), "Sometimes a Lady" (#3c 1986, he co-wrote), "You're Never Too Old for Young Love" (#3c 1987), "Shine Shine Shine" (#1c 1987), "I'm Gonna Get You" (#1c 1988), "Joe Knows How to Live" (#1c 1988), "In a Letter to You" (#1c 1989), "Bayou Boys" (#1c 1989), "Sooner or Later" (#6c 1990)
• backup singer and session musician with, Gary Morris, and others
• songwriter, wrote Lonestar's "I'm Already There" (#24, #1c 2001), "My Front Porch Looking in" (#23, #1c 2003); Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle's "You and I" (#1c #6 1982); co-wrote John Michael Montgomery's "I Swear" (#1c #1 1994); Alabama's "Once in a Lifetime" (#3c 1993), "T.L.C. A.S.A.P" (#7c 1994); Reba McEntire's "One Honest Heart" (#7c 1999)
• md. to Belinda Watkins (1980- )

• b. 1958 in Pensacola, FL (grew up near Greer, SC)
• country/honky-tonk singer
• instruments: guitar, banjo, harmonica
• "You've Got to Stand for Something" (#6c 1991, he co-wrote), "I Wonder How Far it is Over You" (#40c 1991, he co-wrote), "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" (#1c 1992, he co-wrote), "I Wouldn't Have it Any Other Way" (#5c 1991, he co-wrote), "My Blue Angel" (#7c 1993, he co-wrote), "Working Man's PhD" (#7c 1993, he co-wrote), "I Got it Honest" (#15c 1994, he co-wrote), * "That's As Close As I'll Get (to Loving You)" (#1c 1995), "Without Your Love" (#22c 1995), * "I Didn't Come This Far (Just to Walk Away)" (1998), * "For You I Will" (#49, #6c 1999), "I'm Leaving" (#87, #17c 1999), "Kiss This" (#42, #1c 2000, he co-wrote), "Where the Stars and the Stripes and the Eagles Fly" (#20, #2c 2002, he co-wrote)
• duet with Thea Tippin, "Love Like There's No Tomorrow" (#35c 2003, he co-wrote)
• truck driver; pilot
• md. to Thea Corontzos (1995- )

• b. 1960 in Lafayette, TN
• country musician, instruments: steel guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro
• founding member of Ricochet (1993-2000), "What Do I Know?" (#5c 1996), "Daddy's Money" (#1c 1996), "Love is Stronger Than Pride" (#9c 1996), "The Truth is, I Lied" (1996), "Don't Forget to Feed the Jukebox (While I'm Gone)" (1997), "The Girl Formerly Known As Mine" (1997), "Ease My Troubled Mind" (#20c 1997), "He Left a Lot to Be Desired" (#18c 1997), "Blink of an Eye" (#39c 1997), "Connected at the Heart" (#44c 1998), "Seven Bridges Road" (#48c 2000), "Do I Love You Enough?" (#45c 2000), "She's Gone" (#48c 2000)
• see Ricochet

• b. 1949 in Anderson, SC
• country/rock/Christian singer
• instrument: drums
• founding member of Strawberry Alarm Clock (1967, 1969-71), "Strawberries Mean Love" (1967), "Incense and Peppermints" (#1 1967)
• see Strawberry Alarm Clock on Wikipedia

• b. 1959 in Montgomery, AL
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• founding member and lead singer of Pirates of the Mississippi (1987-96, 2000- ), "Honky-Tonk Blues" (#26c 1990), "Feed Jake" (#15c 1990), "This Ain't the Denver I Remember" (1991), "Till I'm Holding You Again" (#22c 1992), "Dream You" (#68c 1993), "The Biggest Broken Heart in Tennessee" (1995), "Weakness for the Weekend" (1995)
• session musician
• songwriter

• b. 1937 in Lynchburg, VA
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Take Your Hands Off My Heart" (#49c 1965), "Thank You, Ma'am" (#17c 1966), "Common Colds and Broken Hearts" (#32c 1966), "Volkswagen" (#26c 1966), "I Ran Out of Tomorrows Today" (1969), "Reconsider Me" (#38 1969), "The Simple Things in Life" (1975), "Rita Faye" (1975), "Dog-Tired of Cattin' Around" (1975), "One Too Many Memories" (#82c 1981)
• duets with Jean Shepherd, "I'll Take the Dog" (#9c 1966), "Mister Do-it-Yourself" (#25c 1967)
• founding member of Sycamore
• songwriter
• served in the Navy (1954- )

• b. 1942 in Boston, MA (grew up in Weyland, MA)
• country/bluegrass/rock/folk singer, yodeler
• instruments: guitar, mandolin, sax
• "Sweet Melinda" (1981, he wrote), "Thirsty in the Rain" (1982, he wrote), "It's Mighty Dark to Travel" (1985), "New Moon Rising" (1988, he wrote), "Barefoot Country Road" (1990, he co-wrote), "Deal with the Devil" (1991, he co-wrote), "Midnight Highway" (1991, he co-wrote), "Tree on a Hill" (1994, he wrote)
• with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys (1964-67), "Shenandoah Breakdown" (1964), "Scotland" (#27c 1965, he wrote), "I Live in the Past" (1965), "My Little Georgia Rose" (1966), "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" (1967), "Easy Way Out" (1967)
• with Earth Opera
• founding member of The Rowans (1975- ), "Take it as it Comes" (1975), "Beggar in Blue Jeans" (1976), "If I Only Could" (1976)
• founding member of Old and in the Way, "Goin' to the Races" (1973), "Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (1973), "Panama Red" (1975), "Old and in the Way" (1975)
• songwriter
• see The Blue Grass Boys
• see Peter Rowan

• b. 1909 in Reilly Springs, TX - d. 26 Nov 1986
• country/honky-tonk singer
• instruments: guitar, fiddle
• founding member of The Shelton Brothers, "Sweet Evalina" (1935), "At the Shelby County Fair" (1935), "Story of Seven Roses" (1937), "Goodness Gracious Gracie" (1937), "Someday, Baby" (1938), "Those Dusty Roads" (1938), "Meet Me Somewhere in Your Dreams" (1938), "Parking Meter Blues" (1939), "Doggone Crazy Blues" (1940), "I'll Be Seein' You in Dallas, Alice" (1940), "Tell Me with Your Blue Eyes" (1940), "I'm Driftin' and Shiftin' My Gears" (1941)
• The Shelton Brothers were backup for Jimmie Davis
• songwriter

• b. 1949 in Shreveport, LA
• country musician, instrument: drums
• session musician on Tim McGraw's "Two-Steppin' Mind" (#71c 1993); Tracy Lawrence's "Alibis" (#72, #1c 1993), "Can't Break it to My Heart" (#1c 1993), "My Second Home" (#1c 1993); and with Clay Walker, Chalee Tennison, Toby Keith, Regina Regina, George Strait, The Charlie Daniels Band, Hank Williams, Jr., Martina McBride, Randy Travis, and others
• music producer

• b. 1968 in Richards, TX
• country singer
• instruments: piano, keyboards
• "The Cost of Lovin' You" (1991), "That's How Strong My Weakness is" (1991), "Bettin' Forever on You" (#71c 1996), "Just Another House for Sale" (1996), "Louisiana Lonely" (1996, he co-wrote), "He's on the Way Home" (#67c 1997)
• duet with Merle Haggard, "Swinging Doors" (1996)
• with Dottie West's band (1987-91)
• music producer

• b. 1930 in Birmingham, AL – d. 19 Dec 1999 in Nashville, TN (emphysema)
• country/pop singer
• instruments: guitar, piano
• "Are You Willing, Willie?" (#12c 1959, she wrote), "That's My Kind of Love" (#5c 1960, she wrote), "I Think I Know" (#7c 1960), "There'll Always Be Sadness" (#25c 1961), "Shake Me I Rattle (Squeeze Me I Cry)" (#42, #14c 1963), "Crazy Arms" (#18c 1963), "You Took Him Off My Hands (Now Please Take Him Off My Mind)" (#33c 1964), "I Will Blow Out the Light" (#32c 1966), "A Woman Needs Love" (#38c 1967), "Mama Sez" (#45c 1968, she wrote)
• duet with George Morgan, "Slipping Around" (#12c 1964)
• songwriter

• b. 1970 in Bakersfield, CA
• country/rock singer
• instrument: bass
• founding member of Smokin' Armadillos (1992- ), "My Girlfriend Might" (1995), "Red Rock" (1995), "Let Your Heart Lead Your Mind" (#53c 1996), "Love of a Lifetime" (1996), "I Don't Want No Part of it" (#64c 1998), "You Were a Mountain" (2003), "Is That Askin' Too Much?" (2003)

• b. 1930 in Hammond, IN
• country/bluegrass singer
• instruments: bass, piano
• founding member of The Dillards (1962- ), "Somebody Touched Me" (1963), "Rainin' Here This Mornin'" (1963), "Polly Vaughn" (1964), "Biggest Whatever" (1968), "West Montana Hanna" (1970), "Hot Rod Banjo" (1973), "Headed for the Country" (1979)
• songwriter
• see The Dillards

• b. 1964 - d. 7-27-2003 (auto accident)
• country/rock musician, instrument: drums
• founding member of Jasper Stone (1997-2003), "Old Boots" (1999), "One Dollar Rose" (1999), "Rural Box A" (1999), "Handful of Change" (1999), "Misery-Go-Round" (1999), "Back on the Road" (2003), "Out the Window" (2003)

• b. 1943/44 in Toronto, Canada
• rockabilly/folk/rock singer
• instruments: guitar, bass, piano
• "Showdown at Big Sky" (1987, he wrote), "Hold Back the Dawn" (1991, he wrote), "What about Now?" (1991, he co-wrote)
• with The Hawks (1960-66), "He Don't Love You" (1965), "The Stones I Throw" (1965)
• The Hawks backing Ronnie Hawkins (1960-64), "Lonely Hours" (1960)
• The Hawks backing Bob Dylan (1965-66), "Just Like a Woman" (#33 1966), "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" (#2 1966), "I Want You" (#20 1966), "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (#81 1966)
• founding member and guitarist with The Band, (1967-76), "The Weight" (#63 1968, he wrote), "Up on Cripple Creek" (#25 1969), "Whispering Pines" (1969), "Life is a Carnival" (#72c 1971), "Thinking Out Loud" (1971), "Don't Do it" (#34 1972), "Ain't Got No Home" (#73 1973)
• songwriter
• music producer; actor
• see The Band

• b. 1970 in Bakersfield, CA
• country/rock singer
• founding member and lead singer of Smokin' Armadillos (1992- ), "My Girlfriend Might" (1995), "Red Rock" (1995), "Let Your Heart Lead Your Mind" (#53c 1996), "Love of a Lifetime" (1996), "I Don't Want No Part of it" (#64c 1998), "You Were a Mountain" (2003), "Is That Askin' Too Much?" (2003)

• b. 1937 in Converse, SC - d. 18 May 2005 (multiple sclerosis)
• bluegrass/country/rock musician, instruments: banjo, rhythm guitar, bass
• "Devil Dance" (1977), "Take Five" (2008), "The Bandit" (2008)
• founding member of Area Code 615, "Why Ask Why?" (1969), "Southern Comfort" (1969), "Stone Fox Chase" (1970)
• with Barefoot Jerry (1974- ), "There Must Be a Better Way" (1974), "Violets and Daffodils" (1974), "Slowin' Down" (1975), "Sinkin' in the Sea" (1975), "Barefootin'" (1976), "Wilma Lou" (1976), "Woes of the Road" (1976)
• Barefoot Jerry and Charlie McCoy, "T.D.'s Boogie Woogie" (#22c 1974), "Summit Ridge Drive" (#98c 1977)
• with Jim and Jesse, "Border Ride" (1958)
• with Bill Monroe's The Blue Grass Boys (1970)
• session musician on Bobby Bare's "Marie Laveau" (#1c 1974); Neil Young's "Get Back to the Country" (#33c 1985); Randy Travis' "1982" (#6c 1986), "On the Other Hand" (#1c 1986), "Diggin' up Bones" (#1c 1986), "No Place Like Home" (#2c 1987); and with Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Leon Russell, Hank Snow, Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard, Olivia Newton-John, The Monkees, Jimmy Buffett, and others
• served in the military
• see Barefoot Jerry

• b. 1952
• country singer
• instruments: keyboards, guitar
• with River Road, "I Broke It, I'll Fix it" (#48c 1997), "Nickajack" (#37c 1997), "Wishful Thinkin'" (1997), "As if You Didn't Know" (1997), "Somebody Will" (#51c 1998), "Breathless" (#41c 2000)
• with the Whiskey River Band
• session musician
• see River Road on Wikipedia

• b. 1915 in Alex, AR - d. 13 Apr 1981
• country/western swing singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Slow Horses, Fast Women" (1952)
• founding member of The Oklahoma Wranglers (aka The Willis Brothers) (1932-42, 1946-81), "Came the Dawn" (1947), "The Waltz and That Tennessee Moon" (1948), "Wrangler Boogie" (1950), "Country Kisses" (1951), "Hoot Owl Boogie" (1951), "Unhappy New Year" (1951), "Back Up and Push" (1951), "East a Long Way" (1954), "Little Footprints in the Snow" (1960), "Buyin' Popcorn" (1962), "Sally's Bangs" (1962), "Cody of the Pony Express" (1963), "Somebody Knows" (1963), "Give Me Forty Acres (to Turn This Rig Around)" (#9c 1964), "Gonna Buy Me a Juke Box" (1964), "Too Early to Get Up" (1964), "When I Came Driving Through" (1965), "A Six Foot Two by Four" (#41c 1965), "Diesel-Drivin' Donut-Dunkin' Dan" (1965), "Pinball Anonymous" (1965), "Waltzing with Sin" (1966), "Ruby Ann" (1966), "Diamonds for Ruby" (1966), "Bob" (#14c 1967), "Rosebuds and You" (1967), "Show Her Lots of Gold" (1967), "Drivin's in My Blood" (1968), "Motorcycle Bill" (1968), "A Moonlight Ride in a Diesel" (1968), "Alcohol and No. 2 Diesel" (1969), "Gypsy Rose and Me" (1969), "Cold North Wind" (1969), "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me?" (1973)
• The Willis Brothers and Johnny Bond, "One More Ride" (1977), "Sioux City Sue" (1977), "Idaho" (1977), "Boots and Saddles" (1977)

• b. 1944 in Caldwell, KS (grew up in OK)
• bluegrass/country/rock singer
• instruments: fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin
• founding member of Country Gazette (1971, 1972-75, 1977), "I Wish You Knew" (1972), "The Fallen Eagle" (1973), "Roses for a Sunday Morning" (1974), "Holland Holiday" (1974), "Sunday Sunrise" (1974), "Still Feeling Blue" (1975), "Sure Didn't Take Him Long" (1975), "In Despair" (1977)
• founding member of the Byron Berline Band, "With Care From Someone" (2001), "One Hundred Years From Now" (2001)
• with the Flying Burrito Brothers (1971-72), "Tried So Hard" (1971), "Just Can't Be" (1971), "Colorado" (1971), "Dixie Breakdown" (1972), "Losing Game" (1972)
• with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys (1967), "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" (1967)
• founding member of California
• duets with Vince Gill, "Rose of Old Kentucky" (1995), "Sweet Memory Waltz" (1995)
• session musician with Bob Dylan,The Dillards, Earl Scruggs, Willie Nelson, Rod Stewart, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and others
• served in the Army
• see The Blue Grass Boys

• b. 1945 in NY
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• lead guitar with Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (1973- ), "Carry Me, Carrie" (1973), "Only Sixteen" (#6 1976), "A Little Bit More" (#11 1976), "If Not You" (#55 1976), "Sharing the Night Together" (#6, #50c 1978), "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (#6 1979), "All the Time in the World" (#54 1979), "Better Love Next Time" (#12 1980), "Sexy Eyes" (#5 1980), "Years from Now" (#51 1980), "Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk" (#25 1982), "Chained to Your Memory" (1982)
• he is a cancer survivor

• b. 1953/54 in Sequin, TX (grew up in Austin, TX)
• country/folk singer
• instrument: acoustic guitar
• "Dollar Matinée" (1978), "Montana Back Roads" (1978), "Julie Anne" (1982), "October Reasons" (1982), "I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels" (1984), "Once in a Very Blue Moon" (#85c 1986), "If I Were the Woman You Wanted" (1986), "Lone Star State of Mind" (#36c 1987), "Cold Hearts, Closed Minds" (#64c 1987, she wrote), "Never Mind" (#58c 1987), "I Knew Love" (#37c 1988), "Gulf Coast Highway" (1988), "Deadwood, South Dakota" (1988), "Drive-in Movies and Dashboard Lights" (1989), "San Diego Serenade" (1991), "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (1998), "Roses on the Fourth of July" (2001), "Tumble and Fall" (2003), "Last Train Home" (2004)
• songwriter, wrote Kathy Mattea's "Love at the Five and Dime" (#3 1986); co-wrote Suzy Bogguss' "Outbound Plane" (#9c 1991)
• she is a survivor of breast cancer (1996) and thyroid cancer (1998)

• b. 1955/56 in Madison, WI (grew up in CA)
• country/rock/jazz singer
• instruments: electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, piano, upright bass, clarinet, sax
• founding member and guitarist with the Desert Rose Band (1985-91), "Once More" (1987), "Ashes of Love" (#26c 1987), "He's Back and I'm Blue" (#1c 1987), "Love Reunited" (#6c 1987), "One Step Forward" (#2c 1987), "I Still Believe in You" (#1c 1988), "Summer Wind" (#2c 1988), "She Don't Love Nobody" (#3c 1989), "Hello, Trouble" (#11c 1989), "Start All Over Again" (#6c 1990), "In Another Lifetime" (#13c 1990), "Story of Love" (#10c 1990)
• founding member of The Hellecasters
• with Elton John's band (1994-99)
• founding member of The John Jorgenson Quintet
• session musician
• see John Jorgenson

