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On June 4, 2022, Zach Bryan's American Heartbreak hit No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart. In 1960, Patsy Cline sang on ABC's Ozark Jubilee, doing "Lovesick Blues" and a duet with Cowboy Copas. Gordie Tapp and Freddy Fender share this birthday.
Zach Bryan's American Heartbreak hit No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart. The three-disc set was his major-label debut, and it included "Something in the Orange," which climbed to No. 10 on the Hot 100.
Gordie Tapp was born in London, Ontario. The Canadian funnyman and broadcaster became a familiar face on Hee Haw, where he played Cousin Clem. He joined the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990 and died in 2016 at 94.
Songwriter and radio host Bill Mack was born. He wrote "Blue," the song that made LeAnn Rimes a star and won him a Grammy for Best Country Song in 1997. He also penned "Drinking Champagne." Mack died in 2020.
Freddy Fender was born in San Benito, Texas. His 1975 hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" went to No. 1 on both the country and pop charts. He later sang with the Texas Tornados and died in 2006.
Kasey Chambers was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia. She became one of Australia's top country stars, and her album Barricades & Brickwalls reached the top 20 of the U.S. country chart.
Patsy Cline sang on ABC's Ozark Jubilee, doing "Lovesick Blues" and a duet with Cowboy Copas. It was one of her many visits to the show, which brought country music into millions of living rooms.
Trace Adkins and his family lost their home in Brentwood, Tennessee, to a fire that afternoon.
John Hartford died at 63 in Nashville. The fiddle and banjo player made more than 30 albums and won a Grammy for his work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.
Gordie Tapp (1922), Freddy Fender (1937) and Kasey Chambers (1976) were all born on this date.
It depends on the year. In 2022, Zach Bryan's American Heartbreak hit No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.
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