Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2000 Tracy Lawrence netted his second double-platinum album, for "Time Marches On"?

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Here are 5 little known facts about Tracy Lawrence.

  • He born in Atlanta, Texas and raised in Foreman, Arkansas.
  • He was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity while he attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia.
  • Lawrence took jobs as an ironworker and in phone sales while he tried to break into the Nashville music scene.
  • He survived being shot four times. One of the bullets remains lodged in his pelvis.
  • He participates in a golf tournament every year to raise funds for cystic fibrosis research.

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