September 20th:
1956
Touring North America, Johnny Cash appeared at the Memorial Coliseum in Corpus Christi, Texas.
1969
Special guests on this week’s Johnny Cash ABC television music variety show included, Cass Elliot, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, The Staple Singers and Tommy Cash. Jack Elliot performed “If I Were A Carpenter” then he and Cash dueted on “Take Me Home.”
1971
Lynn Anderson was at #1 on the US Country album charts with You’re My Man her fourth studio album for Columbia Records. The album stayed at #1 for a total of seven weeks.
1982
Jerry Reed was at #1 on the US Country chart with, “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)”. Written by Tim DuBois the song is a satire on divorce, and became Reed’s third and final #1 country hit, and one of his signature tunes.
1998
Alan Jackson was at #1 on the Country charts with his seventh studio album, High Mileage. It produced four hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts for Jackson: “I’ll Go on Loving You”, “Right on the Money”, “Gone Crazy”, and “Little Man”.
2008
The Farm Aid 2008, benefit concert took place at the Comcast Center, Mansfield, Massachusetts. Held to raise money for family farmers in the US, the concerts were organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young. Artists who appeared included: Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds with Jerry Lee Lewis, Kenny Chesney, The Pretenders, moe., Arlo Guthrie, Steve Earle, Nation Beat, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Jakob Dylan and The Gold Mountain Rebels, Danielle Evin, Jamey Johnson, Jesse Lenat, Will Dailey, One Flew South, and The Elms.
