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Country music historical database launched: RolandNote.com

Tom Roland, longtime music writer, launched the website that gives fans a comprehensive resource of country music history.

RolandNotes.com catalogs more than 36,000 events from country music history with detailed background credits for more than 8,500 hits and significant tracks. Users can search by artists, songs, place or time and retrieve a plethora of information and details about country music's history.

Originally the idea was to publish a book that would be a date-by-date account of country music, but as the project grew and web technology became more sophisticated, the author saw the `net as a better way to deliver the information. Country music fans should check it out now because ...

"Some information on the site will be available only via subscription beginning July 9, 2007. You'll likely discover you want to maintain subscriber access to this mountain of material once the trial period ends."

Tom Roland has worked for many industry media outlets like the Westwood One Radio Network, The Hollywood Reporter, The Orange County Register, and CMT.com.