• b. 1971 in Tecumseh, OK
• country/rock singer
• instruments: guitar, harmonica
• founding member, lead singer and lead guitarist of Great Divide (1992- ), "Rather Have Nothin'" (1995), "Pour Me a Vacation" (#59c 1998), "Never Could" (#74c 1998), "Yesterday Road" (1999), "Ain't about to Fall" (2000), "Lost in the Night" (2002), "If Not for You" (2002), "Just Another Day" (2005), "Love and Gasoline" (2005), "Spanning Time" (2006)
• songwriter

• b. 1958 in Nashville, TN
• country singer
• "Start a Little Fire Tonight" (1987), "Once and For Always" (#87c 1990)

• b. 1964 in Crockett, TX
• country singer
• instrument: acoustic guitar
• founding member and lead singer of Perfect Stranger (1986- ), "Ridin' the Rodeo" (1994), "You Have the Right to Remain Silent" (#61, #4c 1995), "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" (#52c 1995), "Even the Jukebox Can't Forget" (1995), "Remember the Ride" (#56c 1996), "Fire When Ready" (#62c 1997), "A Little Bit More of Your Love" (#66c 1999)
• md. to Lisa Starr

• b. 1940 in Titusville, PA (grew up in Townville, PA)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Old Memories Never Die" (1965), "It's Only Love" (#15c 1966), "Don't Touch Me" (#85, #2c 1967), "These Memories" (#42c 1967), "Be Just as Lonely There" (1967), "I'll Love You More (Than You Need)" (#10c 1967), "Maybe I Should Leave" (1968), "Welcome Home to Nothing" (1968), "Just Enough to Start Me Dreaming" (#43c 1969), "Can I Sleep in Your Arms?" (#6c 1973), "Lucky Ladies" (#11c 1974), "I Miss You" (#37c 1974)
• duets with Jack Greene, "I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You" (#2 1970), "Much Obliged" (#15c 1972), "It's Time to Cross That Bridge" (#13c 1974)
• songwriter, wrote Faron Young's "Leavin' and Sayin' Goodbye" (#1c 1972)
• DJ; actress
• md. to Hank Cochran
• see Jeannie Seely

• b. 1894 near Alleyton, TX - d. 1 Jun 1964
• country/western swing singer
• instrument: fiddle
• founding member and lead of The Alley Cats (1936-41, 1946), "You've Made a Dream Come True" (1937), "Try it Once Again" (1938), "She's So Different" (1938), "Houston Blues" (1938), "Alley Cat Stomp" (1938), "I Wish I'd Never Learned to Love" (1939), "I'll Keep Thinking of You" (1939), "It Took My Breath Away" (1940), "I Just Can't Forget the Past" (1940), "Beer Joint Blues" (1941, he wrote)
• session musician with Jimmie Rodger, and others
• songwriter
• served in the Army during WWI
• step-father of Clyde Brewer

• b. 1924/28 in El Monte, CA or Pasadena, CA - d. 30 Sep 1977 in Arcadia, CA (cancer and complications of diabetes)
• country/jazz/pop singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Time Stands Still" (1965), "Why Can't He Be You?" (1966)
• duets with Les Paul, "How High the Moon" (#1 1951), "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" (#2 1951), "Mockin' Bird Hill" (#2, #7c 1951), "Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)" (#1 1953), "Hummingbird" (#7 1955), "Cinco Robles (Five Oaks)" (#35 1957)
• md. to singer, Les Paul (1949-63)

• b. 1949 in Fort Riley, KS - d. 12 Oct 2023
• country singer
• instruments: guitar, banjo
• founding member of Sawmill Creek (1973- ), "Cold Wyoming Snow" (1978), "Sawmill Creek" (1978), "Wish I Could See It Like You Do" (1978), "I'd Rather Have Your Memory" (1978), "Grandma Shoes" (1978), "Old Tree" (1980), "Friends" (1980), "Just Because it's So" (1980), "Hole in My Life" (1980), "Barely Gettin' By" (#90c 1981, he wrote), "We Ride Together" (1982), "Don't Run Away" (1982), "You've Got a Lot of Nerve to Cry" (1982), "Swindler of Feelings" (1982), "I Just Came Back (To Break My Heart Again)" (#70, #77c 1985), "Bidding America Goodbye (The Acution)" (#81c 1986), "Somethin' Old Fashioned" (1986), "The Rain's Gonna Follow Me" (2005), "Say When" (2005)
• other group members include: Dennis Duncan, singer, bass player and Jimmy 'C' Christensen singer, steel guitar, dobro

• b. 1950/57 in San Andreas, CA
• pop/disco singer
• founding member of Village People (1977-81, 1987- , construction worker character), "Macho Man" (#25 1978), * "Y.M.C.A." (#2 1978), "Hot Cop" (1978), "In the Navy" (#3 1979), "Go West" (1979), "Can't Stop the Music" (1980), "Do You Wanna Spend the Night?" (1981), "5 O'Clock in the Morning" (1981)
• contrary to the group's image, only Felipe Rose was actually gay
• his nickname is from getting badly burned when he was a roller-skating fire-eater
• concerned with animal welfare
• see Village People

• b. 1906 in Vienna, Austria – d. 10 Jan 1985 in Vienna, Austria
• pop musician, instrument: zither
• "The Third Man Theme" (#1 1950, he wrote), "Danube Dreams" (1959, he wrote), "Vienna, City of My Dreams" (1963)
• songwriter
• café owner

• b. 1919 in North Star, OH
• bluegrass/folk singer
• instruments: string bass, fiddle, mandolin, guitar
• founding member of The Coon Creek Girls (1937-39), "Banjo Pickin' Girl" (1938), "The Soldier and the Lady" (1938)
• with The Callahan Brothers
• md. to Mr. Perry

• b. 1927 near Section, AL
• country/gospel singer
• instrument: guitar
• "I Don't Love You Anymore" (#4c 1964), "See the Big Man Cry" (#7c 1965), "I Think I'll Go Somewhere and Cry Myself to Sleep" (#26c 1965), "You Finally Said Something Good (When You Said Goodbye)" (#15c 1966), "The Proof is in the Kissing" (#58c 1966, he co-wrote), "Will You Visit Me on Sundays?" (#20c 1968), "She Forgot to Take Me" (1968), "Hey Daddy" (#15c 1968), "You're My Wife, She's My Woman" (#36c 1974), "It Almost Felt Like Love" (#76 1974), "Silver Dish Café" (1976), "Ten Years, Three Kids, and Two Loves Too Late" (1981)
• founding member of The Louvin Brothers (1949-63), "Seven-Year Blues" (1949), "When I Stop Dreaming" (#8c 1955, he co-wrote), "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby" (#1c 1956), "Hoping That You're Hoping" (#7c 1956), "Cash on the Barrel Head" (#7c 1956, he co-wrote), "You're Running Wild" (#7c 1956), "Plenty of Everything But You" (#14c 1957, he co-wrote), "My Baby's Gone" (#9c 1958), "Knoxville Girl" (#19c 1959), "Nellie Moved to Town" (1960), "I Love You Best of All" (#12c 1961, he co-wrote)
• duet with Melba Montgomery, "Something to Brag About" (#18c 1970)
• songwriter, co-wrote The Browns' "Just As Long As You Love Me" (#11c 1956), "I Take the Chance" (#2c 1956); Ernie Ashworth's "I Take the Chance" (#7c 1963); Emmylou Harris's "If I Could Only Win Your Love" (#4c 1975); Carl Smith's "Are You Teasing Me?" (#1c 1952)
• postal clerk
• served in the Army during WWII and the Korean War
• md. to Betty Harrison
• brother of Ira Louvin, cousin of John D. Loudermilk

• b. 1968
• bluegrass singer
• instruments: guitar, fiddle
• with J.D. Crowe and the New South (1999), "Come on Down to My World" (1999), "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" (1999), "You Didn't Say Goodbye" (1999)
• with the Lynn Morris Band
• with Redwing
• with The Bass Mountain Boys
• with The Bluegrass Cardinals
• with IIIrd Tyme Out (2002-05)
• with The Circuit Riders
• songwriter, co-wrote Leann Womack's "The Healing Kind" (2000)
• see IIIrd Tyme Out

• b. 1982 in TX
• country singer
• "Wait a Minute" (2001), "Almost There" (#45c 2002), "Little Did She Know (She'd Kissed a Hero)" (2002)

• b. 1917 in Edmonton, KY - d. 5 Jun 1967 (auto accident)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• founding member of Lonzo and Oscar (1950-1967), "Wild Oats" (1954), "Gotta Find Julie" (1959), "I Lost an Angel" (1960), "Hills of East Tennessee" (1960), "Country Music Time" (#26c 1961), "Can't Pitch Woo (in an Igloo)" (1961), "No One Can Teach You" (1966)
• session musician on Eddy Arnold's "That's How Much I Love You" (#2c 1946), "Chained to a Memory" (#3c 1946), "It's a Sin" (#1c 1947), "What is Life Without Love?" (#1c 1947)
• comedian
• served in the military during WWII
• brother of Rollin Sullivan

• b. 1930 in Hardy, AR – d. 16 Oct 1982 in Nashville, TN
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• founding member of The Wilburn Brothers (1953- ), "I'm So in Love with You" (#10c 1956), "Go Away With Me" (#6c 1956), "Which One to Blame?" (#4c 1959), "Somebody's Back in Town" (#6c 1959), "A Woman's Intuition" (#9c 1959), "Knoxville Girl" (#18c 1959), * "Trouble's Back in Town" (#4c 1962), "Roll Muddy River" (#4c 1963), "Tell Her So" (#10c 1963), "It's Another World" (#5c 1965), "Someone Before Me" (#8c 1966), "Hurt Her Once for Me" (#3c 1966), "Roarin' Again" (#13c 1967), "Arkansas" (#47c 1972)
• The Wilburn Brothers sang backup on Webb Pierce's "In the Jailhouse Now" (#1 1955)
• The Wilburn Brothers duets with Ernest Tubb, "Mister Love" (#8c 1957), "Hey, Mister Bluebird" (#9c 1958)
• The Wilburn Brothers duet with Webb Pierce, "Sparkling Brown Eyes" (#4c 1954)
• songwriter
• md. to Margie Bowes (1961- ); brother of Teddy Wilburn

• b. 1947/49 in Anniston, AL
• country/folk/bluegrass singer
• instruments: guitar, banjo
• duets with Robin Williams, "All Broken Hearts Are the Same" (1988, she co-wrote), "Stone Wall Country" (1988, she co-wrote), "Six O'Clock News" (1990, she co-wrote), "Hired Gun" (1990, she co-wrote), "Lying to the Moon" (1993), "On the Day the Last Tear Falls" (1993, she co-wrote), "Letter That I Wrote" (1999, she co-wrote), "Men with Guns" (1999, she co-wrote), "Sometime Tomorrow" (2000, she co-wrote)
• songwriter
• see Robin and Linda Williams

• b. 1927 in Stratford, OK
• country singer
• "Just As Much As Ever" (#32 1959), "Crazy Arms" (#36 1960), "Beloved" (1960), "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" (1960), "Slowly Dying" (1965), "Cherokee Strip" (#73c 1967), "You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy" (1967), "Look at Them" (1967)
• songwriter
• music publisher

• b. 1961 in Clinton, OK (grew up in Moore, OK)
• country singer
• instrument: rhythm guitar
• "Should've Been a Cowboy" (#93, #1c 1993, he wrote), "He Ain't Worth Missing" (#5c 1993, he wrote), "Close, But No Guitar" (1993, he wrote), * "A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action" (#2c 1993, he co-wrote), "Wish I Didn't Know Now (What I Didn't Know Then)" (1994, he wrote), "Who's That Man?" (#1c 1994, he wrote), "Big Ol' Truck" (#15c 1994, he wrote), "Upstairs Downtown" (#10c 1995, he co-wrote), "You Ain't Much Fun (Since I Quit Drinking)" (#2c 1995, he co-wrote), "Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You?" (#2c 1996, he wrote), "Lucky Me" (1996, he co-wrote), "Me Too" (#1c 1997, he co-wrote), "We Were in Love" (#2c 1997), "Dream Walkin'" (#5c 1998, he co-wrote), * "She Only Gets That Way with Me" (1999, he co-wrote), "Die with Your Boots on" (1999, he co-wrote), "Country Comes to Town" (#54, #4c 2000, he wrote), "How Do You Like Me Now?" (#31, #1c 2000, he co-wrote), * "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This" (#32, #1c 2001, he wrote), * "Forever Hasn't Got Here Yet" (2001, he co-wrote), * "Yesterday's Rain" (2001, he co-wrote), * "I'm Just Talkin' about Tonight" (#27, #1c 2001, he co-wrote), * "I Wanna Talk about Me" (#28, #1c 2001), * "You Leave Me Weak" (2001, he co-wrote), * "Pull My Chain" (2001, he co-wrote), * "My List" (#26, #1c 2002, he co-wrote), "Rodeo Moon" (2002, he co-wrote), * "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" (#25, #1c 2002, he wrote), * "Who's Your Daddy?" (#22, #1c 2002, he wrote), "I Love This Bar" (#26, #1c 2003, he co-wrote), "Nights I Can't Remember, Friends I'll Never Forget" (2003, he co-wrote), "Whiskey Girl" (#31, #1c 2004, he co-wrote), "Baddest Boots" (2003, he wrote), "American Soldier" (#26, #1c 2004, he co-wrote), "Stays in Mexico" (#51, #3c 2004, he wrote), "As Good As I Once Was" (#28, #1c 2005, he co-wrote), * "Big Blue Note" (#55, #5c 2005, he co-wrote), "Get Drunk and Be Somebody" (#47 #3c 2006, he co-wrote), "A Little Too Late" (#2c 2006, he co-wrote), "High-Maintenance Woman" (#67, #3c 2007, he co-wrote), "Love Me if You Can" (#19c 2007), "White Rose" (2007)
• with Easy Money (1984-88)
• duet with Willie Nelson, "Beer for My Horses" (#22, #1c 2003, he co-wrote)
• duet with Cledus T. Judd, "I Love NASCAR" (#48c 2004)
• duet with Sting, "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Cryin'" (#84, #2c 1997)
• duets with Scotty Emerick, * "I Can't Take You Anywhere" (#91, #24c 2003, he co-wrote), "Hurtin' All Over" (2007), "Love Me Like My Dog Does" (2007)
• backup singer on Jimmy Buffett's "Hey, Good Lookin'" (#8c 2004)
• songwriter
• md. to Trica (1984- )
• quote by Toby Keith: "You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war."
• see Toby Keith

• b. 1970 in Reynolds, ND
• country musician, instruments: keyboards, piano, guitar
• with Perfect Stranger (1997-99), "Fire When Ready" (#62c 1997), "A Little Bit More of Your Love" (#66c 1999)
• songwriter
• CPA

• b. 1970 in Brownwood, TX
• country singer
• instrument: rhythm guitar
• founding member of the Drew Womack Band, "Hey, Daisy" (2004, he wrote), "Premium Gasoline" (2004, he wrote), "The Fine Art of Failure" (2004, he wrote), "Leaving October" (2004, he co-wrote), "Country Heart" (2006), "Love of My Life" (2006)
• founding member of Sons of the Desert (1989- ), "Hand of Fate" (#33c 1997), "Whatever Comes First" (#10c 1997, he wrote), "Leaving October" (#31c 1998, he co-wrote), "What about You?" (#45c 1999), "Everybody's Gotta Grow up Sometime" (#42c 2000), "What I Did Right" (#22c 2001)
• Sons of the Desert were backup on Ty Herdon's "It Must Be Love" (#1c 1998), Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" (#1c 2000)
• songwriter, co-wrote Kenny Chesney's "She's Got it All" (#1 1997)
• he is not related to LeAnn Womack

• b. 1958 in Edmonton, KY or Glasgow, KY
• country/rock singer
• instruments: drums, percussions
• founding member of Kentucky Headhunters (1985- ), "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine" (#25c 1989), "Oh, Lonesome Me" (#8c 1990), "Rock 'n' Roll Angel" (#23c 1990), "With Body and Soul" (#56c 1991), "Honky-Tonk Walkin'" (#54c 1992), "Singin' the Blues" (#70c 1997), "Too Much to Lose" (#66c 2000)
• the Kentucky Headhunters and Johnnie Johnson, "That'll Work" (1993), "I Know You Can" (1993), "Derby Day Special" (1993)
• brother of Richard Young
• see The Kentucky Headhunters

• b. 1978 in Canada
• country singer
• instruments: fiddle, acoustic guitar, mandolin
• with 12 Gauge
• founding member of Emerson Drive (1995-2003), * "I Should Be Sleeping" (#4c 2002), "Fall into Me" (#34, #3c 2002), "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)" (#23c 2003)
• see Emerson Drive

• b. 1953 in Rock Hill, SC
• country/bluegrass singer
• instruments: guitar, stand-up bass
• "Steppin' Out" (#46c 1988, he co-wrote), "Thinkin' Problem" (#40, #2c 1994, he co-wrote), * "When the Thought of You (Catches up with Me) (#7c 1994, he wrote), "Look What Followed Me Home" (#11c 1995, he co-wrote), "Circle of Friends" (#49c 1996), "Watching My Baby Not Coming Back" (#47c 1999, he co-wrote), "I Want to Be with You" (#67c 1999), "Loser Friendly" (2001), "Riding with Private Malone" (#36, #2c 2001)
• with Uncle Walt's Band
• songwriter
• see David Ball

• b. 1907 in Posey, TX - d. 4 Mar 1999 in Thousand Oaks, CA (emphysema and heart disease)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "I'm a Kansas Man" (1947), "One Has My Name, the Other Has My Heart" (11c 1948, he co-wrote), "I Asked a Dream" (1951), "Roses Remind Me of You" (1951), "I'm the Old Friend" (1951), "Second-Hand Romance" (1954), "Walk Beside Me" (1954), "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven" (#10c 1955, he co-wrote), "Downgrade" (1955), "Taos" (1955), "Fingerprint" (1955), "Iowa Rose" (1956), "Nothing But Echoes" (1956), "If Dreams Could Come True" (1961), "Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before" (1966), "Wagon Wheels" (1976)
• songwriter
• actor, stuntman

