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Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings 1947. Here is a year-end list compiled from The Billboard's Most-Played Folk Records weekly chart of 1947. Records that enter the chart in December of the previous year, or remain on the chart after December of the current year, receive points for their full chart runs.
Musician of the Year – Jerry Douglas. Horizon Award – Rascal Flatts. Music Video of the Year – " I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song) ," Brad Paisley (Director: Peter Zavadil) Vocal Event of the Year – "Mendocino County Line", Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack. Musician of the Year – Jerry Douglas.
July 13 – Kayton Roberts, 83, steel guitar player who has performed with Dolly Parton, Hank Snow, Marty Stuart and Alison Krauss among others (stroke). July 21 – Geoff Mack, 94, Australian singer-songwriter best known for writing "I've Been Everywhere", famously covered by Hank Snow and Johnny Cash among others.
Events. January 7 – Rachel Reinert announces that she is leaving the band Gloriana.; January 26 – Thomas Rhett's "Die a Happy Man" spends a sixth week at No. 1 on Country Airplay, becoming the first artist to spend six or more weeks atop that chart since Taylor Swift did so with "Our Song" in late 2007.
Events. July — The Dean Martin Show becomes known as Dean Martin Presents Music Country for the longtime variety show's summer broadcasts. Country music becomes a staple of Martin's show for the 1973–1974 season — its last on the air, as it turns out. July 4 — Willie Nelson hosts his first Fourth of July picnic.
Life and career 1965–1984: Early life and career beginnings. Björk was born on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík. She was raised by her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018), an activist who protested against the development of Iceland's Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, having divorced from Björk's father, Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader ...
The 56th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on April 18, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee, and broadcast from various locations around Nashville. The evening was co-hosted by Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton. [1] The ceremony involved no ticketed audience due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but featured a limited number of health care workers.
