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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Roy Acuff
Country Musician
15-Sep-1903 23-Nov-1992 Country music pioneer
Trace Adkins
Country Musician
13-Jan-1962   Ladies Love Country Boys
Jason Aldean
Country Musician
28-Feb-1977   Big Green Tractor
Gary Allan
Country Musician
5-Dec-1967   Smoke Rings in the Dark
Deborah Allen
Country Musician
30-Sep-1953   Baby I Lied
Bill Anderson
Country Musician
1-Nov-1937   Po' Folks
John Anderson
Country Musician
13-Dec-1954   Country music traditionalist
Eddy Arnold
Country Musician
15-May-1918 8-May-2008 The Tennessee Plowboy
Chet Atkins
Guitarist
20-Jun-1924 30-Jun-2001 Prominent country picker
Gene Autry
Country Musician
29-Sep-1907 2-Oct-1998 Singing cowboy
Hoyt Axton
Country Musician
25-Mar-1938 26-Oct-1999 Folk singer, songwriter, composer
Razzy Bailey
Country Musician
14-Feb-1939   She Left Love All Over Me
Clint Black
Country Musician
4-Feb-1962   Mixes country with rock/pop
Suzy Bogguss
Country Musician
30-Dec-1956   Drive South
Johnny Bond
Country Musician
1-Jun-1915 12-Jun-1978 Hot Rod Lincoln
Garth Brooks
Country Musician
7-Feb-1962   Ropin' the Wind
Kix Brooks
Country Musician
12-May-1955   Brooks & Dunn
Luke Bryan
Country Musician
17-Jul-1976   Tailgates & Tanlines
Carl Butler
Country Musician
2-Jun-1927 4-Sep-1992 Don't Let Me Cross Over
Glen Campbell
Country Musician
22-Apr-1936   Rhinestone Cowboy
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Country Musician
21-Feb-1958   Never Had It So Good
Johnny Cash
Country Musician
26-Feb-1932 12-Sep-2003 The Man in Black
June Carter Cash
Country Musician
23-Jun-1929 15-May-2003 Country singer, wife of Johnny Cash
Rosanne Cash
Country Musician
24-May-1955   Rhythm and Romance
Kenny Chesney
Country Musician
26-Mar-1968   You Had Me From Hello
Eric Church
Country Musician
3-May-1977   Drink in My Hand
Guy Clark
Country Musician
6-Nov-1941   Old No. 1
Roy Clark
TV Personality
15-Apr-1933   Hee Haw
Terri Clark
Country Musician
5-Aug-1968   Better Things to Do
Patsy Cline
Country Musician
8-Sep-1932 5-Mar-1963 I Fall To Pieces
David Allan Coe
Country Musician
6-Sep-1939   Take This Job and Shove It
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Country Musician
5-Sep-1947   Unique outsider country performer
Floyd Cramer
Country Musician
27-Oct-1933 31-Dec-1997 Country music pianist
Rodney Crowell
Country Musician
7-Aug-1950   Diamonds & Dirt
Billy Currington
Country Musician
19-Nov-1973   Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right
Billy Ray Cyrus
Country Musician
25-Aug-1961   Achy Breaky Heart
Charlie Daniels
Country Musician
28-Oct-1936   The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Skeeter Davis
Country Musician
30-Dec-1931 19-Sep-2004 Country vocalist at Grand Ole Opry
Jimmy Dean
Country Musician
10-Aug-1928 13-Jun-2010 Singer, songwriter, sausage-maker
Jay DeMarcus
Country Musician
26-Apr-1971   Vocalist, Rascal Flatts
John Denver
Country Musician
31-Dec-1943 12-Oct-1997 Rocky Mountain High
Little Jimmie Dickens
Country Musician
19-Dec-1925   May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
Ronnie Dunn
Country Musician
1-Jun-1953   Brooks & Dunn
Steve Earle
Singer/Songwriter
17-Jan-1955   Hardcore Troubadour
Dale Evans
Country Musician
31-Oct-1912 7-Feb-2001 Singer and leading lady to Roy Rogers
Sara Evans
Country Musician
5-Feb-1971   No Place That Far
Red Foley
Country Musician
17-Jun-1910 19-Sep-1968 Country crooner, wrote Old Shep
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Country Musician
13-Feb-1919 17-Oct-1991 Sixteen Tons
Hank Garland
Country Musician
11-Nov-1930 27-Dec-2004 Country guitar virtuoso
Larry Gatlin
Country Musician
2-May-1948   One of the Gatlin Brothers
Rudy Gatlin
Country Musician
20-Aug-1952   The Gatlin Brothers
Crystal Gayle
Country Musician
9-Jan-1951   Country music star with hair to her ankles
Troy Gentry
Country Musician
5-Apr-1967   Montgomery Gentry
Don Gibson
Country Musician
3-Apr-1928 17-Nov-2003 Heartbroken country crooner
Brantley Gilbert
Country Musician
20-Jan-1985   Halfway to Heaven
Vince Gill
Country Musician
12-Apr-1957   Country music singer
Mickey Gilley
Country Musician
9-Mar-1936   Seventeen #1 country hits
Billy Gilman
Country Musician
24-May-1988   One Voice
Grandpa Jones
Country Musician
30-Jan-1914 19-Feb-1998 Old-time banjo picker and Hee-Haw comic
Lee Greenwood
Country Musician
27-Oct-1942   God Bless the U.S.A.
