- Posted November 19, 2024
was born October 17, 1941, in Portsmouth, Ohio
charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart,…
Tom T. Hall
Today’s Country Legend was born May 25, in Tick Ridge, seven miles from Olive Hill, Kentucky,
As a teenager, he organized a band called the Kentucky Travelers that performed before movies for a traveling theater.
big songwriting break came in 1963, when country singer Jimmy C. Newman recorded his song “DJ For a Day”.
was nicknamed “The Storyteller”, and he composed songs for dozens of country music stars, including Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, and Bobby Bare.
February 12, 2008, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Today’s Country Legend is the Storyteller Tom T.