• b. 1929 in Mannford, OK - 4 Aug 2007 in Henderson, NV (renal cancer)
• country/pop singer (baritone)
• instrument: guitar
• "We All Make the Flowers Grow" (1963, he wrote), "By the Way (I Still Love You)" (1965, he wrote), "Four Kinds of Lonely" (1965, he wrote), "Love and Other Crimes" (1968, he wrote), "Greyhound Bus Depot" (1969), "I'll Live Yesterdays" (1971, he wrote), "It Must Have Been Something I Loved" (1971, he wrote), "And I Loved You Then" (1972, he wrote), "Absent Friends" (1975, he wrote), "Kari" (1973, he wrote), "Mannford, Oklahoma" (1968, he wrote), "Tulsa Sunday" (2000, he wrote)
• recorded as Mark Robinson, "Pretty Jane" (1958, he wrote), "Want Me" (1958), "I've Made Enough Mistakes Today" (1962)
• duets with Nancy Sinatra, "Summer Wine" (#49 1966, he wrote), "Jackson" (#14 1967), "Lady Bird" (#20 1967, he wrote), "Some Velvet Morning" (#26 1968, he wrote), "She Won't" (1968)
• duet with Al Casey, "Lost on the Wrong Road" (2002, he wrote)
• duet with Donnie Owens, "After Six" (1968, he wrote)
• songwriter, wrote Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" (#1 1966), "Love Eyes" (#15 1967), "How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?" (#7 1966); Al Casey's "(Dance with the) Guitar Man" (#12 1962)
• co-wrote Duane Eddy's "Boss Guitar" (#28 1963), "Cannonball" (#15 1958), "Rebel Rouser" (#6, #17c 1958); "Sanford Clark's "The Fool" (#7 1956)
• music producer
• served in the Army during the Korean War
• md. to Naomi Shackleford
• he was diagnosed with renal cancer in 2006

• b. 1929 in Carfax, VA
• bluegrass/country/folk singer
• instruments: mandolin, fiddle
• founding member of Jim and Jesse (1945-2002), "Border Ride" (1958), "The Flame of Love" (1960), "Are You Missing Me?" (1963), "Better Times a Coming" (#39c 1965), "Tell Her Lies and Feed Her Candy" (1965), "Diesel on My Tail" (#18c 1967), "Hot Rod Race" (1967), "Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman" (#49c 1968), "Golden Rocket" (#38c 1970), "Freight Train in My Mind" (#41c 1970), "Colorado Calling Me" (1980)
• Jim and Jesse and Charlie Louvin, "North Wind" (#56c 1982)
• session musician
• served in the Army during the Korean War (1952-54)
• md. to Constance Darlene McCoy
• brother of Jim McReynolds
• he is a cancer survivor since 2002
• see Jim and Jesse

• b. 1923 in McVeigh, KY – d. 5 Dec 1987 (cancer)
• country/honky-tonk/gospel singer
• instruments: guitar, banjo
• "Matthew Twenty-Four" (1947)
• duet with Lynn Davis, "I'm Going Home on the Morning Train" (1966)
• with The Forty-Niners
• founding member of Cumberland Mountain Folks, "The Evening Train" (1949), "With You on My Mind" (1950), "It's Different Now" (1951)
• md. to guitarist, Lynn Davis (1941-87, her death)

• b. 1958/59 in New York, NY
• folk/bluegrass/jazz musician, instruments: banjo, slide banjo, electric banjo, guitar, French horn
• with New Grass Revival (1984-89), "You're the Best Friend That I Know" (1984), "Where Do I Go from Here?" (1984), "Ain't That Peculiar" (#53c 1986), "Unconditional Love" (#44c 1987), "Hold on to a Dream" (1987), "One-Way Street" (1987), "Can't Stop Now" (#45c 1988), "Callin' Baton Rouge" (#37c 1989)
• founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (1989- ), "The Sinister Minister" (1990, he wrote), "Blu-Bop" (1991, he co-wrote), "For Now" (1993, he wrote), "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (1998, he wrote), "Something She Said" (2000), "New Math" (2003), "Misunderstood" (2006, he wrote), "Labyrinth" (2006, he wrote), "Kaleidoscope" (2006, he co-wrote)
• duet with Derek Trucks, "Centrifuge" (2003)
• duet with Nickel Creek, "Off the Top" (1993)
• session musician
• songwriter
• see New Grass Revival on Wikipedia
• see Bela Fleck

• b. 1919 in St. Louis, MO (grew up in TX)
• western swing singer
• instrument: guitar
• with The Prairie Ramblers, "Go Easy Blues" (1933, he co-wrote), "Shady Grove, My Darling" (1933, he co-wrote), "Next Year" (1933), "Blue River" (1933, he co-wrote), "Riding Down the Canyon" (1935), "Put on an Old Pair of Shoes" (1935)
• The Prairie Ramblers backing Gene Autry, "Old Faithful" (#10 1935)
• The Prairie Ramblers backed Patsy Montana (1933-41), * "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" (1935), "Give Me a Home in Wyoming" (1936), "Rodeo Sweetheart" (1938), "Shine on Rocky Mountain Moonlight" (1938), "Little Rose on the Prairie" (1938), "Someone to Go Home to" (1938), "Give Me a Straight-Shootin' Cowboy" (1938), "That's Where the West Begins" (1938), "My Pinto Pony" (1939), "Shy Little Anne from Cheyenne" (1940), "Swing-Time Cowgirl" (1940)
• The Prairie Ramblers also recorded as Rusty Gill and the Westernaires, "Whatever Made You Stop Loving Me?" (1941, he wrote), "I Ain't the Man I Used to Be" (1941, he wrote), "Weary and Worried" (1941, he wrote), "Straddlin' My Saddle" (1941, he wrote), "Blaze Away" (1941, he co-wrote), "In a Little Texas Town" (1941, he co-wrote), "To You and My West Virginia Home" (1941), "Let Me Wake up in Wyoming" (1941)
• songwriter
• actor
• served in the military
• md. to Carolyn De Zurik

• b. 1938 in Brady, TX – d. 17 Apr 2004 in Branson, MO (multimyloma cancer)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Her and the Car and the Mobile Home" (#67c 1969), "The Rumor" (1969), "Lila is My Kind of Woman" (1972), "Better Off When I Was Hungry" (1973, he wrote), "The Silence is So Loud" (1973), "North Alabama" (#37c 1981), "No More One More Time" (2004)
• session lead guitarist with Merle Haggard, George Strait, Janie Fricke, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Ronnie Milsap, and others
• songwriter, wrote Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely's "I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You" (#2 1970); Bill Anderson and Mary Lou Turner's "Where Are You Going, Billy Boy?" (#18c 1977); Gene Watson's "Memories to Burn" (#5c 1985), "Forever Again" (#10c 1983); Johnny Cash and Waylon Jenning's "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" (#2c 1978); Shenandoah's "Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin'" (#15c 1992); co-wrote Charley Pride's "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone?" (#1c 1970)
• md. to country singer, Leona Williams (1985-2004, his death)

• b. 1970 in Columbus, OH
• country singer
• instrument: acoustic guitar
• founding member and lead singer of Rascal Flatts (2000- ), "Prayin' for Daylight" (#38, #3c 2000), "This Everyday Love" (#9c 2001), "Long Slow Beautiful Dance" (#73c 2001), "While You Loved Me" (#60, #7c 2001), * "I'm Moving on" (#37, #4c 2001), * "These Days" (#23, #1c 2002), "Love You Out Loud" (#30, #2c 2003), "I Melt" (#33, #2c 2003), "Mayberry" (#21, #1c 2004), "Bless the Broken Road" (#29, #1c 2005), "Fast Cars and Freedom" (#38, #1c 2005), "Skin (Sarabeth)" (#42, #2c 2005), "What Hurts the Most" (#6, #1c 2006), "Pieces" (#57c 2006), "Life is a Highway" (#7, #18c 2006), "My Wish" (#28, #1c 2006), "Me and My Gang" (#50, #6c 2006), "Stand" (#46, #1c 2007), "Take Me There" (#1c 2007)
• cousin of Jay DeMarcus
• see Rascal Flatts

• b. 1965 in Kingsport, TN (grew up in Nashville, TN)
• country singer
• instrument: acoustic guitar
• "Juke Box Junkie" (#8c 1994, he co-wrote), "Looking in the Same Direction" (#55c 1994, he co-wrote), "I Can Bring Her Back" (#42c 1995, he co-wrote), "Fuel to the Fire" (1995, he co-wrote), "Workin' for the Weekend" (#39c 1995, he co-wrote), "Stranger in Your Eyes" (#55c 1995), "Paint Me a Birmingham" (#54c 2004)
• songwriter
• md. to Stephanie Poole (1995- )

• b. 1953 in Tyler, TX (grew up in LaPorte, TX)
• country/rock singer
• "Light at the End of the Tunnel" (#23c 1991), "Eye for an Eye" (1992), "Say Goodbye" (1992), "Lover Not a Fighter" (#43c 1993), "The Memory is the Last Thing to Go" (#73c 2000), "Ride to Live, Live to Ride" (2002), "Both Sides of Goodbye" (2002), "Drivin' Under the Influence of Love" (2002)
• B.B. stands for 'Bad Boy'

• b. 1960 in Topeka, KS
• country singer
• instrument: drums
• with BR5-49 (1995-2001, 2004- ), "Cherokee Boogie" (#44c 1996), "Even if it's Wrong" (#68c 1996), "Uneasy Rider" (2000), "Too Lazy to Work, Too Nervous to Steal" (#11c 2001), "She's Talking to Someone (She's Not Talking to Me)" (2004), "A-1 on the Jukebox" (2006), "After the Hurricane" (2006)

• b. 1963 in Springfield, MO
• country/bluegrass musician, instrument: bass
• with New Tradition (1994-98), "Heaven's Highway" (1997), "Daddy on His Knees" (1997), "I'll Take Your Love Anytime" (1997), "Dreams of the Past" (1997)
• with Cedar Hill (2007- )

• b. 1942/46 in Ottawa, Canada - d. 22 May 2005 in Ottawa, Canada (cancer)
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Lonely Highway Blues" (1978), "Time to Go" (1979), "Sparkle in Her Eyes" (1980, he co-wrote), "All Her Letters" (1980), "We Could Make Beautiful Music Together" (1980), "Windship" (1981), "Sweet Blues" (1985), "Counting the I Love You's" (1985, he co-wrote), "Love, Sweet Love" (1986), "Starting Forever Again" (1987), "I Thought Leaving Would Be Easy" (1988), "What about Her?" (1989), "That Was a Long Time Ago" (1991)
• with The Fabulous Fairlanes
• with The Starlights
• founding member of Terry and the Stables (1964- )
• founding member of Tracks
• with Carroll Baker's backing band, Tenderfoot (1978-80)
• duet with Michelle Wright, "None of the Feeling is Gone" (1987)
• songwriter

• b. 1911 in Quinton, OK - d. 9 Oct 2001
• western swing musician, instrument: drums
• founding member of The Texas Playboys (1935-40, off and on later), "Spanish Two-Step" (1935), "San Antonio Rose" (1938), "Maiden's Prayer" (1938), "Time Changes Everything" (1940), "Ida Red" (1940)
• see The Texas Playboys

• b. 1947 in Detroit, MI
• folk/country/rock singer
• instruments: guitar, mandolin, washboard
• founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1965-69, 1970- ), "Buy for Me the Rain" (#45 1967), "The Teddy Bear's Picnic" (1967), "Mr. Bojangles" (#9 1971), "Sunny Side of the Mountain" (1971), "(All I Have to Do is) Dream" (#79c 1975), "Shot Full of Love" (#19c 1983), "Dance Little Jean" (#9c 1983), "I Love Only You" (#3c 1984), "Long Hard Road (Sharecropper Dreams)" (#1c 1984), "High Horse" (#2c 1984), "Modern-Day Romance" (#1c 1985), "Home Again in My Heart" (#3c 1985), "Partners, Brothers and Friends" (#6c 1986, he co-wrote), "Stand a Little Rain" (#5c 1986), "Fire in the Sky" (#7c 1987, he co-wrote), "Baby's Got a Hold on Me" (#2c 1987, he co-wrote), "Oh, What a Love" (#5c 1987), "Fishin' in the Dark" (#1c 1987), "I've Been Lookin'" (#2c 1988, he co-wrote), "Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)" (#4c 1988), "Down That Road Tonight" (#6c 1989, he co-wrote), "Turn of the Century" (#27c 1989), "When it's Gone" (#10c 1989), "Mary Danced With Soldiers" (1989), "The Rest of the Dream" (1990), "You Made Life Good Again" (#60c 1990), "One Good Love" (#74c 1992, he co-wrote), "Colorado Christmas" (#93c 1997), "Bang, Bang, Bang" (#52c 1998), "Redneck Riviera" (2008)
• the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Nicolette Larson, "Make a Little Magic" (#77c 1980)
• the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Linda Ronstadt, "American Dream" (#13, #58c 1980)
• the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and John Denver, "And So it Goes" (#14c 1989)
• the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roseanne Cash and John Hiatt, "One Step Over the Line" (#63c 1990)
• songwriter
• md. to songwriter, Matraca Berg
• see The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

• b. 1951 in East Oakland, CA
• country/R&B singer
• "Heaven Must Have Sent You" (#11 1979), "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (#40 1979), "Tight Blue Jeans" (1984), "Under the Influence of Love" (1984), "There's Nobody Quite Like You" (1985)
• founding member of The Pointer sisters (1973-77), "Yes, We Can" (#11 1973), "Love in Them There Hills" (1974), "Fairytale" (#13, #37c 1974, she co-wrote)
• songwriter
• actress

• b. 1944 in Boscobel, WI
• country singer
• instrument: steel guitar
• "Sugar Shack" (#32c 1972), "You Lay So Easy on My Mind" (#3c 1973, he co-wrote), "You Give Me You" (#8c 1973), "What Better Way to Say I Love You?" (1974), "Freda Comes, Freda Goes" (#10c 1975), "Write Me a Letter" (#9c 1975), "I May Never Be Your Lover (But I'll Always Be Your Friend)" (#64c 1975), "Little Drops of Memories" (1975), "Memory Go Round" (1976), "The Softest Touch in Town" (#30c 1978), "The Man Who Takes You Home" (#53c 1980), "Through Each Other's Eyes" (1985), "Those Words I Never Heard" (1985)
• songwriter
• music producer

Tim Alexander

• b. 19??
• western swing singer
• instruments: piano, accordion
• with Asleep at the Wheel (1985-95), "House of Blue Lights" (#17c 1987), "Way Down Texas Way" (#39c 1987), "Hot Rod Lincoln" (#65c 1988), "Walk on By" (#55c 1988), "Keepin' Me Up Nights" (#54c 1990), "Dance With Who Brung You" (#71c 1991), "Red Wing" (1993)
• see Asleep at the Wheel

• b. 1948
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Magnet and Steel" (#8 1978, One-Hit Wonder), "Blonde in the Blue T-Bird" (1978), "Hurt Again" (1979), "Strange Love Affair" (1999), "Vergin' on Tears" (1999), "Someone Like You" (2000), "Pistols of Power" (2000)
• songwriter

• b. 1945 in Lubbock, TX
• country/folk singer
• instruments: guitar, harmonica
• "Dirt Road Song" (1978, he wrote), "Little Coyote Waltz" (1978, he wrote), "You've Never Seen Me Cry" (1978, he wrote), "Wild Horses Chase the Wind" (1979, he wrote), "Ghost of Give and Take Avenue" (1980, he wrote), "Firewater" (1981, he wrote), "The Wind's Dominion" (1981, he wrote), "Like the Light at Dawn" (1981, he wrote), "One Road More" (1981, he wrote), "Boxcars" (1995, he wrote), "Junkyard in the Sun" (1995, he wrote), "Barefoot Prints" (2000, he wrote), "Long Sunsets" (2000, he wrote), "You Coulda Walked Around the World" (2000, he wrote), "Damage Done" (2006, he wrote), "Between Wars" (2006, he wrote), "The Devil in Us All" (2006, he wrote)
• founding member of Flatlanders (1970-73, and reunions), "The Heart You Left Behind" (1990), "South Wind of Summer" (1998, he co-wrote), "Right Where I Belong" (2002, he co-wrote), "My Wildest Dreams Grow Wilder Every Day" (2002, he co-wrote), "Neon of Nashville" (2004), "Once Followed By the Wind" (2004), "Wishin' for You" (2004)
• songwriter
• photographer; architect

• b. 1973 in Taylorsville, KY
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Slow Down Sunrise" (2002), "Goodbye on a Bad Day" (#28c 2002, he co-wrote), "Dream Your Way to Me" (#46c 2002, he co-wrote), "This Old Heart" (2002), "Just Like a Redneck" (#48c 2004, he co-wrote)
• songwriter
• md. to DJ, Mandy Snider
• see Shannon Lawson Fans

• b. 1931 near Strong, AR - d. 13 May 2003 (heart attack)
• country singer
• instruments: guitar, bass
• "Walkin' by My Lonesome" (1957), "Go Right Back" (1957), "Dee Dee Darlin'" (1963), "Deep in My Heart" (1964), "Let's Try Again" (1967)
• founding member of The Kenny Smith Trio

• b. 1942 in Newnan, GA
• country/rock/folk/blues singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Crash on the Levee" (1970), "Many Rivers" (1972, he wrote), "Montgomery in the Rain" (1972, he wrote), "Alabama Highway" (1975, he wrote), "We've Been Together on This Earth Before" (1975, he wrote), "Old Memories" (1976, he wrote), "It's Not Supposed to Be This Way" (#84c 1977, he wrote), "Switchblades of Love" (1993, he wrote), "Shelter You" (1993, he wrote)
• with Stone Country (1968), "Wheels on Fire" (1968), "Magnolias" (1968)
• songwriter, wrote The Eagles' "Seven Bridges Road" (#21, #55c 1981)
• mail carrier
• father of singer/songwriter, Jubal Lee Young
• see Steve Young

