1928 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1928.

Events

"The first edition of Bradley Kincaid's 1928 songbook called My Favorite Mountain Ballads sold more than 100,000 copies;[1]

March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, honky-tonk singer-songwriter (died 1975).
April 3 - Don Gibson, singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1950s through late 1970s (died 2003).
May 3 - Dave Dudley, singer best known for his truck-driving anthems ("Six Days on the Road") (died 2003).
August 10 - Jimmy Dean, singer-songwriter best known for "Big Bad John" and other 1960s ballads; television host and businessman/founder of eponymously named sausage company (died 2010).
December 17 - George Lindsey, comedian-actor who played Goober Pyle on television's The Andy Griffith Show and Hee Haw (died 2012).

1. ^ a b c d e f Bradley Kincaid, Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame. Accessed 25 August 2007.

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