1929 in country music

Events

Top hits of the year

Births

• January 17 – Grady Martin, session guitarist and member of Nashville's "A Team"
• March 13 – Jan Howard, Grand Ole Opry star. Best known for "Evil on Your Mind".
• March 27 – Don Warden, best known for his years on The Porter Wagoner Show and as the manager of Wagoner and Dolly Parton.
• May 1 – Sonny James, singer of the 1950s through early 1980s who once had 16 consecutive No. 1 songs—many of them covers of pop hits—on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart; "The Southern Gentleman".
• June 23 – June Carter Cash, member of the legendary Carter Family and wife of Johnny Cash
• July 9 – Jesse McReynolds, Grand Ole Opry star.
• August 12 – Buck Owens, key innovator of the "Bakersfield Sound," which resulted in immense popularity from the 1960s onward; co-host of Hee Haw from 1969–1986.

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