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On December 27, 1986, Hank Williams Jr. reached No. 1 on the country chart with "Mind Your Own Business," a song his daddy first cut in 1949. In 1968, Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" held the top spot on Billboard's country singles chart. Walker Hayes and Les Taylor share this birthday.
Hank Williams Jr. reached No. 1 on the country chart with "Mind Your Own Business," a song his daddy first cut in 1949. Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty and Reverend Ike all joined in on the new version.
Steel guitar player John Hughey was born in Elaine, Arkansas. Famous for his "crying steel" sound, he backed Conway Twitty for 20 years and Vince Gill for 12. He died in 2007 at 73.
Les Taylor was born in Oneida, Kentucky. He sang lead and played rhythm guitar in Exile, then went solo in 1989. He also co-wrote Janie Fricke's No. 1 hit "It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy."
Jeff Bryant, drummer and co-founder of Ricochet, was born. He played on the band's hits until carpal tunnel syndrome forced him out in 1999.
Walker Hayes was born in Mobile, Alabama. His 2021 hit "Fancy Like" went to No. 1 on the country chart and climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" held the top spot on Billboard's country singles chart. It went on to become one of his best-loved records.
Ronnie Milsap topped the country singles chart with "A Woman in Love," from his album Stranger Things Have Happened. Curtis Wright and Doug Millett wrote it. It turned out to be the last of his many No. 1 hits.
Kenny Chesney's "There Goes My Life" sat at No. 1 on the country chart. Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley wrote the song, and it stayed on top for seven weeks.
Luke Combs' second album, What You See Is What You Get, was back at No. 1 on the country albums chart. The album had already given him his first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
Guitar great Hank Garland died at 74 in Orange Park, Florida. He cut the million-selling "Sugarfoot Rag" when he was just 18, and he played on Elvis Presley's Nashville sessions from 1958 to 1961.
Craig Strickland, lead singer of the band Backroad Anthem, lost his life after a duck hunting trip on Kaw Lake in Oklahoma during a bad winter storm. His friend Chase Morland also died.
Source: news4sanantonio.comBluegrass singer and mandolin player Curly Seckler died in Nashville at 98, just two days after his birthday. He spent years in Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys between 1949 and 1962.
Les Taylor (1948) and Walker Hayes (1979) were all born on this date.
It depends on the year. In 1968, Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" held the top spot on Billboard's country singles chart. In 1986, Hank Williams Jr. reached No. 1 on the country chart with "Mind Your Own Business," a song his daddy first cut in 1949.
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