• b. 1958 in Madison, TN - d. 24 Oct 2003 in TN (accidental carbon monoxide poisoning)
• bluegrass/country singer
• "Amazing Grace" (1993), "Angel From Montgomery" (1997)
• duet with Johnny Cash, "Father and Daughter (Father and Son)" (1974)
• duet with Johnny Cash and June Carter, "Little Green Fountain" (1975), "Daddy Sang Bass" (1997)
• duet with June Carter, "Wabash Cannonball" (1997)
• backup singer with June Carter, Johnny Cash, Phillip Adams, and others
• songwriter
• daughter of singer, June Carter Cash and Edwin Nix
• md. to Phillip Adams (2000-03, her death)
• died in a tour bus where propane and kerosene lanterns were being used
• see The Carter Family

• b. 1964 in Dallas, TX - d. 27 Jul 2004 (heart attack)
• country/Christian singer
• with Ramblin' Fever
• with The Texas Legend Band
• with Crimson, "I Can Almost See Heaven" (2002)
• backup singer
• orthodontic assistant

• b. 1954 in Corpus Christi, TX
• country singer
• instruments: banjo, guitar, fiddle, bass, upright bass, mandolin, accordion, drums, autoharp, synthesizer
• "(You Sure Know Your Way) Around My Heart" (#35c 1982), "Some of My Best Friends Are Old Songs" (#20c 1982), "Save Me" (#6c 1983), "Runaway Heart" (#13c 1983), "I'm Not Through Loving You Yet" (#7c 1984), "Devil in a Fast Car" (1985), "Maybe My Baby" (#8c 1985), "I Wanna Say Yes" (#5c 1985), "Do I Have to Say Goodbye?" (#28c 1987)
• duets with R.C. Bannon, "I Thought You'd Never Ask" (#46c 1981), "Reunited" (#13c 1979), "Our Wedding Bands" (#56c 1981), "Christmas is Just a Song for Us This Year" (#35c 1983)
• songwriter
• sister of Barbara and Irlene Mandrell
• md. to R.C. Bannon (1979- ), md. to Gary Buck; md. to John Haywood (1993- )

• b. 1959 in Van Wert, OH
• country/swing singer
• instruments: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 6-string bass guitar
• "Hot-Wired" (1997), "Blue Water Girl" (1997)
• duets with Randy Mason, "December" (2004), "Nothing to it" (2004), "Since I Fell for You" (2004), "Last-Minute Waltz" (2006), "Real Bad Blues" (2006), "Hip Pocket" (2006)
• session musician with Alan Jackson, George Strait, Brooks and Dunn, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Trisha Yearwood, Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins, and others
• songwriter, co-wrote McBride and the Ride's "Hurry Sundown" (#17c 1993); Clinton Gregory's "Play, Ruby, Play" (#25c 1992)
• brother of drummer, Randy Mason
• see Brent Mason

• b. 1962 in Manhattan, NY (grew up in Los Angeles, CA)
• country singer
• instrument: keyboards
• "Cry Wolf" (#57c 1994, she co-wrote), "Forgiveness" (#58c 1995, she co-wrote), "Where Your Road Leads" (1995), "Just to Say We Did" (1997), "In Spite of it All" (1997), "Wild Rose" (1997)
• songwriter, co-wrote Garth Brooks' "The River" (#1c 1992); Doug Stone's "Too Busy Being in Love" (#1c 1993); John Michael Montgomery's "I Love the Way You Love Me" (#60, #1c 1992)
• md. to Bob Locknar (1992- )
• see Victoria Shaw

• b. 1908 in Webb City, MO – d. 26 Apr 1974 in Apple Valley, CA
• country singer (tenor), guitar
• with The Rocky Mountaineers (1932)
• with The Pioneer Trio (1933-34)
• founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers (1933-36, 1938-49), "Nellie's Blue Eyes" (1934), "Moonlight on the Prairie" (1934), "Hills of Old Montana" (1934), "Cowboy's Dance Song" (1934), "Let Me Keep My Memories" (1943), "No One to Cry to" (#6c 1946), "Home in Oklahoma" (1946), "Cool Water" (#4c 1947, he co-wrote), "Teardrops in My Heart" (#4c 1947, #7c 1948), "The Everlasting Hills of Oklahoma" (1947), "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (#11c 1948, he co-wrote), "Room Full of Roses" (#26, #10c 1949, he co-wrote), "The Timber Trail" (1949), "Santa Fe, New Mexico" (1949)
• the Sons of the Pioneers backing Roy Rogers, "Blue Shadows on the Trail" (#6c 1948), "That Palomino Pal of Mine" (1949)
• songwriter, wrote Red Foley's "Careless Kisses" (#8c 1950)

• b. 1963/65 in Birmingham, AL
• country singer
• founding member of Thrasher Shiver, "Run Like the Wind" (1996), "You and I Belong" (1996), "Goin', Goin', Gone" (#65c 1996, he co-wrote), "Be Honest" (#49c 1997)
• songwriter, co-wrote, Kenny Chesney's "There Goes My Life" (#29, #1c 2004), "I Lost it" (#34, #3c 2000), "How Forever Feels" (#27, #1c 1999); Diamond Rio's "That's What I Get for Loving You" (#4c 1996); Andy Grigg's "How Cool is That?" (#22c 2001); Reba McEntire's "What Do You Say?" (#31, #3c 1999); Jeff Carson's "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)" (#14c 2001); Rascal Flatts' "Fast Cars and Freedom" (#38, #1c 2005), "Take Me There" (#1c 2007)

• b. 1962 in Kirksville, MO
• country/bluegrass singer
• instruments: fiddle, guitar, bass, mandolin, dobro, banjo
• "Just for Old Times Sake" (1990), "A Far Cry from You" (1990), "Birmingham Turnaround" (1991), "An Old Memory (Found its Way Back Home Again)" (1996), "Driving Nails in My Coffin" (2001), "You Can't Take it with You When You Go" (#58c 2002), "If Heartaches Had Wings" (#48c 2004), "I've Forgotten You" (#59c 2005)
• songwriter

• b. 1960 in Phoenix, AZ (grew up in Scottsdale, AZ)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Livin' the Dream" (2004), "When I Let You Go" (2004)
• founding member of McBride and the Ride (1989-93, 2001- ), "Can I Count on You?" (#15c 1991), "Same Old Star" (#28c 1991), "Sacred Ground" (#2c 1992), "Going Out of My Mind" (#5c 1992), "Just One Night" (#5c 1992), "Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run" (#3c 1993), "No More Cryin'" (#26c 1993), "Hurry Sundown" (#17c 1993), "Anything That Touches You" (#50c 2002)
• session guitarist with Lyle Lovett, and others
• backup singer with Aaron Tippin, Marty Stuart, and others
• songwriter, co-wrote Kenny Chesney's "Me and You" (#2c 1996)
• see McBride and the Ride on Wikipedia

• b. 1961 in Somerville, MA - 21 May 2006 in AL (auto accident)
• country singer
• instrument: bass
• with Billy Walker's band The Tennessee Walkers, "On My Mind Again" (#12c 1957), "I Wish You Love" (#19c 1960), "Charlie's Shoes" (#1c 1962), "Willie the Weeper" (#5c 1962), "Circumstances" (#7c 1964), "Cross the Brazos at Waco" (#2c 1964), "If it Pleases You" (#8c 1965), "Million and One" (#2c 1966), "I Taught Her Everything She Knows" (#11c 1968), "Sundown Mary" (#18c 1968), "From the Bottle to the Bottom" (#20c 1969), "When a Man Loves a Woman" (#3c 1970), "I'm Gonna Keep on Lovin' You" (#3 1970), "Gone (Our Endless Love)" (#24c 1972), "She goes Walking Through My Mind" (#3c 1971), "Love You All to Pieces" (#67c 1976), and others
• founding member of Lee, Weller, and the Other Guy
• founding member and lead of Formerly With
• sessionist with Joe Diffie, Johnny Russell, and others
• killed in the same accident as Billy Walker and Danny Patton
• see Charles Everett Lilly, Jr.

• b. 1932/33 in Sparta, NC - d. 1 Jan 2007 in Centerville, TN (emphysema)
• country/pop singer
• instruments: guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo, piano
• "You're Not the Changing Kind" (1957), "Be Quiet Mind" (#9c 1961), "The Only Girl I Can't Forget" (#13c 1963, he wrote), "The Girl on the Billboard" (#96, #1c 1965), "The Belles of Southern Bell" (#4c 1965), "This Must Be the Bottom" (#27c 1966, he co-wrote), "A Dime at a Time" (#1c 1967), "Good-Time Charlie's (Got the Blues)" (#3c 1968), "Lookin' at the World Through a Windshield" (#5c 1968), "Anything Goes for the Love of Rose" (1968), "Be Glad" (#5c 1969), "A Lover's Question" (#14c 1970), "Right Back Loving You Again" (#22c 1970), "Philadelphia Fillies" (#9c 1971), "A Dozen Pairs of Boots" (#31c 1971), "The Best is Yet to Come" (#29c 1972), "A Gathering of My Memories" (1972), "Lay a Little Lovin' on Me" (#22c 1973), "But I Do" (#65c 1975), "Puttin' in Overtime at Home" (#74c 1975)
• duets with Penny DeHaven, "Landmark Tavern" (#20c 1970), "Crying in the Rain" (#54c 1971)
• duets with Billie Jo Spears, "On the Rebound" (#29c 1976), "Teardrops Will Kiss the Morning Dew" (#42c 1976)
• duet with Liz Lyndell, "If You Think I Love You Now" (1980)
• songwriter
• actor
• served in the Air Force

• b. 1949 in Phoenix, AZ
• country singer
• "The Last Lie I Told Her" (#99c 1978), "I Know I'm Not Your Hero Anymore" (#91c 1979), "Those You Lose" (#62c 1984)
• son of singer, Marty Robbins and his wife, Marizona
• songwriter

• b. 1953 in TX
• western swing musician, instruments: sax, clarinet, flute
• with Asleep at the Wheel (1976-77), "Nothin' Takes the Place of You" (#35c 1976), "Route 66" (#48c 1976), "Miles and Miles of Texas" (#38c 1977)
• see Asleep at the Wheel

• b. 1956 in Washington, D.C.
• bluegrass singer
• instruments: banjo, guitar
• founding member of The Johnson Mountain Boys (1978-87, 1996- ), "I'm Still to Blame" (1983), "Say You'll Take Me Back" (1983), "Five Speed" (1983, he wrote), "Making up Stories" (1984), "I'll Never See You Anymore" (1984), "Let the Whole World Talk" (1987), "Memories That We Shared" (1987)
• songwriter

• b. 19?? in >Los Angeles, CA
• country singer
• * "Wednesday Kisses" (2002), "He'll Promise You the Moon" (2002), "I Was Leavin' Anyway" (2002)
• see Vicki Vann

• b. 1927 in Eugene, OR
• country singer
• "Dirty Work" (#26c 1978, he wrote), "Then You'll Remember" (#25c 1978, he wrote), "Love is Hours in the Making" (#84c 1979, he wrote)
• songwriter, wrote Gary Stewart's "In Some Room Above the Street" (#15c 1976); Kenny Starr's "The Blind Man in the Bleachers" (#1c 1975); Cal Smith's "Thunderstorms" (#33c 1976); Henson Cargill's "Silence on the Line" (#29c 1980)

• b. 1913 in Blue Creek, OK or Adams County, OH – d. 5 Mar 1963 near Camden, TN
• country/honky-tonk singer
• instrument: guitar, fiddle
• "Filipino Baby" (#4c 1946), "Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)" (#17c 1946), "Please Answer My Letter" (1946), "Tennessee Waltz" (#3c 1948), "Tennessee Moon" (#7c 1948), "Signed, Sealed and Delivered" (#2c 1948, he co-wrote), "I'm Waltzing with Tears in My Eyes" (#18c 1949, he co-wrote), "Candy Kisses" (#5c 1949), "It's Wrong to Love You, But I Do" (1949), "An Old Farm for Sale" (1949), "Down in Nashville, Tennessee" (1949), "A Package of Lies Tied in Blue" (1949), "Signed, Sealed, Then Forgotten" (1950), "The Postman Just Passes Me By" (1950), "Road of Broken Hearts" (1950), "The Strange Little Girl" (#5c 1951), "I Can't Remember to Forget" (1952), "Purple Rose" (1952), "Carbon Copy" (1954), "I'll Waltz With You in My Dreams" (1954), "Blue Kimono" (1957), "Looking for an Angel" (1958), "Black Cloud Raisin'" (1959), "Alabam" (#63, #1c 1960, he wrote), "That's All I Can Remember" (1960), "Settin' Flat on Ready" (1960), "Flat Top" (#9c 1961, he co-wrote), "You Walked Right Out of My Dreams" (1961), "Sunny Tennessee" (#12c 1961, he wrote), "A Thousand Miles of Ocean" (1961), "Signed, Sealed and Delivered" (re-recorded, #10c 1961, he co-wrote), "Seven Seas From You" (1962), "Autobiography" (1963), "Goodbye Kisses" (#12c 1963, he co-wrote)
• with Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys (1945- )
• duets with Hawkshaw Hawkins, "Don't Let Them Change Your Mind" (1963), "You go Your Way, I'll Go Mine" (1963)
• duet with Ruby Wright, "I'll Never Be More Shackled" (1950)
• duet with Cathy Copas, "You'll Never See Me Cry" (1951)
• songwriter
• he died in the same plane crash as Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes (his son-in-law)

• b. 1914 in near West Alexander, PA - d. 10 Dec 1996
• country singer; yodeler
• instrument: fiddle
• "I Wish I Knew" (#8c 1949), "I Would Send You Roses (But They Cost Too Much)" (1949), "Ask My Heart" (1950), "Waltzing My Blues Away" (1950), "When a Dream is Broken in Two" (1950), "You Gave Me Back My Ring (Please Give Me Back My Heart)" (1951), "Teardrops on the Roses" (1951)
• served in the Marines during WWII
• md. to singer, Ruth Arlene Johnson

• b. 1957 in Red Bay, AL (grew up in Belmont, MS)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "It's a Crazy World" (#37 1977, he wrote), "Back Where I Come From" (#14c 1990, he wrote), "Live and Learn" (#62c 1992, he wrote), "The Trouble with Diamonds" (#72c 1992, he wrote), "Junk Cars" (#72c 1993, he wrote)
• session musician with Ricky Skaggs, Don Williams, Keith Whitley, and others
• songwriter, wrote Shenandoah's "Two Dozen Roses" (#1c 1989); T.G. Sheppard's "One-Owner Heart" (#4c 1985), "You're My First Lady" (#2c 1987); Alabama's "Old Flame" (#1c 1981); Ricky Van Shelton's "Crime of Passion" (#7c 1987)
• co-wrote Sawyer Brown's "Café on the Corner" (#5c 1992), "All These Years" (#3c 1993), "Thank God for You" (#1c 1993), "The Boys and Me" (#4c 1994), "This Time" (#2c 1995)
• music producer
• see Mac McAnally

• b. 1957 in Detroit, MI
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Don't Shoot, Let's Talk" (2000), "It Ain't Easy" (2000)
• founding member, lead singer and lead guitarist of The Gibson/Miller Band (1990- ), "Big Heart" (#37c 1993), "High Rollin'" (#20c 1993), "Texas Tattoo" (#22c 1993), "Stone Cold Country" (#40c 1993), "Red, White and Blue Collar" (#59c 1994), "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys" (#49c 1994), "All Because of You" (1994), "Sudden Stop" (1994)
• see The Gibson/Miller Band on WikipediA

• b. 1946 in Tucson, AZ
• country/folk/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Long Long Time" (1970), "When Will I Be Loved?" (#2, #1c 1975), "Hey Mister, That's Me on the Jukebox" (1975), "You're No Good" (#1 1975), "Heat Wave" (#5 1975), "I Can't Help it (if I'm Still in Love with You)" (#2c 1975), "Love is a Rose" (#63, #5c 1975), "The Tracks of My Tears" (#25, #11c 1975), "That'll Be the Day" (#11, #26c 1976), "Crazy" (#6c 1977), "It's So Easy" (#5, #81c 1977), "Blue Bayou (#3, #2c 1977), "I Never Will Marry" (#8c 1978), "Ooh Baby Baby" (#7, #85c 1978), "Tumbling Dice" (#32 1978), "Hurt So Bad" (#8 1980), "I Knew You When" (#37, #84c 1982), "Someone to Watch Over Me" (#2 1984)
• founding member of Stone Poneys (1965-68), "Different Drum" (#13 1968, One-Hit Wonder), "I've Got to Know" (1967)
• with Trio, "To Know Him is to Love Him" (#1c 1987), "Telling Me Lies" (#35, #3c 1987), "Those Memories of You" (#5c 1987), "Wildflowers" (#6c 1988), "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?" (1999)
• duet with Jack Ingram, "Somewhere Out There" (#2 1987)
• duet with Hoyt Axton, "When the Morning Comes" (#10 1974)
• duets with Aaron Neville, "Don't Know Much" (#2c 1989), "All My Life" (#11 1990)
• duet with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, "American Dream" (#13, #58c 1980)
• duet with J.D. Souther, "Sometimes You Just Can't Win" (#27c 1982)
• duet with Emmylou Harris, "The Sweetest Gift" (#12c 1976)
• duet with Paul Simon, "Under African Skies" (1986)
• songwriter
• actress
• quotes by Linda Ronstadt: "Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious."
  "We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case."
• see Linda Ronstadt

• b. 1940 in Gulfport, MS (grew up in Atlanta, GA)
• country singer
• instrument: 12-string guitar
• "It Won't Be Easy to Forget" (1958), "Frankie's Man Johnny" (#13c 1959), "Nobody's Darling But Mine" (#13c 1960), "My Baby Walks All Over Me" (#27c 1964), "If it Wasn't for Hard Luck" (1965), "My Old Faded Rose" (#19c 1965), "Hitchin' and Hikin'" (1965), "Day for Decision" (#35, #14c 1966, answer to Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction", One-Hit Wonder), "Goin' to Tulsa" (#68c 1968), "Three Six-Packs, Two Arms and a Juke Box" (#32c 1968)
• songwriter

• b. 1933 in Quebec, Canada
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Walkin' Dream" (1958), "The Lumberjack" (#5c 1964, he co-wrote), "So Right But So Wrong" (1964), "Thumb and Shoes" (1965), "Doggin' in the U.S. Mail" (#45c 1966, he co-wrote)
• songwriter

