Bill Cody walks through the best years of country music, including the biggest albums, breakthroughs, and debuts of the year
Where to Watch History of Country • Season 1
12 Episodes
1977
E1
1977Star Wars was seeing huge success, and country-styled movies like Smokey and The Bandit were creating their own cult status with fans. Eddie Rabbitt and Waylon Jennings hit their stride in '77 with top vocals and albums.
1989
E2
1989Bill Cody, takes you back to 1989. The year the Big 4 (Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and Travis Tritt) took over and changed the path of country music forever. Mainstays thrived while new artists rose up the charts.
1969
E3
1969Diving into the year1969; Willie Nelson saved Trigger and Dolly was inducted to the Grand Ole Opry.
1992
E4
1992Bill Cody takes you back to 1992. Achy Breaky Heart and Boot-Scootin' Boogie bring everyone to the dance floor, John Michael Montgomery makes his chart debut, and Hee Haw gets a revamp to showcase more pop-modern country artists.
1980
E5
1980Bill Cody takes you back to 1980. Star-packed movies hit Hollywood, Alabama catapults to super-stardom and The Eagles take their country rock off the market and break up.
1971
E6
1971Bill Cody takes you back to 1971. The year country's silver screen went dark, Charley Pride receives country's Entertainer of the Year Award, and Lynn Anderson becomes a crossover sensation.
1996
E7
1996Bill Cody looks back to 1996; the year where Brooks and Dunn take off and more.
1975
E8
19751975; the year when Country artists achieve success; John Denver wins CMA Entertainer of the Year.
1983
E9
1983Bill Cody takes you back to 1983. The year The Judd's signed a recording contract and Kenny and Dolly release their mega hit "Islands in the Stream".
2000
E10
2000Country DJ Hall of Famer, Bill Cody, takes you back to 2000. Country music enters a new millennium, Kenny Rogers becomes the oldest singer to earn a #1 and Garth Brooks announces his retirement.
1986
E11
1986Country DJ Hall of Famer, Bill Cody, takes you back to 1986. The year of classic country music debuts, a "Desperado Love" from Conway tugs at heartstrings, and Cash says goodbye to Columbia Records.
1963
E12
1963Bill Cody takes you back to 1963. The year Johnny Cash introduces the world to "Ring of Fire", bittersweet mourning engulfs the country scene with many deaths in the span of a month, and a country duo, 20 years in the making, part ways.
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