News: Today in Country Music History November 7

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2008	Taylor Swift's edition of "CMT Crossroads," in which she's matched with classic-rock band Def Leppard, debuts. They team on "Picture To Burn," "Photograph," "Love Story" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
2006	Mercury releases Sugarland's "Enjoy The Ride" album
2004	Roger Miller's "King Of The Road" is recognized at #1 in the CMT special "40 Greatest Road Songs"
2004	The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame adds Guy Clark ("Heartbroke"), Freddie Hart ("Easy Loving"), Dennis Morgan ("I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool") and Billy Joe Shaver ("I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal")
2003	Emmylou Harris tapes an installment of "CMT Crossroads" at the Hammerstein Ballroom, in New York with Dave Matthews. The program is hosted by Radney Foster
2001	The T Bone Burnett-produced "O Brother, Where Are Thou?" wins Album of the Year and one of its tracks, The Soggy Bottom Boys' "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow," takes Single during the 35th Country Music Association awards from Nashville on CBS
1998	The Dixie Chicks begin a four-week stay at #1 in Billboard with "Wide Open Spaces"
1995	Exactly nine months after the album's release, Shania Twain's "The Woman In Me" is certified triple-platinum
1988	RCA releases Alabama's "Song Of The South"
1949	Red Foley records "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy," hailed as the first million-selling country release cut in Nashville, at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel, along with "Careless Kisses" and "I Gotta Have My Baby Back"