Merle Haggard
Country Musician
6-Apr-1937   Okie From Muskogee
Tom T. Hall
Country Musician
25-May-1936   Harper Valley PTA
Emmylou Harris
Country Musician
2-Apr-1947   Pieces of the Sky
Hunter Hayes
Country Musician
9-Sep-1991   Storm Warning
Lee Hazlewood
Music Producer
9-Jul-1929 4-Aug-2007 Cowboy in Sweden
Ty Herndon
Country Musician
2-May-1962   Country music star caught in cruisy park
Faith Hill
Country Musician
21-Sep-1967   Take Me as I Am
Ferlin Husky
Singer
3-Dec-1925 17-Mar-2011 On the Wings of a Dove
Alan Jackson
Country Musician
17-Oct-1958   Don't Rock The Jukebox
Waylon Jennings
Country Musician
15-Jun-1937 13-Feb-2002 Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
George Jones
Country Musician
12-Sep-1931   Country singer, White Lightning
Naomi Judd
Country Musician
11-Jan-1946   A Judd
Wynonna Judd
Country Musician
30-May-1964   Country music star
Toby Keith
Country Musician
8-Jul-1961   Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue
Sammy Kershaw
Country Musician
24-Feb-1958   She Don't Know She's Beautiful
Kris Kristofferson
Actor
22-Jun-1936   Me and Bobby McGee
Miranda Lambert
Country Musician
10-Nov-1983   Kerosene
Chris LeDoux
Country Musician
2-Oct-1948 9-Mar-2005 Rodeo star, cowboy singer
Brenda Lee
Country Musician
11-Dec-1944   Little Miss Dynamite, I'm Sorry
Gary LeVox
Country Musician
10-Jul-1970   Lead singer, Rascal Flatts
Patty Loveless
Country Musician
4-Jan-1957   "New traditionalist" country singer
Lyle Lovett
Country Musician
1-Nov-1957   The Road to Ensenada
Loretta Lynn
Country Musician
14-Apr-1932   Coal Miner's Daughter
Shelby Lynne
Country Musician
22-Oct-1968   Country/rock singer/songwriter
Natalie Maines
Country Musician
14-Oct-1974   Anti-Dubya Dixie Chick
Barbara Mandrell
Country Musician
25-Dec-1948   Midnight Oil
Irlene Mandrell
Country Musician
29-Jan-1957   The Mandrell Sisters
Louise Mandrell
Country Musician
13-Jul-1954   The Mandrell Sisters
Martina McBride
Country Musician
29-Jul-1966   My Baby Loves Me
Mindy McCready
Country Musician
30-Nov-1975   Troubled country music singer
Reba McEntire
Country Musician
28-Mar-1955   The Queen of Country Music
Tim McGraw
Country Musician
1-May-1967   Not a Moment Too Soon
Jo Dee Messina
Country Musician
25-Aug-1970   Country singer, Stand Beside Me
Eddie Miller
Country Musician
10-Dec-1919 11-Apr-1977 Release Me
Jody Miller
Country Musician
29-Nov-1941   Queen of the House
Roger Miller
Country Musician
2-Jan-1936 25-Oct-1992 King of the Road
Ronnie Milsap
Country Musician
16-Jan-1943   It Was Almost Like a Song
Patsy Montana
Country Musician
30-Oct-1908 3-May-1996 A Cowboy's Sweetheart
Justin Moore
Country Musician
30-Mar-1984   Small Town USA
Lorrie Morgan
Country Musician
27-Jun-1959   What Part of No
Willie Nelson
Country Musician
30-Apr-1933   The red-headed stranger
Jennifer Nettles
Country Musician
12-Sep-1974   Lead Singer, Sugarland
Joe Nichols
Country Musician
26-Nov-1976   Brokenheartsville
K. T. Oslin
Country Musician
15-May-1941   Prominent country music singer
Marie Osmond
Country Musician
13-Oct-1959   Donny and Marie Show
James Otto
Country Musician
29-Jul-1973   Just Got Started Lovin' You
Jake Owen
Country Musician
28-Aug-1981   Barefoot Blue Jean Night
Buck Owens
TV Personality
12-Aug-1929 25-Mar-2006 Hee Haw
Brad Paisley
Country Musician
28-Oct-1972   Mud on the Tires
Dolly Parton
Country Musician
19-Jan-1946   Jolene
Johnny Paycheck
Country Musician
31-May-1938 18-Feb-2003 Take This Job and Shove It
Danielle Peck
Country Musician
14-Sep-1978   Findin' a Good Man
Ray Price
Country Musician
12-Jan-1926   The Cherokee Cowboy
Charley Pride
Country Musician
18-Mar-1938   First black country music star
Eddie Rabbitt
Country Musician
27-Nov-1941 7-May-1998 Drivin' My Life Away
Collin Raye
Country Musician
22-Aug-1959   I Think About You
