Originally published in the January 3, 1995 issue of Country Weekly magazine.
God blessed Texas with lots of country stars — and Oklahoma, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida, too!
Country music’s biggest stars hail from all over the lower 48, from New Jersey (Clint Black, Mary Chapin Carpenter) to California (Lee Greenwood), but there must be something in the water in the South, as this map of your favorite stars’ birthplaces prove.
Oklahoma
- Garth Brooks (Yukon)
- Joe Diffie (Duncan)
- Toby Keith (Moore)
- Vince Gill (Norman)
- Reba McEntire (Chockie)
Kentucky
- Wynonna (Ashland)
- Billy Ray Cyrus (Flatwoods)
- Patty Loveless (Belcher Holler)
- Loretta Lynn (Butcher Holler)
- John Michael Montgomery (Nicholasville)
- Dwight Yoakam (Pike Floyd Holler)
Texas
- Mark Chesnutt (Beaumont)
- Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn (Coleman)
- George Jones (Saratoga)
- Tracy Lawrence (Atlanta)
- Neal McCoy (Longview)
- George Strait (Pearsall)
- Tanya Tucker (Seminole)
- Clay Walker (Beaumont)
- *Tracy Byrd (Vidor)
- *Radney Foster (Del Rio)
- *Willie Nelson (Abbott)
Georgia
- Alan Jackson (Newnan)
- Doug Stone (Atlanta)
- Trisha Yearwood (Monticello)
- *Travis Tritt (Marietta)
Florida
- John Anderson (Apopka)
- Billy Dean (Quincy)
- Raul Malo of The Mavericks (Miami)
- Aaron Tippin (Pensacola)
*Note that when birthplace is a tossup (Garth: Luba or Yukon?) have used town he considers hometown not just accident of birth.
Full List
| Artist | Birthplace | Date of Birth |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson, John | Apopka, Fla. | Dec. 13, 1954 |
| Black, Clint | Long Branch, N.J. | Feb. 4, 1962 |
| Bogguss, Suzy | Aledo, Ill. | Dec. 30, 1956 |
| Brooks, Garth | Yukon, Okla. | Feb. 7, 1962 |
| Brooks, Kix | Shreveport, La. | May 12, 1955 |
| Carpenter, Mary Chapin | Princeton, N.J. | Feb. 21, 1958 |
| Chesnutt, Mark | Beaumont, Texas | Sept. 6, 1963 |
| Cline, Patsy | Winchester, Va. | Sept. 8, 1932 |
| Cyrus, Billy Ray | Flatwoods, Ky. | Aug. 25, 1961 |
| Dean, Billy | Quincy, Fla. | April 2, 1962 |
| Diffie, Joe | Duncan, Okla. | Dec. 28, 1958 |
| Dunn, Ronnie | Coleman, Texas | June 1, 1953 |
| Gill, Vince | Norman, Okla. | April 12, 1957 |
| Hill, Faith | Star, Miss. | Sept. 21, 1967 |
| Jackson, Alan | Newnan, Ga. | Oct. 17, 1958 |
| Jones, George | Saratoga, Texas | Sept. 12, 1931 |
| Keith, Toby | Moore, Okla. | July 8, 1961 |
| Ketchum, Hal | Greenwich, N.Y. | April 9, 1953 |
| Lawrence, Tracy | Atlanta, Texas | Jan. 27, 1968 |
| Loveless, Patty | Belcher Holler, Ky. | Jan. 4, 1957 |
| Lynn, Loretta | Butcher Holler, Ky. | April 14, 1935 |
| Malo, Raul | Miami, Fla. | Aug. 7, 1965 |
| McCoy, Neal | Longview, Texas | July 30, 1958 |
| McEntire, Reba | Chockie, Okla. | March 28, 1955 |
| McGraw, Tim | Delhi, La. | May 1, 1967 |
| Montgomery, John Michael | Nicholasville, Ky. | Jan. 20,1965 |
| Morgan, Lorrie | Nashville, Tenn. | June 27, 1959 |
| Parton, Dolly | Locust Ridge, Tenn. | Jan. 19, 1946 |
| Presley, Elvis Aaron | Tupelo, Miss. | Jan. 8, 1935 |
| Roe, Marty | Lebanon, Ohio | Dec. 28, 1960 |
| Shirley, Danny | Chattanooga, Tenn. | Aug. 12, 1956 |
| Stone, Doug | Atlanta, Ga. | June 19, 1956 |
| Strait, George | Pearsall, Texas | May 18, 1952 |
| Stuart, Marty | Philadelphia, Miss. | Sept. 30, 1958 |
| Tillis, Pam | Nashville, Tenn. | July 24, 1957 |
| Tippin, Aaron | Pensacola, Fla. | July 3, 1958 |
| Travis, Randy | Marshville, N.C. | May 4, 1959 |
| Tucker, Tanya | Seminole, Texas | Oct. 10, 1958 |
| Twitty, Conway | Friar’s Point, Miss. | Sept. 1, 1933 |
| Walker, Clay | Beaumont, Texas | Aug. 19, 1969 |
| Williams, Hank Jr. | Shreveport, La. | May 26, 1949 |
| Wynonna | Ashland, Ky. | May 30, 1964 |
| Yearwood, Trisha | Monticello, Ga. | Sept. 19, 1964 |
| Yoakam, Dwight | Pike Floyd Holler, Ky. | Oct. 23, 1956 |