• b. 196? in Nashville, TN
• country singer
• instruments: guitar, sitar
• * "Do You Ever Think of Me" (2000), "Little Bit of You" (2000), "When the Roses Bloom Again" (2002), "All the Same to You" (2002), "Broken Again" (2002)
• songwriter

• b. 1968 in Edmond, OK
• country/rock musician, instruments: drums, percussions
• founding member and drummer of Great Divide (1992- ), "Rather Have Nothin'" (1995), "Pour Me a Vacation" (#59c 1998), "Never Could" (#74c 1998), "Yesterday Road" (1999), "Ain't about to Fall" (2000), "Lost in the Night" (2002), "If Not for You" (2002), "Just Another Day" (2005), "Love and Gasoline" (2005), "Spanning Time" (2006)

• b. 1965 in Kingston Springs, TN
• country singer
• "Something to Write Home About" (#38c 2000), "Almost Home" (#59, #6c 2002), "Every Friday Afternoon" (#25c 2003), "That's What I Love about Sunday" (#51, #1c 2005), "Redneck Yacht Club" (#45, #2c 2005), "I Got You" (#92, #12c 2006), "Little Bit of Life" (#75, #7c 2006), "Tough" (#94, #13c 2007)
• songwriter
• served in the Army in Korea and Panama (1985-95)
• performs frequently for the USO

• b. 19?? in Gainesville, FL or Columbus, GA
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Chicks in Boots" (1998), "Hero" (2002), "Gloryland" (#56c 2005), "Fight I Couldn't Win" (2005), "Prove Them Wrong" (2005)
• founding member of Cornbread (1996-2000)
• duet with Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill, "Not Me" (#47c 2005)
• songwriter
• served in the Army (1991- ), earned the Bronze Star

• b. 1949
• country musician, instrument: piano
• with Earl Scruggs Revue, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (1972), "Step it up and Go" (1973), "Good Morning Sundown" (1974), "Harley" (1976), "Stay a Little Longer" (1977), "I Could Sure Use the Feeling" (#30c 1979), "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (#46c 1980)
• session musician with Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, and others

• b. 1952 in Helena, MT (grew up in Kansas City, MO) – d. 16 Dec 1997 in Los Angeles, CA (cerebral edema)
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Lotta Love" (#8 1978), "When You Come Around" (1980), "Only Love Can Make it Right" (#42c 1985), "When You Get a Little Lonely" (#46c 1985), "Building Bridges" (#72c 1985), "Fool Me Again" (1999)
• with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (1975-78), "That's What I Like about the South" (1975)
• duet with Steve Wariner, "That's How You Know When Love's Right" (#9c 1986)
• duet with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, "Make a Little Magic" (#77c 1980)
• backup singer with Ian Tyson, Emmylou Harris, Linda Rondstadt, Rodney Crowell, Hoyt Axton, Willie Nelson, and others
• songwriter
• actress
• md. to drummer, Russell Kunkel

• b. 1918 in Charleston, WV – d. 4 Apr 1980 in Nashville, TN (heart attack while driving)
• country/honky-tonk singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Hold Everything (Till I Get Home)" (#5c 1956), "No Money in This Deal" (1960), "Rose of Love" (1962), "She Can't Read My Writing" (1962), "Dream House for Sale" (#22c 1964), "Salt on My Eggs" (1965), "A Kiss and the Keys" (1965), "Giddyup Go" (#82, #1c 1966, he co-wrote), "I Think I Can Sleep Tonight" (1966), "Class of '49" (#44c 1966, he co-wrote), "Sweet Nellie" (1966), "Rosebuds and You" (1967), "I Didn't Jump the Fence" (1967), "Not Like it Was With You" (1967), "Tell Maude I Slipped" (1967), "Phantom 309" (#9c 1967, #47c 1976), "Normally, Norma Loves Me" (1968), "Between Closing Time and Dawn" (1968), "Savannah, Georgia Vagrant" (1968), "Sparkling Wine" (1968), "The Father of Judy Ann" (1968), "A Railroad Trestle in California" (1969), "That Was Once Upon a Time" (1970), "Unfinished Letter" (1970), "It'll Come Back" (#16c 1974), * "Daisy's Chain" (1975), * "Daddy's Girl" (#91c 1975), "Teddy Bear" (#40, #1c 1976, he co-wrote), "Little Joe" (#45c 1976), "The Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel" (#92c 1978, he co-wrote), "Legend of a Christmas Rose" (1978), "Lay Down, Sally" (#70c 1978), "The Days of Me and You" (1978), "A Place for Mama's Roses" (1978), "Colorado Kool-Aid" (1979), "The Prettiest Dress" (1979), "The First Time I Saw Her" (1980), "She Was Loving Me Goodbye" (1980)
• duet with Webb Pierce, * "Why, Baby, Why?" (#1c 1956), "Little Rosa" (#5c 1961, he co-wrote)
• duet with Goldie Hill, "Are You Mine?" (#15c 1955)
• songwriter

• b. 1949 in Portsmouth, OH
• country/rock singer
• instrument: lead guitar, electric guitar, bass
• founding member of Pure Prairie League (1970-72, 1985-87, 1998- ), "Boulder Skies" (1972, he wrote), "Falling in and Out of Love" (1972, he wrote), "Amie" (#27 1974, recorded 1972, he wrote)
• Pure Prairie League's name came from a women's temperance group in the 1939 movie Dodge City
• with American Flyer (1976- )
• with Little Feat (1987- , replaced Lowell George), "Six Feet of Snow" (1979), "Wake Up Dreaming" (1979), "Front Page News" (1979), "Texas Twister" (1990)
• songwriter
• see Pure Prairie League

• b. 1962 in Shreveport, LA
• country musician, instrument: bass
• founding member of The Cactus Brothers (1992-96), "Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl" (1993), "One More Night with You" (1993), "This Love's Gonna Fly" (1995), "Secret Language" (1995), "A Woman's Touch" (1995)
• founding member of Walk the West (1984-89), "Do You Wanna Dance?" (1986), "Precious Times" (1986), "Think it Over" (1986)

• b. 1954 in Harlan, KY
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• with Exile (1989-95, replaced Les Taylor), "Keep it in the Middle of the Road" (#17c 1990), "Nobody's Talking" (#2c 1990), "Yet" (#7c 1990), "Even Now" (#16c 1991)

• b. 1956/59 in Philadelphia, PA
• country/pop singer
• "Manuel, Goodbye" (1983), "Little River" (1983), "Jim, Jeff and Johnny" (1985), "Yellow Rose of Texas" (1986), "Never Wanna Dance (When I'm Blue)" (1988), "Shadows of Love" (1990)
• songwriter
• actress
• md. to Donald Berkowitz

• b. 1947 in Ferriday, LA
• country singer
• instruments: keyboards, piano
• "Small Red Diary" (1965), "T-H-E E-N-D" (1969), "He Loved Me Much Too Much (Much Too Long)" (1969), "Southside Soul Society, Chapter No. 1" (1969), "My Heart Was the Last One to Know" (1970), "Smile, Somebody Loves You" (#39c 1972)
• duet with Jerry Lee Lewis, "Don't Let Me Cross Over" (#9c 1969)
• duets with Van Morrison, "You Win Again" (2000), "Let's Talk about Us" (2000), "Baby (You've Got What it Takes)" (2000)
• session musician
• songwriter
• author
• younger sister of Jerry Lee Lewis
• see Linda Gail Lewis

• b. 1954 (maybe Aug 18) in Brushey Creek, KY or Cordell, KY
• country/bluegrass/Western Swing/honky-tonk singer
• instrument: mandolin, acoustic guitar, fiddle, banjo
• "I'll Take the Blame" (#86c 1980), "Cryin' My Heart Out Over You" (#1c 1982), "I Don't Care" (#1c 1982), "Heartbroke" (#1c 1982), "I Wouldn't Change You if I Could" (#1c 1983), "Highway 40 Blues" (#1c 1983), "Don't Cheat in Your Hometown" (#1c 1983), "Honey (Open That Door)" (#1c 1984), "Uncle Pen" (#1c 1984), "Country Boy" (#1c 1985), "Cajun Moon" (#1c 1986), "Lovin' Only Me" (#1c 1989), "Let it Be You" (#5c 1989), "Life's Too Long to Live Like This" (#37c 1991), "Cat's in the Cradle" (#45c 1995), "Can't Control the Wind" (1995), "Drunken Driver" (1997), "Halfway Home Café" (#56c 2001)
• founding member of Boone Creek (1976-78)
• with J.D. Crowe and the New South (1975, 1978), "I'm Walkin'" (1975), "Will You Be Lonesome, Too?" (1978), "My Window Faces the South" (1978)
• with The Clinch Mountain Boys (1973-74), "How Far to Little Rock?" (1973)
• The Clinch Mountain Boys were also known as The Stanley Brothers
• with The Country Gentlemen (1970-72), "Yesterday" (1971), "The Girl Behind the Bar" (1972), "Secret of the Waterfall" (1972)
• with Emmylou Harris' band (1977-80), "I'll Take the Blame" (#86c 1980)
• duet with Sharon White, * "Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This" (#10c 1987)
• with Del and Ronnie McCoury, and David Grisman, "Boston Boy" (1999)
• played fiddle and guitar with The Whites
• songwriter
• md. to Sharon White (1981- )
• see Charlie Waller

• b. 1941 in El Paso, TX
• pop/jazz/country singer
• "I'll Walk the Rest of the Way" (1962), "Beside a Bridge" (1962), "Until Today" (1966), "It Must Be Him" (#3 1967), "The Lesson" (#34 1968), "Your Heart is Free Just Like the Wind" (#91 1968), "Don't Break My Pretty Balloon" (1968), "With Pen in Hand" (#35, #6c 1969), "Eternity" (#79 1969)
• humanitarian

• b. 1944 in Ann Arbor, MI or b. in Boise, ID (grew up in Brooklyn, NY)
• country/rockabilly/rock/honky-tonk/western swing singer
• instrument: piano
• "Midnight Man" (1977, he wrote)
• founding member and leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (1967-76), "Hot Rod Lincoln" (#9, #51c 1972, One-Hit Wonder), "Truck-Stop Rock" (1972), "It Should've Been Me" (1972), "That's What I Like about the South" (1975)
• founding member and leader of the Commander Cody Band (1977- ), "Rock 'n' Roll Again" (1977), "Either He's Wrong" (1980), "Roll the Dice" (1980, he wrote)
• session musician with New Riders of the Purple Sage, and others
• actor

• b. 1937 in Winston-Salem, NC
• folk/country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" (#6 1956), "Now and for Always" (#25 1958), "Lucy, Lucy" (1958), "Before This Day Ends" (#4c 1960), "Three Steps to the Phone (Millions of Miles)" (#9c 1961), "To You and Yours (From Me and Mine)" (1961), "Commerce Street and Sixth Avenue North" (1962), "Abilene" (#15, #1c 1963), "Why Don't They Understand?" (#10 1963), "If You Don't Know (I Ain't Gonna Tell You)" (#6c 1963, he wrote), "Linda with the Lonely Eyes" (#25c 1964), "Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston" (#9c 1964), "Truck Drivin' Man" (#11c 1965), "You Better Not Do That" (1966), "Early Morning Rain" (#9c 1966), "Break My Mind" (#6c 1967), "Song for a Winter's Night" (1967), "Wonderful World of My Dreams" (1968), "Canadian Pacific" (#25c 1969), "She's a Little Bit Country" (#3c 1970), * "Countryfied" (#35c 1971), "West Texas Highway" (#23c 1971), "Country Music in My Soul" (#63c 1972), "Ways of a Country Girl" (1974), "Blue Jeans, Ice Cream and Saturday Shows" (1976), "In the Palm of Her Hand" (1977)
• songwriter
• see George Hamilton IV

• b. 1906 in Sullivan, IL - d. 13 Dec 1971 in Denver, CO
• country/swing/Dixieland jazz/novelty singer
• instruments: banjo, drums
• founding member of the Tiny Hill Orchestra (1935-71), "Sioux City Sue" (#3c 1946), "Skirts" (1946), "Never Trust a Woman" (#5c 1948), "Hot Rod Race" (#7c 1951), "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" (#10c 1951), "Pick Up Truck" (1951), "Two Letters" (1951)
• he weighed over 300 lbs.

• b. 1947 in Minneapolis, MN
• country/rock/pop singer
• instruments: guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin
• founding member of The Eagles (1971-76), "Take it Easy" (#12 1972), "Witchy Woman" (#9 1972), "Peaceful Easy Feeling" (#22 1973), "Already Gone" (#32 1974), "Lyin' Eyes" (#2, #8c 1975), "Best of My Love" (#1 1975), "One of These Nights" (#1 1975), "New Kid in Town" (#1, #43c 1976), "Take it to the Limit" (#4 1976)
• with the Flying Burrito Brothers (1969-71), "Tried So Hard" (1971), "Just Can't Be" (1971), "Colorado" (1971)
• with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1988-89), "I've Been Lookin'" (#2c 1988), "Working Man (Nowhere to Go)" (#4c 1988), "Down That Road Tonight" (#6c 1989), "Turn of the Century" (#27c 1989), "When it's Gone" (#10c 1989), "Mary Danced With Soldiers" (1989)
• the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and John Denver, "And So it Goes" (#14c 1989)
• the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roseanne Cash and John Hiatt, "One Step Over the Line" (#63c 1990)
• founding member of Dillard and Clark (1968-69), "The Radio Song" (1969)
• with Linda Ronstadt's band
• songwriter
• see The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

• b. 1937 in Okemah, OK (grew up in Tulsa, OK)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "I Hurt Me (Instead of You)" (1963), "Sounds Like a Winner" (1964), "You Read Between the Lines" (#62c 1978), "Until the Next Time" (#50 1978), "I'll Drink to That" (#53c 1981), "I See an Angel Every Day" (#51c 1982), "(Who's Gonna Sing) the Last Country Song?" (#41c 1982), "If I Ever Need a Lady" (#53c 1982), "One More Last Time" (1990)
• duet with Cal Smith, "Love Don't Know a Lady (From a Honky-Tonk Girl)" (#59c 1983)
• with Ernest Tubb's Troubadors (1968-70)
• DJ

• b. 1963/65 in Savannah, TN
• country singer
• founding member of Thrasher Shiver, "Run Like the Wind" (1996), "You and I Belong" (1996), "Goin', Goin', Gone" (#65c 1996), "Be Honest" (#49c 1997, he co-wrote)
• songwriter, co-wrote, Kenny Chesney's "There Goes My Life" (#29, #1c 2004), "I Lost it" (#34, #3c 2000); Diamond Rio's "That's What I Get for Lovin' You" (#4c 1996); Andy Grigg's "How Cool is That?" (#22c 2001)

• b. 1925/26 in Nevada, MO (grew up in San Jose, CA)
• country/pop singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)" (#5 1961), "Norman" (#3 1961), "Throwin' Kisses" (1961), "James (Hold the Ladder Steady)" (#17 1962), "Have a Good Time" (#31 1962), "If the Boy Only Knew" (1962), "True Confession" (1963), "Cause I Ask You to" (1963), "It's 12:35" (1963), "Paper Tiger" (#23 1965), "Just Kiss Me" (1965), "From My Balcony" (1966), "Ferris Wheel" (1967), "Straight to Helen" (1967), "Whole Lot of Walkin'" (1970), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Tonight?" (1970), "Candy and Roses" (#72c 1972), "Never Naughty Rosie" (#95c 1976)
• duets with Don Gibson, "The Two of Us Together" (#50c 1971), "Over There's a Door" (1972), "I Think They Call it Love" (#37c 1972), "Go with Me" (#52c 1973), "Good Old-Fashioned Country Love" (#31c 1974), "I Can't Tell My Heart That" (1975)
• duets with Hank Penny, "Walkin' in the Snow" (1954), "Walkin' to Missouri" (1957)
• songwriter
• md. 2nd to Dude Martin; md. 3rd to Hank Penny (1953-63)

• b. 1940 in Jackson, TN
• country singer
• instruments: guitar, electric guitar
• guitarist with McBride and the Ride (1994-95), "Somebody Will" (#57c 1995)
• with Marty Stuart's band
• session guitarist with John Corbett, Emmylou Harris, and others
• see McBride and the Ride on Wikipedia

• b. 1940 in Jackson, TN
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "It Makes You Happy (to Know You Make Me Blue)" (#48c 1966), "Woman, Won't You Make Up Your Mind" (1968), "The Part in Between" (1970), "That'll Be the Day" (#56c 1972), "Feel So Fine" (#55c 1973)
• duets with LaWanda Lindsey, "Eye to Eye" (#58c 1969), "Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries" (#27c 1970), "Let's Think About Where We're Going" (#51c 1970), "Puzzles of My Mind" (1970), "The Crawdad Song" (#42c 1971)

• b. 1957 in Kansas City, MO - d. 12 Nov in Greeley, CO
• country/rock/bluegrass singer
• instrument: bass
• with The Rough Cut Bluegrass Band
• with Why?oming!
• registered nurse

• b. 1945 in Los Angeles, CA
• country/pop singer
• instrument: piano
• "More Love" (#10 1980), "Bette Davis Eyes" (#1 1981), "Draw of the Cards" (#28 1981), "Does it Make You Remember?" (#36 1983), "Crazy in the Night" (#15 1985)
• duet with Kenny Rogers, "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" (#4 1980)
• with The New Christy Minstrels (1962-70), "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" (1963), "Green, Green" (#14 1963), "Today" (#17 1964)
• duet with Gene Cotton, "You're a Part of Me" (#36, #99c 1978, she wrote)
• songwriter
• actress
• md. to Dave Ellingson
• see The New Christy Minstrels
• see Kim Carnes

