Country Music 1927
Events
- Between July and August, Ralph Peer rents a department store in Bristol , Tennessee to have new hillbilly musicians auditioned. During these so-called "Bristol Sessions" Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family are discovered
Top hits of the year
- Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers -
- "Lindenberg (The Eagle Of The USA)" - Vernon Dalhart
- "Lucky Lindy" - Vernon Dalhart
- "My Carolina Home" - Carson Robison and Vernon Dalhart
- "Poor Orphan Child" - The Carter Family
- "Sleep, Baby Sleep" - Jimmie Rodgers
- "Wandering Boy" - The Carter Family
- "Red River Valley" - Riley Puckett and Hugh Cross
- "You Ain't Talkin 'To Me" - Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
- "The Sporting Bachelor" - Buell Kazee
- "Sweet Bunch Of Roses" - Clayton McMichen
Born
- February 25 - Ralph Stanley
- August 12th - Porter Wagoner
- September 7 - Ray Harris
- Unknown day - Lynn Pratt