1929 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1929.

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Top hits of the year

January 17 – Grady Martin, session guitarist and member of Nashville's "A Team" (died 2001)
May 1 – Sonny James, singer of the 1950s through early 1980s who once had 16 consecutive No. 1 songs—many of them covers of pop hits—on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart; "The Southern Gentleman."
June 23 – June Carter Cash, member of the legendary Carter Family and wife of Johnny Cash (died 2003)
August 12 – Buck Owens, key innovator of the "Bakersfield Sound," which resulted in immense popularity from the 1960s onward; co-host of Hee Haw from 1969-1986. (died 2006)