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Sep 17, 1923
Hank Williams is born in Mount Olive, Alabama. He becomes one of country music's most influential singer/songwriters, penning "I Saw The Light" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" among his classics before dying tragically at age 29. Williams is one of three inaugural inductees in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961
Sep 17, 2005
King Street and 8th Street in Bristol, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia, are renamed Carter Family Way
Sep 17, 2015
Natalie Maines is inducted in the West Texas Walk of Fame in Lubbock. She sings "Wide Open Spaces" at the ceremony
Sep 17, 2000
Willie Nelson presents Farm Aid XV in Bristow, Virginia, with a lineup that includes Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Alan Jackson and Sawyer Brown. Tipper Gore, wife of vice president Al Gore, plays congas with Nelson on "Whiskey River"
Sep 17, 1985
A front page story in The New York Times proclaims that country music is "dead." The piece writes off Alabama and Hank Williams Jr. as "not really country"