This Day In Music History - August 6th

In 2011, Marshall Grant, who played bass for Johnny Cash in the Tennessee Two from 1954 to 1980, died. He was 83. After leaving Johnny's band, Grant managed The Statler Brothers until they retired in 2002. He later wrote an autobiography titled >em>I Was There When It Happened.

In 1997, Garth Brooks played to an estimated 1 million people at Central Park. It was the largest crowd to assemble for a concert in the history of the park and that wasn't counting the additional 14.6 million who watched the show live on HBO.

In 1984, American soul singer Esther Phillips died at the age of 48 from liver and kidney failure in Carson, California.

In 1974, Peter Wolf from The J Geils Band married actress Faye Dunaway in Beverly Hills. The two divorced five years later.

In 1954, Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto got married in San Antonio, Texas at St. Ann's Catholic Church. The two met as teens (he was 19 and she was 17) and started dating. Three weeks later, Cash, who was in the Air Force, was sent to Germany. Over the next three years, the two wrote letters to each other daily and by the time Johnny came back home, they had written over 10,000 pages to each other. They were married a little over a month after he was discharged from the military.

The following year, their daughter Rosanne was born. Over the next six years, three other daughters were born (Kathleen, Cindy and Tara). When Tara was five, Vivian filed for divorce. It was final in 1967.

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Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks