Johnny Paycheck Gets Out Of Prison, Lady Antebellum Runs – Today In Country Music History [VIDEO]

Lady Antebellum was Running To You on this date in 2009, Johnny Paycheck was released from prison in 1991 after serving two years of a seven year sentence and Country Music got its very first platinum album in 1976. Can you guess what it was?

Here's the list for Today In Country Music History for 12 January, 2011.

• LadyAntebellum's "I Run To You" was released to radio in 2009.

• Garth Brooks climbed to Number One on the Billboard country singles chart with "Unanswered Prayers" in 1991.

• Johnny Paycheck was released from an Ohio prison in 1991 after serving two years for shooting a man in a Hillsboro, Ohio, bar during December 1985. He was originally sentenced to seven years.

• Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1957.

• Johnnie & Jack recorded "Hank Williams Will Live Forever" just days after the legend's death in 1953.

• Wanted! The Outlaws, country's first platinum album, was released in 1976.

Here's a track from The Outlaws with lead vocals from Tompall Glaser.

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Dave D.