Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Tuesday, Jan. 28) Advertisement Bill Phillips born in Canton, N.C., 1936. Bluegrasser Earl Taylor dies at 54, 1984. Roy Acuff recorded his signature song "Wabash Cannonball" in 1947. Elvis Presley makes his first national TV appearance, 1956. Buck Owens records No. 1 singles "My Heart Skips a Beat" and "Together Again," 1964. Jimmy Fortune's first performance with the Statler Brothers, 1982. Randy Travis' "Deeper Than the Holler" reaches top of Billboard country chart, 1989. John Michael Montgomery tops R&R chart with "I Swear," 1994. Alan Jackson's "Gone Country" hits top of Billboard country chart, 1995 . The Dixie Chicks release debut album "Wide Open Spaces," 1998. MUSIC AND MORE TIM LAUNCHES ROAD TRIP MARCH 7 Tim McGraw launches his tour March 7 in Birmingham, Ala., to perform new music from his double-platinum album "Tim McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors." The two-and-a-half-hour show, "Tim McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors' One Band Show," currently is scheduled for 50 cities through late spring. Advertisement "We want the time and space to go deeper musically -- to play album cuts and all kinds of songs that we jam on in rehearsal, but never get to play in concert," McGraw says. For more information, visit McGraw's Web site, timmcgraw.com. ALISON KRAUSS IN BLUES SALUTE LINEUP Bluegrass artist Alison Krauss has joined the lineup for the Salute to the Blues concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Feb. 7. Levon Helm also has been added to the long list of musicians scheduled for the event to launch "The Year of the Blues," as designated by Congress. The show will be filmed and made into a movie to be produced by Martin Scorsese, executive producer of "The Last Waltz," a documentary about the farewell concert by The Band. REBA DOESN'T THINK SHE'S A TV STAR Despite the ratings success of Reba McEntire's sitcom, "Reba," the country music superstar doesn't consider herself a television star. Not quite. Backstage after the American Music Awards, McEntire said "I guess I'm a TV twinkle right now, I'm still working up that stardom," LAUNCH reports. The WB show is now in its second season. Advertisement
