Chris O’Kelley

Chris O’Kelley

Chris O’Kelley

We are into the month of June with Flying Colors and here is your June 8th Country Music History.    From Lainey Wilson to Garth Brooks, we’ve got it all for your country music history.

2022
Lainey Wilson joins Marty Stuart on “Lost Highway” during his Late Night Jam at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on the eve of CMA Fest.

2021
Chris Lane and his wife Lauren Bushnell welcome a son, Dutton Walker Lane, in Nashville

2019
Thomas Rhett raises $100,000 for charity with a concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena that celebrates his new album, “Center Point Road.

2019

Lady Antebellum headlines the Swan Ball, a benefit for the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens in Nashville

2017
Luke Combs earns his first platinum single from the RIAA for “Hurricane”

2017
Garth Brooks makes a surprise appearance at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium during the CMA Music Festival, playing “The Thunder Rolls” and “Friends In Low Places

2016
Loretta Lynn postpones a pair of concerts days after the death of her 47-year-old grandson, Jeffrey Allen Lynn

2015

Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium unveils a $14-million renovation, featuring a new theater and a cafe

2015
Darius Rucker holds his sixth annual benefit for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville.

2011
Jana Kramer is divorced from Johnathan Schaech

2011
Willie Nelson pays a $500 fine for the possession of drug paraphernalia in Texas in the aftermath of a November arrest

2011
Blake Shelton is the only double winner in the CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville

  • Lainey Wilson

  • Thomas Rhett

  • Blake Shelton

  • Jana Kramer

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