Taylor Swift Spotted At Crime Scene, Elvis Presley Discharged – Today In Country Music History

Taylor Swift was actively involved in a Crime Scene on this date in 2009, Steve Earle was headed to town in 1986 and Elvis Presley was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1960.

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• Taylor Swift made her TV acting debut on CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2009.

• Pat Green made his Grand Ole Opry debut at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House in 2005.

• Gretchen Wilson's debut single, "Redneck Woman," was released to radio in 2004.

• Vince Gill's Pocket Full Of Gold album was released in 1991.

• Steve Earle's Guitar Town album was released in 1986.

• Johnny Cash recorded "One Piece At A Time" in Hendersonville, Tennessee at the House of Cash in 1976.

• Alabama appeared for the first time at the Bowery Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1973.

• A plane crash in Camden, Tennessee, claimed the lives of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes as they returned to Nashville from a charity concert in Kansas City in 1963.

• Elvis Presley was discharged from the Army in 1960.

• George Hamilton IV joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1960.

It's hard to believe this is from sixteen years ago. Here's Steve Earle from 1986.

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Dave D.