Country Music History

On Sept. 28, 2010, the Grand Ole Opry re-opened after being forced to close for five months due to damage from the 2010 Nashville flood.

On June 10, 2005, Underwood made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry, shortly after she won Season 4 of 'American Idol'.

What a freakin' badass.

"I remember exactly where I was, exactly who I was with ..."

On April 6, 2007, Bryan made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry.

On March 2. 1996, McBride earned her first No. 1 hit, with "Wild Angels," the title track of her third studio album.

Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr. both had their first recording session on this day in country music history. It was a little different, as Hank Williams had his back in 1946 and Hank Williams Jr. had his back in 1963 in Nashville, when he was only 14 years old...

We are turning the clock back to 1951. Johnny Rodriguez is born in Sabinal, Texas today in 1951, and he becomes country's first mainstream star of Hispanic descent, emerging out of Tom T. Hall's band in 1972. He records numerous songs in Spanglish, with a line of hits that stretches from 1972-1983...

Just some good ol' boys. That is what always sticks with me when I hear the name Waylon Jennings, and he earned a gold single for the RIAA today in 1980 for the song "Theme form The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys). The song hit number one on Billboards Hot Country Singles in 1980...

Today, we are taking a deeper look at the life of Roy Acuff. Acuff, back in 1991, was the first country artist recognized in the Kennedy Center Honors, attended by president George Bush. Among the participants in the Washington, D.C., ceremony, shot for a CBS-TV special: Chet Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Steve Wariner and Bill Monroe...