Jerry Reed
Country Musician
20-Mar-1937 1-Sep-2008 When You're Hot, You're Hot
Jim Reeves
Country Musician
20-Aug-1923 31-Jul-1964 He'll Have to Go
Charlie Rich
Country Musician
14-Dec-1932 25-Jul-1995 The Silver Fox
LeAnn Rimes
Country Musician
28-Aug-1982   How Do I Live
Tex Ritter
Country Musician
12-Jan-1905 2-Jan-1974 You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often
Marty Robbins
Country Musician
26-Sep-1925 8-Dec-1982 El Paso
Jimmie Rodgers
Country Musician
8-Sep-1897 26-May-1933 Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler
Kenny Rogers
Country Musician
21-Aug-1938   The Gambler
Joe Don Rooney
Country Musician
13-Sep-1975   Guitarist/vocalist, Rascal Flatts
Dan Seals
Country Musician
8-Feb-1948 25-Mar-2009 England Dan and John Ford Coley
Billy Joe Shaver
Country Musician
16-Aug-1939   Old Five and Dimers Like Me
Blake Shelton
Country Musician
18-Jun-1976   Austin
Ricky Van Shelton
Country Musician
12-Jan-1952   Popular 80s country singer
Jean Shepard
Country Musician
21-Nov-1933   Beautiful Lies
Ricky Skaggs
Country Musician
18-Jul-1954   Country music singer
Carl Smith
Country Musician
15-Mar-1927 16-Jan-2010 Mr. Country
Hank Snow
Country Musician
9-May-1914 20-Dec-1999 I'm Moving On
Red Sovine
Country Musician
17-Jul-1918 4-Apr-1980 The Old Syrup Sopper
Ray Stevens
Country Musician
24-Jan-1939   "The Streak"
George Strait
Country Musician
18-May-1952   Fool Hearted Memory
Taylor Swift
Country Musician
13-Dec-1989   Country music sensation
Hank Thompson
Country Musician
3-Sep-1925 6-Nov-2007 Honky Tonk Swing musician
Mel Tillis
Country Musician
8-Aug-1932   I Ain't Never
Pam Tillis
Country Musician
24-Jul-1957   Maybe It Was Memphis
Floyd Tillman
Country Musician
8-Dec-1914 22-Aug-2003 Honky-tonk drawler and guitarist
Merle Travis
Country Musician
29-Nov-1917 20-Oct-1983 Influential fingerpicking country guitarist
Randy Travis
Country Musician
4-May-1959   Country music artist, has 25 top ten hits
Travis Tritt
Country Musician
9-Feb-1963   Country music star with four #1 singles
Tanya Tucker
Country Musician
10-Oct-1958   Country music singer
Josh Turner
Country Musician
20-Nov-1977   Your Man
Shania Twain
Country Musician
28-Aug-1965   You're Still the One
Conway Twitty
Country Musician
1-Sep-1933 5-Jun-1993 It's Only Make Believe
Carrie Underwood
Country Musician
10-Mar-1983   American Idol 2005 winner
Keith Urban
Country Musician
26-Oct-1967   Country crooner
Porter Wagoner
Country Musician
12-Aug-1927 28-Oct-2007 The Thin Man from West Plains
Jerry Jeff Walker
Country Musician
16-Mar-1942   Mr. Bojangles
Kitty Wells
Country Musician
30-Aug-1919 16-Jul-2012 First Queen of Country Music
Dottie West
Country Musician
11-Oct-1932 4-Sep-1991 Country Sunshine
Shelly West
Country Musician
23-May-1958   José Cuervo
Bryan White
Country Musician
17-Feb-1974   Someone Else's Star
Keith Whitley
Country Musician
1-Jul-1955 9-May-1989 Don't Close Your Eyes
Slim Whitman
Country Musician
20-Jan-1924   Western singer, balladeer and yodeler
Hank Williams, Jr.
Country Musician
26-May-1949   Monday Night Football theme
Hank Williams, Sr.
Country Musician
17-Sep-1923 1-Jan-1953 Take These Chains From My Heart
Jett Williams
Country Musician
6-Jan-1953   Daughter of Hank Williams, Sr.
Boxcar Willie
Country Musician
1-Sep-1931 12-Apr-1999 World's favorite hobo
Lee Ann Womack
Country Musician
19-Aug-1966   I Hope You Dance
Tom Wopat
Actor
9-Sep-1951   Luke Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard
Chely Wright
Country Musician
25-Oct-1970   Shut Up And Drive
Tammy Wynette
Country Musician
5-May-1942 6-Apr-1998 Stand By Your Man
Trisha Yearwood
Country Musician
19-Sep-1964   Country-folk singer
Dwight Yoakam
Country Musician
23-Oct-1956   Country star, This Time



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