In 2013, George Jones dies at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. Widely regarded as one of the genre’s all-time greatest singers, 1997, George Strait begins a five-week stay at the top of the chart with “One Night At A Time”, 1995, Tracy Byrd grabs his first platinum album, for “No Ordinary Man”, also in 1995, Pam Tillis scores her second platinum album, for “Sweetheart’s Dance,” exactly one year after the album’s release, 1980, Dottie West’s “A Lesson In Leavin'” goes to #1 on the Billboard country chart, 1971, Sammi Smith picks up the only gold single of her career,