Kix with Ken

1938 Born on this day in Spring City, Tennessee, was Hargus Melvin “Pig” Robbins, American session keyboard and piano player. Having played on records for artists such as George Jones, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, David

1950 Born on this day in Bexar, Arkansas, was David Lynn Jones, country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1994, Jones released four studio albums. His highest charting single, “Bonnie Jean (Little Sister),” peaked at #10 in 1987.

1915 Born on this day in Decatur, Illinois, was American country music singer-songwriter Jenny Lou Carson, the first woman to write a #1 country music hit, (the 1945 hit “You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often”). From

1905 Born on this day, was Woodward Maurice Ritter, better known as Tex Ritter, the American country music singer and movie actor who was popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s. He was the first artist signed

1930 Born on this day in Maryville, Tennessee, was Jack Greene the country musician nicknamed the “Jolly Green Giant”. His best known song is the 1966 #1 hit “There Goes My Everything.” He died at home on

1937 Born on this day in Huntland, Tennessee, was Lorene Mann, American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for her duets with Justin Tubb and Archie Campbell. Mann was a co-founder of the Nashville Songwriters Association