• b. 1959 in Del Rio, TX
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• Just Call Me Lonesome" (#10c 1992), "Nobody Wins" (#2c 1993), "Easier Said Than Done" (#20c 1993), "Hammer and Nails" (#34 1993), "Everyday Angel" (#43c 2002), "New Zip Code" (2006)
• founding member of Foster and Lloyd (1987-90), "Texas in 1880" (1987), "Crazy Over You" (#4c 1987), "Sure Thing" (#8c 1988), "What Do You Want from Me This Time?" (1987), "Fair Shake" (#5c 1988), "Suzette" (#48c 1989), "Whoa" (1990), "Is it Love?" (#43c 1990)
• duet with Emmylou Harris, "Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)" (#74c 1999)
• songwriter, co-wrote Sweethearts of the Rodeo's "Since I Found You" (#7c 1986)
• see Radney Foster

• b. 1948 in Winnsboro, SC
• country/rock/pop singer
• instrument: piano
• founding member of The Amazing Rhythm Aces (1974-80, 1994- ), "Third-Rate Romance" (#14, #11c 1975), "Amazing Grace (Used to Be Her Favorite Song)" (#9c 1976), "Dancin' the Night Away" (1976), "If I Just Knew What to Say" (1976), "The End is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)" (#12c 1976), "Ashes of Love" (#100c 1978), "Whispering in the Night" (1979), "I Musta Died and Gone to Texas" (#77c 1980), "Waitin' on Sundown" (1997), "Cold, Cold Rain" (1997), "I Feel Forever" (1997), "Out of the Storm" (1997)
• with Nanci Griffith's band (1987- )
• session musician with Bill Black Combo, Jimi Hendrix, Al Green, and others

• b. 1933 in Happy, TX – d. 14 Feb 1999 (lung cancer)
• rockabilly/pop/country singer
• instrument: rhythm guitar
• "Don't Make Me Cry" (1957), "I Ain't Sharin' Sharon" (1959), "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself" (1959), "Lovey Dovey" (#25 1960, he wrote), "Love Has Many Ways" (1966), "Sixteen Feet of Patio" (1966), "Gypsy Man" (#64c 1968), "Today My Sleepless Nights Came Back to Town" (1968), "This Time Tomorrow" (1968), "God Knows I Love You" (1969), "Back to New Orleans" (1970)
• founding member of The Rhythm Orchids, "Party Doll" (#1 1957, he co-wrote), "I'm Stickin' with You" (#14 1957, he co-wrote), "Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep" (1957), "Hula Love" (#9 1957), "Teasable, Pleasable You" (1958), "Somebody Touched Me" (#22 1958), "C'mon, Baby" (1958), "Hitchhike Back to Georgia" (1964), "Jo Ann" (1964)
• songwriter
• actor
• see Buddy Knox
• see The Rhythm Orchids

• b. 1935 near Smackover, AR
• rockabilly singer (baritone)
• instrument: guitar
• "I'm Through" (1957), "Ridin' Fence" (1961), "Teardrops on a Rose" (1963), "Everybody's Got to Have Somebody (to Love)" (1965), "A Man in My Position" (1966), "Every Day" (#73c 1968), "Blackland Farmer" (#67c 1971)
• pro-wrestler

• b. 1942/44 in Humboldt, TN
• country/pop singer
• instruments: guitar, sax, piano
• "Devil in the Bottle" (#54, #1c 1975), "Tryin' to Beat the Morning Home" (#1c 1975, he co-wrote), "Motels and Memories" (#7c 1975), "Solitary Man" (1976), "Show Me a Man" (#8c 1976), "We Just Live Here (We Don't Love Here Anymore)" (1976), "May I Spend Every New Years With You?" (#37c 1977), "When Can We Do This Again?" (#9c 1978), "Daylight" (#7c 1978), "The Last Cheater's Waltz" (#1c 1979), "You Feel Good All Over" (#4c 1979), "I'll Be Coming Back for More" (#1c 1980), * "I Could Never Dream the Way You Feel" (1980), "Do You Wanna Go to Heaven?" (#1c 1980), "I Feel Like Lovin' You Again" (#1c 1980), * "Let the Little Bird Fly" (1980), * "Smooth Sailin'" (#6c 1980), * "The State of Our Union" (1981), * "I Loved 'em Every One" (#37, #1c 1981), "Party Time" (#1c 1981), "Only One You" (#68, #1c 1981), "Finally" (#58, #1c 1982), "War is Hell (on the Home Front Too)" (#1c 1982), "Slow Burn" (#1c 1983), "Somewhere Down the Line" (#3c 1984), "Doncha?" (#8c 1985), "One-Owner Heart" (#4c 1985), "In Over My Heart" (#9c 1986), "Strong Heart" (#1c 1986), "Half Past Forever (Till I'm Blue in the Heart)" (#2c 1986), "You're My First Lady" (#2c 1987), "One for the Money" (#2c 1987), "Don't Say it with Diamonds (Say it with Love)" (#48c 1988), "You Still Do" (#14c 1988), "Born in a High Wind" (#63c 1991)
• recorded as Brian Stacy, "High School Days" (1966)
• duet with Karen Brooks, "Faking Love" (#1c 1982)
• duet with Clint Eastwood, "Make My Day" (#62, #12c 1984)
• songwriter
• see T.G. Sheppard

• b. b. 1954 in Martinsburg, WV - d. 25 Sep 2006 (heart attack)
• country/western swing/bluegrass/jazz musician, instruments: fiddle, mandolin
• with Billy 'Crash' Craddock's band
• with The Trinity Mountain Boys
• session musician with Johnny Paycheck, and others
• see Jim Unger

• b. 1918 in Mart, TX or Mexia, TX - d. 23 Mar 2006 in Mexia, TX
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "He Knew All the Answers" (1941), "Why Don't I Trust Men?" (1941), "It Never Can Be" (1942), "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" (#5c 1944), "Don't Talk to Me About Men" (1941, she wrote), "Me and the Moon Aren't Speaking" (2006)
• songwriter, wrote Bob Wills' "Cherokee Maiden" (1942), "You're from Texas" (#2c 1944); Ernest Tubb's  "Warm Red Wine" (#8c 1949); Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" (#4 1962); Jerry Wallace's "In the Misty Moonlight" (#19 1964); Jim Reeves' "Anna Marie" (#93, #3c 1958), "This is it" (#88, #1c 1965), "Distant Drums" (#45, #1c 1966); The Ames Brothers' "China Doll" (#38 1960)
• co-wrote Webb Pierce's "I Don't Care" (#1c 1955); Eddy Arnold's "You Don't Know Me" (#10c 1956, also #2 1962 for Ray Charles); Bob Wills' "Sugar Moon" (#1c 1947), "Bubbles in My Beer" (#4c 1948)
• dancer

• b. 1972 in Alberta, Canada
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "My Heart Has a History" (#5c 1996, he co-wrote), "I Do" (#2c 1996, he wrote), "Outside the Frame" (1997), "I Meant to Do That" (#39c 1997, he co-wrote), "What's Come Over You?" (#68c 1998), "That's the Truth" (#47c 1999, he co-wrote), "It's a Beautiful Thing" (#38c 2000), "That Hurts" (#68c 2000), "Small Towns and Big Dreams" (2002)
• songwriter
• pediatric nurse
• md. to Elizabeth Peterson (1997- )
• see Paul Brandt

• b. 1898 in Wise County, VA – d. 8 Jan 1979 in Lodi, CA
• country/bluegrass singer
• instruments: guitar, autoharp
• founding member of The Carter Family (1926-43, and reunions), "Poor Orphan Child" (1927)
• duet with Jimmie Rodgers, "Why There's a Tear in My Eye" (1931)
• duets with Maybelle Carter, "Little Darling Pal of Mine" (1931), "Who's That Knocking at My Window?" (1939), "The Soldier and His Sweetheart" (1939)
• songwriter
• cousin of Maybelle Carter; md. 1st to A.P. Carter (1915-39); md. 2nd to Coy Bayes (1939- )
• see The Carter Family

• b. 1965 in Homer, LA
• bluegrass singer
• instruments: banjo, dobro, fiddle, mandolin, guitar
• founding member of The Cox Family, "My Favorite Memory" (1993), "Backroads" (1993), "Another Lonesome Morning" (1995), "Love of a Lifetime" (1996), "I am Weary (Let Me Rest)" (2000), "Will There Be Stars in My Crown?" (2000)
• son of Willard Cox

• b. 1921 in Delano, TX - d. 1994
• country/rockabilly singer
• instrument: rhythm guitar
• "The Hot Guitar" (1951), "The Same Old Dream About You" (1954), "I Did, I Does and I Do" (1954), "Monkey Business" (1959)
• with The Billy Smith Combo, "Tough" (1963)
• session musician with Johnnie and Jack, Kitty Wells, Hank Williams, The Louvin Brothers, and others
• songwriter, co- wrote Jimmy Wakely's , "Someday You'll Call My Name" (#10c 1949)
• DJ

• b. 1978 in Alberta, Canada
• country singer
• instrument: acoustic guitar
• with 12 Gauge
• lead singer and founding member of Emerson Drive (1995- ), * "I Should Be Sleeping" (#4c 2002), "Fall into Me" (#34, #3c 2002), Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You) (#23c 2003), "Fishin' in the Dark" (2004), "Last One Standing" (#89, #21c 2004), "November" (#41c 2004), "A Good Man" (#19c 2006), "Moments" (#56, #1c 2007), "You Still Own Me" (#35c 2007)
• see Emerson Drive

• b. 1936 in New York, NY (grew up in Tucson, AZ) - d. 9 Aug 2005 in Tucson, AZ (complications of a brain tumor)
• country musician, instruments: pedal steel guitar, dobro
• with George Jones's band (1963- )
• with Loretta Lynn's band (1965-84), "Dear Uncle Sam" (#4c 1966), "You Ain't Woman Enough (to Take My Man)" (#2c 1966), "Don't Come Home Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" (#1c 1967), "Fist City" (#1c 1968), "Your Squaw is in the Warpath" (#3c 1968), "You've Just Stepped in (From Steppin' Out on Me)" (#2c 1968), "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" (#1c 1969), "Coal Miner's Daughter" (#83, #1c 1970), "One's on the Way" (#1c 1971), "Here I Am Again" (#3c 1972), "Love is the Foundation" (#1c 1973), "Rated X" (#1c 1973), "Trouble in Paradise" (#1c 1974), "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill" (#2c 1975), "Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)" (#1c 1976), "She's Got You" (#1c 1977), "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed" (#1c 1978), "I Can't Feel You Anymore" (#3c 1979), and others
• session musician on Sammi Smith's "My Window Faces the South" (#51c 1975), "Today I Started Loving You Again" (#9c 1975); The Osborne Brothers' "Rocky Top" (#33 1968); and with Gene Pitney, Ray Stevens, Ronnie Milsap, Joan Baez, Ray Price, k. d. lang, Porter Wagoner, Floyd Tillman, Billy Walker, Sammy Kershaw, and others

• b. 1951 in Chicago, IL (grew up in Phoenix, AZ)
• country musician, instrument: lead guitar
• "Castaway" (2004), "Blue at Best" (2004), "Ashes" (2004)
• with The Cherry Bombs (Rodney Crowell's road band)
• with The Notorious Cherry Bombs (2002- ), "Making Memories of Us" (2004), "Forever Someday" (2004), Let it Roll, Let it Ride" (2004), "If I Ever Break Your Heart" (2004)
• with Neil Diamond's band (1971-87), "Song Sung Blue" (#1 1972), "If You Know What I Mean" (#11 1976), "Forever in Blue Jeans" (#20 1979, he co-wrote), "Love on the Rocks" (#2 1981), "America" (#8 1981), "Hello Again" (#6 1981), "Yesterday's Songs" (#11 1982), "Heartlight" (#5 1982), "Headed for the Future" (#53 1986)
• with Mark Knopfler's band (1994- )
• with Jack Ingram's Beat up Ford Band (1999), "I Would" (1999), "Work This Out" (1999), "How Many?" (#64c 1999)
• session musician with Gene Vincent, Chubby Checker, The Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Trisha Yearwood, Steve Earle, and others
• songwriter
• music producer
• see Richard Bennett

• b. 19?? in Austin, TX
• country/folk/novelty singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Internet Blues" (2001, he co-wrote), * "Wal-Mart Girl" (2001, he wrote), "In the Moonlight" (2004), "New Horizon" (2004), "Desert Sky" (2004), "Seventeen Again" (2004)
• songwriter
• author

• b. 1947 in Gilmer, TX or Linden, TX
• rock/country singer
• instruments: drums, guitar, keyboards
• "I Can't Stand Still" (1982), "Johnny Can't Read" (#42 1982, he co-wrote), "Dirty Laundry" (#3 1983), "The Boys of Summer" (#5 1984), "All She Wants to Do is Dance" (#9 1985), "Not Enough, in the World" (#34 1985), "Sunset Grill" (#22 1985), "The End of the Innocence" (#8 1989, he co-wrote), "The Heart of the Matter" (#21 1989), "Taking You Home" (#58 2000), "For My Wedding" (#61c 2000)
• founding member of Shiloh, "Tell Her to Get Out of Your Life" (1970)
• founding member and lead singer of The Eagles (1971-82, 1994-95), "Take it Easy" (#12 1972), "Witchy Woman" (#9 1972, he co-wrote), "Peaceful Easy Feeling" (#22 1973), "Already Gone" (#32 1974), "Lyin' Eyes" (#2, #8c 1975, he co-wrote), "Best of My Love" (#1 1975), "One of These Nights" (#1 1975, he co-wrote), "New Kid in Town" (#1, #43c 1976), "Take it to the Limit" (#4 1976), "Life in the Fast Lane" (#11 1977), "Hotel California" (#1 1977, he co-wrote), "Heartache Tonight" (#1 1979), "The Long Run" (#8 1980), "I Can't Tell You Why" (#8 1980), "Seven Bridges Road" (#21, #55c 1981), "Get Over it" (#31 1994), "The Girl From Yesterday" (#58c 1994)
• with the Souther Hillman Furay Band (1975-76), "Prisoner in Disguise" (1975), "Trouble in Paradise" (1975), "For Someone I Love" (1975)
• duet with Stevie Nicks, * "Leather and Lace" (#6 1981)
• duet with Patty Smyth, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" (#2 1992)
• duet with Kenny Rogers, "Calling Me" (#53c 2007)
• duets with Trisha Yearwood's "Walkaway Joe" (#2c 1993), "Inside Out" (#31c 2001)
• songwriter
• music producer
• environmentalist, political activist
• md. to model, Sharon Summerall (1995- )
• see Don Henley

• b. 1974/75 in LaFollette, TN
• country/bluegrass/gospel singer
• instruments: mandolin, guitar
• "On My Way to You" (#54c 1999, she co-wrote), "I've Forgotten How You Feel" (#46c 2000, she co-wrote), "How Can I Forget?" (2000), "Barefoot in the Grass" (#64c 2000), "Two Badly Broken Hearts" (2000, she co-wrote), "What Do You See" (#59c 2002, she wrote), "No Regrets Yet" (#36c 2004, she co-wrote)
• with The Isaacs, "Carry Me" (1994), "Peace Like a River" (1994), "The Master's Bouquet" (1996), "The Lowest Valley" (1996), "In God's Hand" (1997), "Bridges That You've Burned" (1997), "Promise from on High" (1998), "Increase My Faith" (1998), "Wayfaring Stranger" (1999), "He Never Failed Me" (1999), "Closer to My Journey" (2005), "The Beautiful River of Life" (2005), "Sea of Galilee" (2005)
• duets with Dolly Parton, "Healing Hands" (2000, she co-wrote), "The Angels Rejoiced" (2003)
• backup singer with Vince Gill, and others
• songwriter
• daughter of Joe Isaacs; md. to Tim Surrett

• b. 19?? in UT
• country singer
• instruments: fiddle, mandolin, guitar
• founding member and lead singer of Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand, "Small House, Big Yard" (1996), "Two-Year Old Attitude" (1996), "Simplify" (1999), "Freeway" (1999), "Dream Big" (#27c 2005, he wrote), "Same Sun" (2005), "Crash and Burn" (2005), "Banjo Boy" (2006), "Be the One" (2008), "Corn Dogs" (2008, he wrote), "If You Could Live a Different Life" (2008, he wrote)
• songwriter

• b. 1940 in Batesville, MS – d. 15 Aug 1971 (auto accident)
• country/rockabilly singer
• instrument: guitar
• "You're the One That Done it" (1958), "Saturday Date" (1958), "Guilty of Love" (1960), "The Quiet Look" (1962), "Eighth Wonder of the World" (1964), "You're Tearin' Down My Mind" (1969)
• founding member and lead of Thomas Wayne and the Delons, "Gonna Be Waitin'" (1959), "Tragedy" (#5 1959, One-Hit Wonder)
• songwriter
• brother of Luther Perkins
• some believe his 'accident' was actually a suicide

• b. 1924 in Detroit, MI (grew up in Hollywood, CA)
• pop/country singer
• "That Old Black Magic" (#10 1943), "All Through the Day" (1945), "Come Rain or Come Shine" (#17 1946), "Oh, But I Do" (#7 1946), "Guilty" (#4 1947), "Old Devil Moon" (#11 1947), "You Do" (#5 1947), "A Tree in the Meadow" (#1 1948), "If I Can Love You in the Morning" (1951), "The Sun is Always Shining Somewhere" (1952), "Waltz to the Blues" (1953), "C.O.D." (1953), "The Money Tree" (#20 1956), "That's Why I Was Born" (1957), "Speak for Yourself, John" (1957), "Pretty-Eyed Baby" (1958), "The Wheel of Hurt" (#26 1966)
• duets with Jimmy Wakely, "Slippin' Around" (#1, #1c 1949), "Wedding Bells" (#6c 1949), "I'll Never Slip Around Again" (#2c 1949), "Broken Down Merry-Go-Round" (#2c 1950), "Let's Go to Church (Next Sunday Morning)" (#2c 1950), "Six Times a Week and Twice on Sunday" (1950), "A Bushel and a Peck" (1953)
• md. to Jack Wrangler (1994- , he is 22 years younger than her)

• b. 1973 in Spirit Lake, IA
• country singer
• "I Won't Lie" (#58c 1998), "Baby, I Lied" (#40c 2001), "Untangle My Heart" (#58c 2002), "Corn Fed" (2006), "Small-Town Girl" (2006), "Good Ole Days" (2006)
• md. to Shaun Silva

