In the movie Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges played a down and out country singer named Bad Blake, earning himself an Oscar for Best Actor in the process. While we most often think of Jeff as an actor (We've seen him lately in Tron: Legacy and True Grit), it turns out he's had a lifelong attraction to music as well.
As they were putting the songs together for the movie, Jeff and some others realized the
Sara Evans was "flying" on this date in 2001, Producer T-Bone Burnett was wondering where his "brothers" were in that same year and Steve Wariner had a big "weekend" in 1987.
Here's the list for Today In Country Music History for 25 July, 2011.