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George Jones
George Jones was the American country music star best known to general audiences by way of the 1980 hit "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Country music fans know him as the longtime Nashville star…Roy Clark
Roy Clark was the highest paid country music star in the U.S. in the early 1970s, a multi-instrumentalist with the hit song "Yesterday When I Was Young" and one of the hosts of TV's Hee Haw, a comedy…Jimmie Davis
Name at birth: James Houston DavisJimmie Davis had an unusual dual career as a politician and a country music singer. A budding radio singer and guitarist throughout the 1930s, he recorded the…Chet Atkins
Country music star Chet Atkins's finger-picking guitar career lasted for half a century. In the early 1950s he moved to Nashville and his first album, Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar, came out in 1953…Bill Monroe
Name at birth: William Smith MonroeBill Monroe was a Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter whose influence on country music earned him the nickname "The Father of Bluegrass." Monroe was the…Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff was a crooning fiddle player from the mountains of Tennessee who became one of country music's biggest stars. Acuff, a gifted athlete, started out to be a baseball player before a…Chris Stapleton
Country music star Chris Stapleton wrote hit songs for others for nearly fifteen years before winning the industry's top awards in 2015 and 2016 for his debut album, Traveller. He grew up in…Merle Haggard
Fiercely independent and loaded with down-home credibility, Merle Haggard was a country music star from the mid-1960s until his death in 2016, best known for the song "Okie From Muskogee." Merle…Music Awards
There are many music awards given out each year. Find out which artists, producers, writers, and other professionals in the music industry have been celebrated over the years. The Brit Awards…Biographies: Selected Country Musicians
Selected Country Musicians Hank Williams See also Notable Women Musicians and Dancers Notable African-American Musicians Notable African-American Visual and Performing Artists…Trending
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