• b. 1940 in Hopewell, AL (grew up in Marietta, GA) – d. 7 Oct 1997 in Kennesaw, GA (diabetes)
• country/pop singer
• instrument: guitar
• "As Long As the Wind Blows" (#30c 1966), "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (#9c 1967), "The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" (#22c 1968), "With Pen in Hand" (#3c 1968), "Woman Without Love" (#20c 1969), "Why You Been Gone So Long?" (#17c 1969), "Dakota the Dancing Bear" (#66c 1973), "Was Yesterday That Long Ago?" (1978)
• duet with Anita Carter, "The Coming of the Roads" (#50c 1969)
• songwriter
• served in the Army

• b. 1971 in Decatur, IL (grew up in Champaign, IL)
• bluegrass/country/folk singer
• instruments: fiddle, mandolin
• founding member and lead of Union Station (1987- ), "Baby, Now That I've Found You" (#49c 1995), "When You Say Nothing at All" (#53, #3c 1995, CMA single of the year 1995), "Forget about it" (#67c 1999), * "Stay" (1999), * "Maybe" (1999), * "The Lucky One" (#46c 2001), * "Down to the River" (2002), "Restless" (#36c 2004), "The Scarlet Tide" (2007), "I Give to You This Heart" (2007)
• duet with Shenandoah, "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" (#7c 1995)
• duet with Brad Paisley, "Whiskey Lullaby" (#41, #3c 2004)
• duets with Vince Gill, "High Lonesome Sound" (#12c 1996), "The Reason Why" (#28c 2006)
• duet with John Waite, "Missing You" (#34c 2007)
• backup on John Michael Montgomery's "The Little Girl" (#35, #1c 2000); Kenny Rogers' "Buy Me a Rose" (#40, #1c 2000)
• md. to guitarist, Pat Bergeson (1997-2001)
• see Allison Krauss and Union Station

• b. 1977 in Montreal, Canada
• country musician, instruments: fiddle, mandolin, guitar
• with Emerson Drive (Jun2003- ), "Fishin' in the Dark" (2004), "Last One Standing" (#89, #21c 2004), "November" (#41c 2004), "A Good Man" (#19c 2006), "Moments" (#56, #1c 2007), "You Still Own Me" (#35c 2007)
• see Emerson Drive

• b. 1925 in Oilton, OK - d. 29 Mar 1996 in Collinsville, OK
• western swing/country musician, instrument: sax
• with The Texas Playboys (1958-62, and reunions), "Heart to Heart Talk" (#5c 1960)
• with Johnnie Lee Wills' band (1955-57, 1962), "Blub Twist" (1962), "Slush" (1962)
• with The Southernairs (1951-54)
• school superintendent
• see The Texas Playboys

• b. 1948 in Seattle, WA
• country singer
• "Rhythm of the Rain" (#34c 1972), "Love Lives Again" (1973), "Thanks for Lovin' Me" (#59c 1973), "Repeat After Me" (1973), "I'm Gonna Keep Searching" (#81c 1973), "Your Love's Been a Long Time Comin'" (1973), "You Got Everything That You Want" (1974), "North of Happiness" (1974), "Airports and Planes" (1974), "I Will Always Be Here" (1974)

• b. 1943 in Oak Grove, LA
• country/rock singer
• instruments: guitar, harmonica
• "Ten More Miles to Louisiana" (1967), "Aspen, Colorado" (1968), "Polk Salad Annie" (#8 1969, One-Hit Wonder, he wrote), "My Friend" (1970), "High Sheriff" (1970), "I Thought I Knew You Well" (1970), "A Night in the Life of a Swamp Fox" (1971), "As the Crow Flies" (1972), "Homemade Ice Cream" (1973), "Soulful Eyes" (1976), "Lady in My Life" (#55c 1983, he wrote), "We Belong Together" (#85c 1984, he wrote), "Undercover Agent for the Blues" (1991), "Closer to the Truth" (1991), "Let the Healing Begin" (1995), "All Those Tomorrows" (2004)
• session musician
• songwriter, wrote Brook Benton's "Rainy Night in Georgia" (#4 1970, also #13c 1974 for Hank Williams, Jr.)
• see Tony Joe White

• b. 1936 in Hardscratch, IA (grew up in NE) – d. 11/12 Jan 2004 (pneumonia)
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Ribbons of Steel" (1971), "Growing Old with Grace" (1972), "Allegheny Lady" (#97c 1977, he co-wrote), "Cowboys Are Common as Sin" (#68c 1980, he wrote), "Don't Ever Leave Me Again" (#84c 1981, he wrote)
• founding member of The Golden Rockets
• songwriter, wrote John Anderson's "I've Got it Made" (#3c 1994); co-wrote Vern Gosdin's "Chiseled in Stone" (#6c 1988), "If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do it Right)" (#5c 1983), "Way Down Deep" (#5c 1983); Vince Gill's "Look at Us" (#4c 1991); George Jones' "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" (#3c 1985); Conway Twitty's "Don't Take it Away" (#1c 1979), "Red-Neckin' Love-Makin' Nights" (#1c 1981); Keith Whitley's "Ten Feet Away" (#9c 1986); Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty's "I Can't Love You Enough" (#2c 1977); The Kendalls' "Thank God for the Radio" (#1c 1984); Eddy Raven's "Joe Knows How to Live" (#1c 1988); Randy Travis' "I Won't Need You Anymore (Forever and Always)" (#1c 1987), "If I Didn't Have You" (#1c 1972); Pam Tillis' "Don't Tell Me What to Do"(#5c 1991)
• truck driver

• b. 1949 in Evergreen Park, IL
• country/rock singer
• instrument: guitar
• with Swampwater (1969-73, and reunions), "Desperation's Back Again" (1970), "Take a City Bride" (#72c 1971), "It's Your Game, Mary Jane" (1971), "She's Only Dancing" (1987, he co-wrote), "Middle of Midnight" (1987, he co-wrote), "There'll Be No Getting Over You" (1987, he co-wrote), "We Knew the Bride" (1987, he co-wrote) (songs released in 1987 were recorded in 1979)
• Swampwater sang backup for Linda Ronstadt and Arlo Guthrie
• with Rick Nelson's band (1978-79), "That Ain't the Way Love's Supposed to Be" (1979)
• with the Flying Burrito Brothers (1979-84, 1987-95, and reunions), "Another Shade of Grey" (1979, he co-wrote), "White Line Fever" (#95c 1980), "She's a Friend of a Friend" (#67c 1980, he co-wrote), "Does She Wish She Was Single Again?" (#20c 1981), "She Belongs to Everyone But Me" (#16c 1981, he co-wrote), "Damned if I'll Be Lonely Tonight" (1981, he co-wrote), "That's When You Know it's Over" (1981, he co-wrote), "If Something Should Come between Us (Let it Be Love)" (#27c 1982, he co-wrote), "Closer to You" (#40c 1982, he co-wrote), "I'm Drinking Canada Dry" (#39c 1982), "Blue and Broken-Hearted Me" (#48c 1982), "Our Roots are Country Music" (1982, he co-wrote), "How'd We Ever Get This Way?" (1982, he co-wrote), "Coast to Coast" (1982, he wrote), "Almost Saturday Night" (#49c 1984), "My Kind of a Lady" (#53 1984), "Eye of the Hurricane" (1994), "Heart Highway" (1994), "Jukebox Saturday Night" (1994)
• session musician with Johnny Tillotson, Kris Kristofferson, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, The Bellamy Brothers, Dolly Parton, Buck Owens, and others
• songwriter, wrote The Whites' "Forever You" (#14c 1985), co-wrote The Bellamy Brothers's "Cowboy Beat" (#23c 1992)
• music producer; arranger

• b. 1916 in Mechanicsville, NY - d. 17 Nov 1981 (heart attack)
• country/swing singer
• "You Redhead" (1949), "What Have You Got in Those Eyes?" (1949), "A Kiss to Build a Dream on" (1951), "Tattle Tale" (1952), "I'm a Sentimental Fool" (1954)
• founding member of The Sunshine Serenaders, "One Has My Name, the Other Has My Heart" (#8c 1949)
• with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (1935-43), "Green Eyes" (#1 1941, duet with Helen O'Connell)
• duet with Kitty Kallen, "Besame Mucho" (#1 1944)
• backed by The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, "Chasing Shadows" (#1 1935)
• served in the Army (1944-45)
• brother of Ray Eberle
• md. to Florine Callahan

• b. 1957 in Plant City, FL (grew up in Nashville, TN)
• country/rock/jazz singer
• instruments: rhythm guitar, piano
• "Goodbye Highway" (#71c 1984, she co-wrote), "Those Memories of You" (#55c 1986), "One of Those Things" (#6c 1991, she co-wrote), "Don't Tell Me What to Do" (#5c 1991), "Put Yourself in My Place" (#11c 1991, she co-wrote), "Maybe it Was Memphis" (#3c 1992), "Blue Rose is" (#21c 1992, she co-wrote), "Shake the Sugar Tree" (#3c 1992), "Let That Pony Run" (#4c 1993), "Spilled Perfume" (#5c 1994, she co-wrote), "When You Walk in the Room" (#2c 1994), "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" (#1c 1995, she co-wrote), "In Between Dances" (#3c 1995), "Deep Down" (#6c 1996), "All the Good Ones Are Gone" (#4c 1997), "Land of the Living" (#5c 1997), "Please" (#22c 2001)
• songwriter
• actress
• daughter of singer, Mel Tillis; md. to songwriter, Bob DiPiero (1991- )

• b. 1922 in Troy, TN - d. 26 Jul 2007 in Fort Worth, TX
• country singer
• "Don't Burn the Bridge Behind You" (1957), "Mama Doll" (1960), "I Don't Care Who Knows" (1960), "Anywhere There's People" (#13c 1962), "Lucky Heart" (1962), "Rock of Gibraltar" (1963), "Everything's OK on the LBJ" (#40c 1964, he wrote), "Mending Fences" (2005), "Neon Nights" (2005), "The McNairy County Sheriff" (2005)
• songwriter, wrote Gene Watson's "Farewell Party" (#5c 1978); Bobby Helms' "Fraulein" (#36, #1c 1957); Hank Locklin's "Geisha Girl" (#66, #4c 1957); Bobby Bare's "Shame on Me" (#23, #18c 1962)
• served in the Army during WWII

• b. 1943 in Nashville, TN
• country singer
• instruments: guitar, drums
• "Baby Just Said Goodbye" (1965), "I Wish it Were Me" (1966), "Turn That Frown Upside Down" (1966), "Luckiest Guy in the World" (1967), "As Long As You Live" (1967), "Looks Like Baby's Gone" (1969), "The Guy Who Played Bass (So Well in Harlan Martin's Band)" (1969), "Through the Windows of Your Mind" (1969), "Back Down to Atlanta" (1970), "Running" (1971), "Good Morning, Country Rain" (1975)
• songwriter
• artist
• environmentalist
• song of singer, Roy Acuff

• b. 1894 in Swampscott, MA - d. 21 Sep 1974 in Oxnard, CA (emphysema)
• country singer
• "Back to the Farm" (1960), "The Thievin' Stranger" (1960), "Old Rivers" (#5, #3c 1962), "Mama Sang Me a Song" (#38 1962), "Tribute to a Dog" (1962), "The Old Kelly Place" (1962)
• duet with Billy Vaughn, "Dutchman's Gold" (#30 1960)
• actor
• served in WWI
• md. to Ruth Wells (1920-74, his death)
• see Walter Brennan on Wikipedia

• b. 1965 in Maceo, KY
• country/honky-tonk singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Every Now and Then" (1991), "Wildest Dreams" (1992), "It Must Be Rain" (#74c 1993, he wrote), "Let's Begin Again" (1993), "Wild Kentucky Skies" (1993), "You Must Be Mistakin' Me" (1994), "Laurie on My Mind" (1996), "Too Lonely Too Long" (1996), "You Can't Wrap Your Arms Around a Memory" (1996)
• songwriter

• b. 1961 in Warner Robins, GA
• country/pop singer
• "While You Were Out" (1998), "I Know What Happens Next" (1998), "Something Beautiful" (2005), "Moondance" (2005)
• duet with Collin Raye, "Tired of Loving This Way" (#50c 2000)
• actress
• she was Miss Georgia 1982
• md. to author, David Steen (1993- )

• b. 1935 in Bethel, TN - d. 20 Mary 1972 (lung cancer)
• country/gospel singer
• founding member of The Smitty Gatlin Trio
• with The Oak Ridge Quartet (1957-66), "The Mockin' Bird" (1959), "The House of the Lord" (1959)
• The Oak Ridge Quartet later became The Oak Ridge Boys
• minister

• b. 1975 in Anderson, SC
• western swing singer
• instruments: fiddle, guitar, bass, mandolin
• "End of the Line" (2005), "You're Making a Memory Out of Me" (2005)
• with Asleep at the Wheel (1994, 1996- ), "The End of the Line" (1999), "One Six-Pack to Go" (2003), "Amarillo by Morning" (2003), "Texas, Me and You" (2005)
• session fiddler with Darrell McCall, Clay Walker, and others
• see Asleep at the Wheel

• b. 1942 in McAlester, OK (grew up in Fort Worth, TX) - d. 14 Sep 2003 in Bedford, TX (cancer)
• country/rock/blues/soul musician, instrument: lead guitar
• with Delbert McClinton's Rondells, "Far Horizons" (1965), "Don't Say That You Love Me" (1965)

• b. 1938 in Nashville, TN
• country/R&B/pop singer
• instrument: trumpet
• "Just a Little Bit More" (1962), "Betty Jo from Ohio" (1966), "Sunny" (#2 1966, he wrote), "A Satisfied Mind" (#39 1966), "My Pretty Sunshine" (1967), "Some Kind of Magic" (1967), "Woman in the Window" (1972), "That's All I Wanna Know" (2005)
• with Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain Boys (1952)
• songwriter

• b. 1972 in Albuquerque, NM
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• founding member of The Cactus Brothers (1992-96), "Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl" (1993, he co-wrote), "One More Night with You" (1993, he wrote), "This Love's Gonna Fly" (1995, he co-wrote), "Secret Language" (1995, he co-wrote), "A Woman's Touch" (1995, he co-wrote)
• founding member of Walk the West (1984-89), "Do You Wanna Dance?" (1986), "Precious Times" (1986), "Think it Over" (1986)
• songwriter
• son of songwriter, Dave Kirby

• b. 1954 in Lubbock, TX
• country/rock/Christian musician, instruments: guitar, harmonica
• "If I Could Find the Words" (2006, he wrote), "Muddy Road" (2006, he wrote), "I'd Rather Be Dancing" (2006, he co-wrote)
• founding member of The Maines Brothers Band (1976- ), "Dream Spinner" (1980), "Farm Road 40" (1980), "I Finally Got it Right" (1981), "On a Real Good Night" (1981), "Panhandle Dancer" (1982), "Flatland Farmer" (1982), "Easy to Love" (1982), "You Are a Miracle" (#85c 1984), "Everybody Needs Love on a Saturday Night" (#24c 1985), "Danger Zone" (#59c 1986), "River of Love" (1987), "Red Hot and Blue" (1987), "Dark Hearts" (1987), "Pink and Black Song" (1987), "You Can't Get the Hell Out of Texas" (1987), "Dry Land Farm" (1990), "Gonna Be a Cowboy" (1990), "Let the Rain Come Down" (1990)
• md. to Sharon Hibner (1980- )
• Lubbock County Commissioner (1992-2004)

• b. 1956 in Utica, NY
• country/rock singer
• instrument: lead guitar
• with The Amazing Rhythm Aces (1978- , replaced Barry Burton), "Ashes of Love" (#100c 1978), "Whispering in the Night" (1979), "I Musta Died and Gone to Texas" (#77c 1980), "Waitin' on Sundown" (1997), "Cold, Cold Rain" (1997), "I Feel Forever" (1997), "Out of the Storm" (1997)
• with Sawyer Brown (1991-2004, replaced Bobby Randall), "The Walk" (#2c 1991), "Some Girls Do" (#1c 1991), "Burning Bridges on a Rocky Road" (1991), "Café on the Corner" (#5c 1992), "All These Years" (#3c 1993), "The Dirt Road" (#3c 1992), "Thank God for You" (#1c 1993), "Drive Away" (1993), "The Boys and Me" (#4c 1994), "Hard to Say" (#5c 1994), "This Time" (#2c 1995), "I Don't Believe in Goodbye" (#4c 1995), "Treat Her Right" (#3c 1996), "This Night Won't Last Forever" (#6c 1997), "Drive Me Wild" (#44, #6c 1998), "Circle of Your Arms" (#45c 2002), "Can You Hear Me Now?" (#57c 2002)
• pilot
• see Sawyer Brown

• b. 1967 in Carlsbad, NM
• country singer
• "Lonesome Wins Again" (1992), "That Blue Again" (1992), "Rosalee" (#54c 1992), "A Poor Man's Roses" (#55c 1993, he co-wrote), "I Can Dream" (1995), "Honey, I Do" (61c 1995, he co-wrote), "Rain Just Falls" (1999), "Ashes of Old Love" (1999)
• songwriter

• b. 1957 in Galveston, TX
• country/novelty singer
• "I'm a Cowboy" (#60c 1998, he co-wrote), "Here's Your Sign (Christmas)" (#39c 1998, #46c 1999), "I'm a Cheap Drunk" (2002), "After Twenty Years of Marriage" (2002), "Getting Old Sucks" (2003), "Wives and NASCAR" (2007)
• duet with Travis Tritt, "Here's Your Sign (Get the Picture)" (#43, #29c 1997, he co-wrote)
• duet with John Michael Montgomery, "Warning Signs" (#56c 1997, he co-wrote)
• duet with Jeff Foxworthy and Marty Stuart, "The Blue Collar Dollar Song" (#63c 2000, he co-wrote)
• duet with Neal McCoy, Tracy Byrd and T. Graham Brown, "Now That's Awesome" (#59c 2000, he co-wrote)
• duet with Julie Reeves, "Shoulda Shut Up" (#71c 2000, he co-wrote)
• songwriter
• comedian; actor
• see Bill Engvall

