Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Tues., April 9) Advertisement (April 9) Rockabilly pioneer Carl Perkins was born in 1932. Kay Adams was born in 1941. Margo Smith was born in 1942. Con Hunley was born in 1945. Hal Ketchum was born in 1953. Restless Heart keyboardist David Innis was born in 1959. Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces" entered the country music charts in 1961. The Carl Perkins Museum opened in Jackson, Tenn., on the singer's 59th birthday in 1981. Robert Duvall received Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as a country singer in "Tender Mercies" in 1984. The Judds' "Heartland" album was certified gold in 1987. Darrell Glenn died in 1990 at age 54. Patty Loveless's "Honky Tonk Angel" album was certified gold in 1991. Songwriter Mae Boren Axton died at age 82 in 1997. She co-wrote the Elvis Presley classic hit "Heartbreak Hotel." Johnny Hicks also died in 1997. MUSIC AND MORE DOLLY PARTON Dolly Parton is taking her show on the road this summer, after a 10-year hiatus from touring, in support of her new album, "Halos and Horns." The CD is due out in July. Advertisement "We just get thousands of calls a day, 'When you going on tour?' and I thought, you know what? If people really want to see me, I think I will kind of see if I like it again," Parton told CMT.com last Saturday during a round of interviews and a news conference that touted the opening of her newly expanded Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. "I won't be touring as much as I did in the old days," Parton vows, "but I'm going to be doing some special tours." Dates and locations for Parton's summer concert appearances have not been announced, but she is scheduled to perform May 17 in Minneapolis in an event benefiting the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America. Parton says she'll wait until May to begin rehearsing, but she already has the band lined up and she has given them a name, the "Blue-niques." "Halos and Horns" includes Parton's version of Led Zeppelin's classic "Stairway to Heaven." Also on the new project, which she produced herself at Southern Sound Studios in Knoxville, Tenn., Parton covers Bread's hit ballad "If," from 1971, in up-tempo bluegrass style. The rest of the songs are Parton originals. TY HERNDON MUGGED Advertisement The record company representing country singer Ty Herndon confirms that he was robbed while walking to a restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif., recently. Herndon -- who has lived on the west coast for several years -- said while he was walking, he was shadowed by a slow-moving car. The vehicle reportedly eventually stopped and two men jumped out and held Herndon at gunpoint and demanded the singer's wallet. After taking his money, they returned to their car and sped off. Herndon's publicist says the singer was visibly shaken by the experience. Ironically, his latest CD contains a reference to a person who is dying of a gunshot after being wounded in a holdup. (Web site: tyherndon.com) (Thanks to UPI's Dennis Daily)
