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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Roy Acuff
Country Musician
15-Sep-1903 23-Nov-1992 Country music pioneer
Bill Anderson
Country Musician
1-Nov-1937   Po' Folks
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
Johnny Bond
Country Musician
1-Jun-1915 12-Jun-1978 Hot Rod Lincoln
Boudleaux Bryant
Songwriter
13-Feb-1920 25-Jun-1987 Wake Up, Little Susie
Felice Bryant
Songwriter
7-Aug-1925 22-Apr-2003 Wake Up, Little Susie
Johnny Cash
Country Musician
26-Feb-1932 12-Sep-2003 The Man in Black
Roy Clark
TV Personality
15-Apr-1933   Hee Haw
Patsy Cline
Country Musician
8-Sep-1932 5-Mar-1963 I Fall To Pieces
Floyd Cramer
Country Musician
27-Oct-1933 31-Dec-1997 Country music pianist
Jimmie Davis
Singer/Songwriter
11-Sep-1899 5-Nov-2000 You Are My Sunshine
Little Jimmie Dickens
Country Musician
19-Dec-1925   May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
Don Everly
Musician
1-Feb-1937   The Everly Brothers
Phil Everly
Musician
19-Jan-1939   The Everly Brothers
Lester Flatt
Musician
19-Jun-1914 11-May-1979 Bluegrass pioneer, Flatt & Scruggs
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
Don Gibson
Country Musician
3-Apr-1928 17-Nov-2003 Heartbroken country crooner
Grandpa Jones
Country Musician
30-Jan-1914 19-Feb-1998 Old-time banjo picker and Hee-Haw comic
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
Ferlin Husky
Singer
3-Dec-1925 17-Mar-2011 On the Wings of a Dove
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
Brenda Lee
Country Musician
11-Dec-1944   Little Miss Dynamite, I'm Sorry
Loretta Lynn
Country Musician
14-Apr-1932   Coal Miner's Daughter
Barbara Mandrell
Country Musician
25-Dec-1948   Midnight Oil
Roger Miller
Country Musician
2-Jan-1936 25-Oct-1992 King of the Road
Patsy Montana
Country Musician
30-Oct-1908 3-May-1996 A Cowboy's Sweetheart
Willie Nelson
Country Musician
30-Apr-1933   The red-headed stranger
Dolly Parton
Country Musician
19-Jan-1946   Jolene
Minnie Pearl
Singer
25-Oct-1912 4-Mar-1996 Her hat cost $1.98
Elvis Presley
Singer
8-Jan-1935 16-Aug-1977 Rock and roll icon
Ray Price
Country Musician
12-Jan-1926   The Cherokee Cowboy
Jim Reeves
Country Musician
20-Aug-1923 31-Jul-1964 He'll Have to Go
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
Roy Rogers
Actor
5-Nov-1911 6-Jul-1998 Cowboy movie actor, rode Trigger
Jean Shepard
Country Musician
21-Nov-1933   Beautiful Lies
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
George Strait
Country Musician
18-May-1952   Fool Hearted Memory
Hank Thompson
Country Musician
3-Sep-1925 6-Nov-2007 Honky Tonk Swing musician
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
Ernest Tubb
Musician
9-Feb-1914 6-Sep-1984 The Texas Troubador
Conway Twitty
Country Musician
1-Sep-1933 5-Jun-1993 It's Only Make Believe
Porter Wagoner
Country Musician
12-Aug-1927 28-Oct-2007 The Thin Man from West Plains
Kitty Wells
Country Musician
30-Aug-1919 16-Jul-2012 First Queen of Country Music
Hank Williams, Sr.
Country Musician
17-Sep-1923 1-Jan-1953 Take These Chains From My Heart
Bob Wills
Musician
6-Mar-1905 13-May-1975 King of Western Swing
Tammy Wynette
Country Musician
5-May-1942 6-Apr-1998 Stand By Your Man
Faron Young
Musician
25-Feb-1932 10-Dec-1996 The Hillbilly Heartthrob


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