Trace Adkins Gets Married, Gretchen Wilson Shows Up For The Party – Today In Country Music History

We got our first taste of Gretchen Wilson's rockin' Country music on this date in 2004, Trace Adkins got hitched in 1997, Faith Hill got some gold in 1994 and more.

Here's the list for Today In Country Music History for 11 May, 2012.

• Gretchen Wilson's debut album, Here For The Party, was released in 2004.

• Trace Adkins married Rhonda Forlaw at Nashville's Belle Meade Mansion in front of 800 people in 1997.

• Faith Hill claimed her first gold award for her debut album, Take Me As I Am, in 1994.

• George Strait's "If I Know Me" climbed to Number One on the Billboard country chart in 1991.

• Lester Flatt died in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 64 in 1979.

• Steve Wariner became a Grand Ole Opry cast member in 1996.

• The Everly Brothers debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in 1957.

Here's a look back at Gretchen from 2004.

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Dave D.