Country Music History May 11

Half the week is over - it's all a slide into the weekend from here!

Mark Herndon was born May 11, 1955 in Springfield, Massachusetts.  Mark is the drummer for Alabama.

Also born May 11 in 1968, Heartland member Keith West in Huntsville, Alabama.

1996  Steve Wariner joined the Grand Ole Opry.

In 2013, Willie Nelson, Carole King and Annie Lennox received honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music in Boston.