Music Features
A Day in Music - July 30th
Today in country music history:
2008 - Alan Jackson's album Good Time went gold.
2007 - Rodney Atkins received a diploma from Tennessee Tech in Cookeville 14 years after he stopped taking classes. School officials discovered he'd earned enough credits for a newly created degree.
1991 - Travis Tritt got his first platinum album for Country Club.
1985 - Alabama became the first country act to go quadruple-platinum with both Mountain Music and Feels So Right. Their album The Closer You Get was certified triple-platinum.
1968 - Johnny Cash recorded the Carl Perkins-written "Daddy Sang Bass" in Nashville with The Statler Brothers and Jan Howard singing with him.
1955 - Johnny Cash recorded the first version of "Folsom Prison Blues" at the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis.
1954 – Elvis Presley gave his first live performance at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis.
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