opened on Music Row (Sixteenth Avenue and Division Street) in Nashville. The Museum opened in a $37 million landmark, new building in May 2001 located on the west bank of the Cumberland River, just a few steps from the historic Ryman Auditorium.

Garth Brooks was featured on the cover of magazine billing him inside as a "jumping-jack-flash performer who can bring 40-year-olds to tears with existential hymns about accepting life's compromises."

Clint Black was at #1 on the Country singles chart with "Nothin' but The Taillights" the third single and title track from his album of the same name. This single became Black's eleventh #1 single, twenty-sixth Top Ten single, and twenty-seventh Top Tw...

American country music legend Kenny Rogers died aged 81. Rogers topped pop and country charts during the 1970s and 1980s, and won three Grammy awards. He was known for his husky voice and ballads including The Gambler, Lucille and Coward Of The County....

Janis Joplin started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart with her version of the Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster song "Me And Bobby McGee." Joplin, who was a lover and a friend of Kristofferson's from the beginning of her career to her deat...

American country musician Jack Greene died from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 83 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Jolly Greene Giant" due to his height and deep voice, Greene was a long time member of the Grand Ole Opry. A t...

Dixie Chick Natalie Maines issued an apology after she made a comment about United States President George W. Bush regarding the current situation in Iraq: "As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespect...

California governor Ronald Reagan granted Country singer Merle Haggard a full pardon for all his past crimes. Haggard was arrested for attempting to rob a Bakersfield tavern in 1957 and was sent to the San Quentin state prison for three years.