Birthday cake might be the most appropriate for country music fans today – April 22, 2025. There’s a large handful of country music singers born on April 22, including the beloved Rhinestone Cowboy himself, Glen Campbell.
For history-loving country music fans, here’s a basket of genre-specific events to celebrate today.
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1935
Carl Perkins’ and Johnny Cash’s drummer W. S. “Fluke” Holland was born in Saltillo, Tennessee. Holland played in Cash’s The Tennessee Three, The Great Eighties Eight, and The Johnny Cash Show Band. He drummed on Perkins’ 1955 Sun Records recording of “Blue Suede Shoes.” Holland died September 23, 2020, at 85, in his home in Jackson, Tennessee.
1936
Glen Campbell, who made a name for himself as an impactful singer, songwriter, actor, guitar player, and Alzheimer’s spokesperson, was born in Pike County, Arkansas. Campbell is known for hit songs, including “Gentle On My Mind,” “Wichita Lineman,” and “Rhinestone Cowboy.” He also toured with the Beach Boys when Brian Wilson was sick and played guitar on Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” by Frank Sinatra and The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin.’” He died in a Nashville-area Alzheimer’s treatment facility in 2017. He was 81.
1971
Country singer Kellie Coffey was born in Moore, Oklahoma. He debuted in 2002 with “When You Lie Next to Me” and won Top New Female Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards.
1998
Charlie Daniels won the Pioneer Award at the 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards in Los Angeles. Other winners included Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Brooks & Dunn and Kenny Chesney.
2003
Felice Bryant, who co-wrote Rocky Top with her husband Boudleaux, died of cancer. The pair also co-wrote The Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love,” “All I Have To Do Is Dream,” and “Wake Up Little Susie.”
Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Tony Bennett, Simon & Garfunkel, Grateful Dead, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Ruth Brown, Cher, and Ray Charles also recorded songs the pair wrote.
2007
Emmylou Harris, Wynonna Judd, The Crickets, and John Hiatt were inducted into Nashville’s Music City Walk of Fame.
2011
Miranda Lambert’s supergroup, trio Pistol Annies, debuted on CBS at the Academy of Country Music’s Girls’ Night Out: Superstar Women of Country. The trio includes Lambert, nicknamed Lonestar Annie, Ashley Monroe, who calls herself Hippie Annie, and Angaleena Presley, otherwise known as Holler Annie. They sang “Hell on Heels” and released their album of the same name four months later.
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