• b. 1944 in Chickasaw County, MS
• country singer
• instrument: guitar, bass, piano, banjo, autoharp
• "Ode to Billy Joe" (#1, #17c 1967, #54 1976, she wrote), "Mississippi Delta" (1967), "Okolona River Bottom Band" (#54 1968), "Fancy" (#31, #26c 1970)
• duets with Glen Campbell, "Mornin' Glory" (#74 1968), "Less of Me" (#44c 1968), "Let it Be Me" (#36, #14c 1969), "Ace Insurance Man" (1969), "Seasons Come, Seasons Go" (1970), "All I Have to Do is Dream" (#27, #6c 1970), "Apartment 21" (1970)
• duet with Jody Reynolds, "Stranger in the Mirror" (1963)
• songwriter
• md. to Bill Harrah (1969), md. to Jim Stafford (1978-79)

• b. 1928 near Moultrie, GA - d. 2 May 2004 in GA (cancer)
• western swing/honky-tonk/rockabilly singer
• "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" (1952), "Rompin' and Stompin'" (1953), "If You Tell Me One More Lie" (1953), "Caffeine and Nicotine" (1954), "I'd Do it for You" (1954), "Our Secret Rendezvous" (1955), "Draggin'" (1956), "Mobile, Alabama" (1956), "Sittin' on Top of the World" (1957), "For the Last Time" (1962)
• session musician with Chet Atkins, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Hank Garland, and others
• songwriter
• served in the Army

• b. 1918/20 in Knoxville, TN – d. 7 Aug 1971 (heart attack)
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Roll Along, Kentucky Moon" (1949)
• with The String Dusters
• with Homer and Jethro (1932-71), "The Girl in Police Gazette" (1949), "Tennessee Border No. 2" (#14c 1949), "Billboard Song" (1952), "Child Psychology" (1952), "How Much is That Hound Dog in the Winder?" (#2c 1953), * "You-ewe-u" (1953), * "Hernando's Hideaway" (#14c 1954), "The Ballad of Davy Crew-Cut" (1955), "The Nutty Lady of Shady Lane" (1955), "Two-Tone Shoes" (1956), "Lullaby of Bird Dog" (1958), "The Battle of Kookamonga" (#14, #26c 1959, One-Hit Wonder), "Middle-Aged Teenager" (1959), "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (#49c 1964), "Charlie Cheated on His Income Tax" (1965), "Hillbilly Hippie" (1968), "Daddy Played First Base" (1970), "We Didn't Make it Through the Night" (1971)
• Homer and Jethro with June Carter, "Baby, it's Cold Outside" (#9c 1949), "The Wedding of Hillbilly Lilli Marlene" (1949), "The Huckle Buck" (1949), "She Loves to Cry" (1951), "Knock-Kneed Suzie" (1951)
• session musician with Chet Atkins, and others
• comedian
• served in the military during WWII

• b. 1962/63 in Riverside, CA
• country/honky-tonk singer
• with her band The Cadillac Cowboys, "Rum and Rodeo" (1992, she wrote), "Just Like Old Times" (1992, she co-wrote), "One Good Reason Why" (1992, she co-wrote), "Cadillac Cowboy" (1995, she wrote), "If the Truth Hurts" (1996, she wrote), "Love Me a Little Bit Longer" (#75c 1998, she wrote), "You've Taken Me Places I Wish I'd Never Been" (1998, she wrote), * "You're Gonna Love Me One Day" (1998, she wrote), * "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" (1998), "Sweet Talk and Good Lies" (2002, she wrote), "Big Cars" (2002, she wrote)
• duet with Merle Haggard, "No One is Gonna Love You Better" (1998, she wrote)
• duet with Dwight Yoakam, "Little Chapel" (2002, she wrote)
• songwriter

• b. 19??
• country/rock musician, instrument: drums
• founding member of Heartland, "I Loved Her First" (#34, #1c 2006), "Boys Like Us" (2006), "Freebird in a Firebird" (2006), "Built to Last" (#58c 2007), "Once a Woman Gets a Hold of Your Heart" (#52c 2007)

• b. 1954 in Houston, TX
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Sometimes I Talk in My Sleep" (#9c 1975), "Heart, Don't Fail Me Now" (#33c 1976), "I Guess You Never Loved Me Anyway" (#72c 1976), "Ring, Telephone, Ring" (#95c 1978, he co-wrote), "Hurt as Big as Texas" (1978)
• session musician
• songwriter

• b. 1938 in Meridian, MS
• country/rock musician, instrument: steel guitar
• founding member of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (1968-75), Sylvia's Mother" (#1 1972), "The Cover of Rolling Stone" (#6 1972), "Four Years Older Than Me" (1972), "Carry Me, Carrie" (1973)
• with The Flares (1959- , 2004- ), "Loving You" (1960), "Foot Stomping" (#25 1961, One-Hit Wonder), "Truck and Trailer" (1962), "Make it Be Me" (1962), "Write a Song About Me" (1964), "Sock Hop" (1964), "Hummin' in the Wind" (2005), "Goodbye's Too Good for You" (2005)
• The Flares recording as The Peppers, "A Place in My Heart" (1961), "A Little Piece of Paper" (1963), "It Wouldn't Be the Same" (1963)
• with The Chocolate Papers
• session musician with Lonnie Mack, Big Joe Williams, and others
• songwriter

• b. 1952 in CA
• western swing musician, instruments: keyboards, piano, organ
• founding member of Asleep at the Wheel (1971-78), "I'm the Fool (Who Told You to Go)" (1973), "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" (#69c 1975), "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read" (#10c 1975), "Bump Bounce Boogie" (#31c 1976), "Nothin' Takes the Place of You" (#35c 1976), "Route 66" (#48c 1976), "Miles and Miles of Texas" (#38c 1977), "One O'Clock Jump" (1978)
• session pianist on George Strait's "Ace in the Hole" (#1c 1989); and with Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, and others
• see Asleep at the Wheel
• see Floyd Domino

• b. 1953 in Knoxville, TN
• country/rock singer
• instruments: drums, percussions, guitar
• founding member and drummer with the Desert Rose Band (1985-90), "Once More" (1987), "Ashes of Love" (#26c 1987), "He's Back and I'm Blue" (#1c 1987), "Love Reunited" (#6c 1987), "One Step Forward" (#2c 1987), "I Still Believe in You" (#1c 1988), "Summer Wind" (#2c 1988), "She Don't Love Nobody" (#3c 1989), "Hello, Trouble" (#11c 1989), "Start All Over Again" (#6c 1990), "In Another Lifetime" (#13c 1990), "Story of Love" (#10c 1990)
• with Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band (1975-78)
• session musician with Emmylou Harris, Rose Maddox, Freddy Fender, Steve Wariner, and others

• b. 1946 in Aitkin, MN (grew up in VA)
• country/folk/bluegrass singer
• instruments: guitar, harmonica, piano, bass, drums
• "Sunshine" (#4 1971, One-Hit Wonder, he wrote), "Dusty Morning" (1971, he wrote), "Shanty" (1971, he wrote), "Stop and Start it All Over Again" (1972), "Ballad of Upsy Daisy" (1972), "Thirty Miles to Go" (1973), "Places I've Been" (1973), "Favorite Song" (1976, he wrote), "Never Together (But Sometimes Close)" (1977), "Girl from the Canyon" (1977, he wrote), "Back to Where I Don't Belong" (1985), "Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky" (1985), "Seven Daffodils" (1985), "We Need to Be Locked Away" (#64c 1988), "It's a Natural Thing" (#59c 1989), "Our First Kiss" (1994, he wrote), "Everything Takes Time" (1994, he wrote), "Dime-a-Dance Romance" (1997), "Man in the Moon" (1997, he wrote), "Do You Remember Me?" (1997, he wrote), "Little Hands" (2000, he wrote), "Until Someone Says Goodbye" (2002, he wrote), "Too Many Yesterdays" (2002, he wrote)
• sessionist with Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffet, and others
• songwriter
• see Jonathan Edwards

• b. 1938 in Dubois, PA
• western swing musician, instrument: fiddle
• with The Texas Playboys (1967)
• with Area Code 615 (1969- ), "Why Ask Why?" (1969), "Southern Comfort" (1969), "Stone Fox Chase" (1970)
• with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys (1961, 1964-65, 1977, 1987-88), "Shenandoah Breakdown" (1964), "Scotland" (#27c 1965), "I Live in the Past" (1965), "My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darling" (1977)
• with J.D. Crowe and the New South (1999), "Come on Down to My World" (1999), "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" (1999), "You Didn't Say Goodbye" (1999)
• session fiddle player
• see The Blue Grass Boys
• see The Texas Playboys

• b. 1951 in Troy, NY (grew up in Columbia, SC)
• country/rock/R&B singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Fade to Blue" (#69c 1983, he co-wrote), "My Angel's Got the Devil in Her Eyes" (#59c 1983), "In Real Life" (#41c 1984)
• songwriter
• real estate agent
• md. to Cathy Gaughn

• b. 1966 in Medicine Lodge, KS (grew up on a dairy farm near Sharon, KS)
• country singer
• "The Time Has Come" (#23c 1992), * "Independence Day" (#12c 1993), "My Baby Loves Me" (#2c 1993), "Life Number Nine" (#6c 1994), "All the Things We've Never Done" (1995), "Safe in the Arms of Love" (#4c 1996), "Phones Are Ringing All Over Town" (#28c 1996), * "Born to Give My Love to You" (1995), "Wild Angels" (#1c 1996), "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road" (#26c 1997), "A Broken Wing" (#50, #1c 1997), "Happy Girl" (#2c 1998), "Wrong Again" (#36, #1c 1999), "Whatever You Say" (#37, #2c 1999), "I Love You" (#24, #1c 1999), "Love's the Only House" (#42, #3c 1999), "There You Are" (#60, #10c 2000), * "When God-fearing Women Get the Blues" (#64, #8c 2001), "Blessed" (#31, #1c 2002), * "Concrete Angel" (#47, #5c 2002, she co-wrote), "Where Would You Be?" (#45, #3c 2002), "This One's for the Girls" (#39, #3c 2003), "In My Daughter's Eyes" (#39, #4c 2003), "How Far?" (#68, #12c 2004), "Anyway" (#32, #5c 2006), "How I Feel" (#20c 2007)
• duet with Clint Black, "Still Holding on" (#11c 1997)
• duet with Jim Brickman, "Valentine" (#50, #9c 1998)
• duet with Jimmy Buffett, "Trip Around the Sun" (#20c 2004)
• md. to John McBride (1988- , they got married in Wichita, KS)
• she is left-handed
• see Martina McBride

• b. 1973 in Fort Lewis, WA
• country singer
• instrument: rhythm guitar
• "The Ball" (#45c 2002), "Days of Our Lives" (#33c 2004), "Sunday Morning and Saturday Night" (#58c 2004), "She Knows" (2004), "Just Got Started Lovin' You" (#50, #5c 2007), "Drink and Dial" (2008), "Sunset Man" (2008)
• songwriter
• served in the Navy

• b. 1968 in Medicine Lodge, KS (grew up on a dairy farm outside Sharon, KS)
• country musician, instrument: guitar
• guitarist with Martina McBride's band (1997, 2003- ), "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road" (#26c 1997), "A Broken Wing" (#50, #1c 1997), "This One's for the Girls" (#39, #3c 2003), "In My Daughter's Eyes" (#39, #4c 2003), "How Far?" (#68, #12c 2004), "Anyway" (#32, #5c 2006), "How I Feel" (#20c 2007)
• younger brother of Martina McBride
• not sure if he was born on his sister's birthday of someone mixed the days

• b. 1944 in Sioux Falls, SD (grew up in CA)
• country/folk/rock/bluegrass singer
• instrument: guitar, fiddle, mandolin
• "Albuquerque Rainbow" (1973, he wrote), "That's What it's Like to Be Alone" (1973, he wrote), "You Can't Outplay the Blues" (1974, he wrote), "A Southern California Drive" (1982)
• with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1968-69)
• with Linda Ronstadt's backup band, The Corvettes, "Back Home Girl" (1969), "Beware of Time" (1969)
• founding member of Kaleidoscope, "Why Try?" (1967), "I Found Out" (1967)
• duets with Robb Strandlund, "Wages of Sin" (2006), "Thou Shalt Not Steal" (2006), "Chains" (2006)
• songwriter
• photographer
• see The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

• b. 1958 in Jacksonville, TX
• country/honky-tonk singer
• instrument: guitar
• "If I Built You a Fire" (#48c 1991), "Now I Pray for Rain" (#26c 1992), * "No Doubt about it" (#75, #1c 1994), "The City Put the Country Back in Me" (#5c 1994), "Wink" (#91, #1c 1994), "For a Change" (#3c 1995), "They're Playin' Our Song" (#3c 1995), "You Gotta Love That" (#3c 1996), "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" (#4c 1996), "If You Can't Be Good (Be Good at it)" (#22c 1997), "The Shake" (#5c 1997), "Love Happens Like That" (#29c 1998), "Forever Works for Me" (#38c 2000), "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles on" (#75, #10c 2005)
• he is part Filipino and part Irish
• md. to Melinda Williams (1980- )
• see Neal McCoy

• b. 1963 (maybe Jun 30) in Ada, OK
• country singer
• instrument: acoustic guitar
• "High Flight" (2001), "We Remember" (2001), "Crystal Ocean" (2001)
• founding member, singer and rhythm guitarist with Little Texas (1988-97, 2004- ), "Some Guys Have All the Love" (#8c 1991), "What Were You Thinkin'?" (#17c 1992), "You and Forever and Me" (#5c 1992), "I'd Rather Miss You" (#16c 1993), "Stop on a Dime" (#14c 1993), * "God Blessed Texas" (#55, #4c 1993), "What Might Have Been" (#74, #2c 1993), "My Love" (#83, #1c 1993), "Cut-Off Jeans" (1993), "Kick a Little" (#5c 1994), "Amy's Back in Austin" (#4c 1995), "Life Goes on" (#5 1995), "You Gotta Wanna Win" (1996), "Country Crazy" (#44c 1996), "Bad for Us" (#45c 1997), "Kiss the Girl" (#52c 1997)
• aerobatic pilot
• md. to DeLisa (1992- )
• see Little Texas

• b. 1963 in Louisville, KY
• country singer (bass)
• instruments: mandolin, guitar
• "Mandolin Orchard" (2004, he wrote), "Old Paths" (2004, he wrote)
• founding member of New Tradition (1982-2000), "The Way, the Truth, the Light" (1991), "No Part of Nothin'" (1992), "Heaven's Highway" (1997), "Daddy on His Knees" (1997), "I'll Take Your Love Anytime" (1997), "Dreams of the Past" (1997)
• with The Grascals (2004- )
• The Grascals and Dolly Parton, "Viva Las Vegas" (#3c 2004)
• session musician
• songwriter

• b. 1937 in Sparkman, AR
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• with The Browns (1955-66), "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" (#7c 1955), "Draggin' Main Street" (1956), "I Take the Chance" (#2c 1956), "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing" (#4c 1957), "The Three Bells (The Jimmy Brown Story)" (#1c, #1 1959), "Scarlet Ribbons (for Her Hair)" (#13, #7c 1959), "The Old Lamplighter" (#5, #20c 1960), "Margo (the Ninth of May)" (1960), "Alpha and Omega" (1961), "Dear Teresa" (1963), "Then I'll Stop Loving You" (#12c 1964), "Oh No, Not My Baby" (#24 1965), "Meadowgreen" (1965), "I'd Just Be Fool Enough" (#16c 1966), "Coming Back to You" (#19c 1966)
• songwriter
• md. to Gene Ring

• b. 1963 in Ocala, FL
• country singer
• instrument: guitar
• "Ordinary Life" (#39, #3c 1998), "Lightning Does the Work" (#86, #19c 1999, he co-wrote), "Yes" (#22, #1c 2000), "The Visit" (#21c 2000)
• duet with Hank Williams, Jr. and George Jones, "A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K version)" (#75, #30c 1999)
• songwriter
• pro wrestler

• b. 1952 in Peoria, IL
• country musician, instruments: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
• with George Stait's band (1992- ), "I Cross My Heart" (#1c 1992), "Heartland" (#1c 1993), "Easy Come, Easy Go" (#71, #1c 1993), "I'd Like to Have That One Back" (#3c 1994), "The Big One" (#1c 1994), "You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody" (#1c 1994), "Adalida" (#3c 1995), "Check Yes or No" (#1c 1995, CMA single of the year 1996), "Blue Clear Sky" (#1c 1996), "Carried Away" (#1c 1996), "I Can Still Make Cheyenne" (#4c 1996), "One Night at a Time" (#59, #1c 1997), "Carrying Your Love with Me" (#1c 1997), "Today My World Slipped away" (#3c 1997), "Round about Way" (#1c 1998), "I Just Want to Dance with You" (#61, #1c 1998), "True" (#2c 1998), "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This" (#44, #4c 1998), "Write This Down" (#27, #1c 1999), "What Do You Say to That?" (#45, #4c 1999), "Meanwhile" (#38, #4c 1999), "The Best Day" (#31, #1c 2000), "Go on" (#40, #2c 2000) "Run" (#34, #2c 2001), "If You Can Do Anything Else" (#51, #5c 2001), "She'll Leave You with a Smile" (#23, #1c 2002), "Living and Living Well" (#27, #1c 2002), "Cowboys Like Us" (#38, #2c 2003), "I Hate Everything" (#35, #1c 2004), "You'll Be There" (#27, #1c 2005), "She Let Herself Go" (#54, #1c 2005), "Give it Away" (#58, #1c 2006), "It Just Comes Natural" (#58, #1c 2007), "Wrapped" (#76, #2c 2007), and others
• session musician with Dave Loggins, B.J. Thomas, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Eddie Rabbitt, George Strait, Randy Travis, Michael Martin Murphy, Clay Walker, and others
• music producer

• b. 1983 in Fort Worth, TX
• country singer
• founding member of 3 of Hearts, "6, 8, 12" (2001), "Arizona Rain" (#59c 2001), "Love is Enough" (#43c 2001), "Sugar and Daisies" (2001), "The Hard Way" (2001), "The Christmas Shoes" (#39c 2002)
• actress