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  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • May 21, 2013 CDT

  • A new way to experience country music history and the people who made it.
    Look at the genre in dozens of ways that were never before possible.

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  • May 21, 1998 Garth Brooks' "No Fences" becomes the first country album certified for shipments of 14 million copies
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  • May 21, 2003 Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts and Alan Jackson each win twice in the 38th annual Academy of Country Music awards, aired on CBS from Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay. Chesney takes Top Male Vocalist and Single Record of the Year, for "The Good Stuff"
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  • May 21, 2008 Carrie Underwood performs "Last Name" during the season finale of FOX's "American Idol," where David Cook is crowned champion. Others in the episode include Donna Summer, Bryan Adams, Graham Nash and ZZ Top
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  • This Date In Country Music
  • May 21, 2009 The soundtrack to "Hannah Montana: The Movie" goes gold and platinum. In addition to star Miley Cyrus, it also features music by Taylor Swift and Billy Ray Cyrus, plus an acoustic version of "Bless The Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts
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  • May 21, 1985 Songwriter Craig Wiseman arrives in Nashville from Mississippi, sleeping in a van for his first week. He ultimately pens such hits as Kenny Chesney's "The Good Stuff," Brooks & Dunn's "Believe" and Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying"
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  • RolandNote.com is the ultimate country music resource. Compiled by veteran music journalist Tom Roland over a dozen years, the site chronicles more than 50,000 events and 9,000 country songs by over 8,800 country stars, songwriters, musicians and producers.

  • Music pros, radio personalities and fans already depend on RolandNote.com every day to get the story on the people, places and music that define one of music's most important genres.

  • From Johnny Cash to John Rich, from Gene Autry to George Strait, from Bob Wills to Brooks & Dunn, from Texas to Tennessee, from "Your Cheatin' Heart" to "You're Gonna Miss This," it's all here in the Ultimate Country Music Database.