question: What is the birthdate of this American country music and rockailly singer and musician, best known for a song winning a 1960 Grammy who was produced by Don Law?
answer: April 30, 1925
context: Title: Blue (Bill Mack song)
  Passage: "Blue" is a song released in 1958 by Bill Mack, an American songwriter-country artist and country radio disc jockey.  It has since been covered by several artists, in particular by country singer LeAnn Rimes, whose 1996 version became a hit.  The song won Mack the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Song, a 1996 Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Music Association Awards nomination for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Radio Music Awards nomination for Song of the Year, and is included on the CMT list of the top 100 country songs of all time.  Rimes' rendition won the 1996 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
  Title: The Trust (music production duo)
  Passage: The Trust is composed of multi-platinum record producers, sound engineers and multi-instrumentalists Tommy Hubbard and Rich Zahniser.  The duo currently operates out of their private recording facility in Southern California, primarily working with rock, pop and country acts with an emphasis on live instrumentation recordings.  Hubbard and Zahniser have individually and collectively worked with several mainstream and popular indie artists including the Latin Grammy award winning group The Gipsy Kings, multi-platinum selling French pop singer Maude, 11x Billboard #1, Grammy Award winning blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa, American country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame funk musician Bootsy Collins(Parliament-Funkadelic, James Brown), 11x South African Music Award winner and judge on The Voice South Africa Lira, Company of Thieves front woman Genevieve, Smash Mouth, Rufio and the underground, punk rock Supergroups Rx Bandits and The Sound Of Animals Fighting.  The duo co-wrote and produced Maude's 2014, "Billboard" #3 album titled "#HoldUp", which spawned three successful singles that were co-written/produced by the The Trust including her debut #1 song "Love Is What You Make Of It".  Soon after the success of the singles, Maude was nominated for two NRJ Music Awards in France.
  Title: Don Law
  Passage: Donald Firth "Don" Law (February 24, 1902 – December 20, 1982) was an English-born American record producer and music business executive.  He produced Robert Johnson's only recordings, and as head of Columbia Records' country music division later worked with many leading country musicians including Bob Wills, Carl Smith, Flatt and Scruggs, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash.
  Title: Vicki Vann
  Passage: Victoria "Vicki" Vann (born Victoria Araceli Denise Vann Turnbough, July 14, 1980) is an American country music artist, model and actress.  Her father was born in Mississippi and was one of the original founding members of the Grammy Award Winning Gospel Group, Mighty Clouds of Joy.  Her mother, whose family origin is of Native American and German descent worked as a print model for print ads as well as television.  Vicki Vann is often referred to as the Cinderella of country music and was chosen to appear as a featured artist in a Country Music Television documentary called "Waiting in the Wings."  The documentary focuses on the ongoing struggles of the African American music artists in the country music industry.
  Title: American Country Awards
  Passage: The American Country Awards (ACA) is an annual country music awards show, entirely voted on by fans online.  Created in 2010 by the Fox Network, the awards honor country music artists for singles, albums, music videos and touring categories.  In 2012, "Song of the Year" was added with the nominations coming from the Nashville Songwriters International Association.  In addition to the CMA Awards, the ACM Awards and the CMT Music Awards, it is the fourth major-awards show completely dedicated to the country music industry.  The first two ceremonies took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 6, 2010 and December 5, 2011.  The 2012 ceremony took place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, on December 10.  Luke Bryan won nine awards, including artist and album of the year, while Miranda Lambert won three.  Carrie Underwood won female artist of the year and Lauren Alaina won new artist of the year.  The show was executive produced by Bob Bain, produced by Paul Flattery, Tisha Fein, Kelly Brock and Fletcher Foster and directed by Michael Dempsey.  The Fox Network cancelled the American Country Awards in 2014 and replaced it with the American Country Countdown Awards from dick clark productions.  The ratings for ACCA dropped dramatically compared to the 2013 American Country Awards.  According to TV By The Numbers (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com) 18-49 Ratings/Share dropped from 1.4/4 to 0.9/3 and viewership dropped from 5.14 million to 3.39 million.
  Title: Brad Hawkins
  Passage: Brad Hawkins (born January 13, 1976) is an American actor, country singer, and martial artist, best known for playing Ryan Steele in Saban's action adventure science fantasy series "VR Troopers" (1994–1996, and with 92 total episode appearances) and for his role in the 2014 film "Boyhood".  He also provided the (uncredited) voice of Trey of Triforia, the Gold Ranger in "Power Rangers Zeo".  In 1999, he starred as Tyler Hart in the CBS miniseries "", filmed in Charlotte and Mooresville, NC.  Before becoming an actor, he attended and graduated from Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas.  He was a country music singer for 3 years in the "country music capital", Nashville, Tennessee.  His country song "We Lose" became a No. 1 video hit on Country Music Television and Great American Country country music television channels.  He starred in the slasher film "Shredder" in 2003.  His most recent acting role was as a motion capture actor for id Software's "Doom 4".  He also works as a voice actor, often with Funimation, including roles in "D.Gray-man" and "".
  Title: Johnny Horton
  Passage: John LaGale "Johnny" Horton (April 30, 1925 – 5 November, 1960), was an American country music and rockabilly singer and musician, best known for his saga ballads beginning with the song "The Battle of New Orleans", which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.  The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 ranked No. 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America's "Songs of the Century".  His first number 1 country song was in 1959, "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)".
  Title: Jack Greene
  Passage: Jack Henry Greene (January 7, 1930 – March 14, 2013) was an American country musician.  Nicknamed the "Jolly Greene Giant" due to his height and deep voice, Greene was a long time member of the Grand Ole Opry.  A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Greene is best known for his 1966 hit, "There Goes My Everything".  The song dominated the Country music charts for nearly two months in 1967 and earned Greene "Male Vocalist of the Year", "Single of the Year", "Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year" honors from the Country Music Association.  Greene had a total of five  1 country hits and three others that reached the top ten. " Billboard" magazine named Greene one of the Top 100 "Most Played Artists".
  Title: The Judds
  Passage: The Judds were an American country music duo composed of Naomi Judd (born 1946) and her daughter Wynonna Judd (born in 1964).  The duet signed to RCA Records in 1983 and released six studio albums between then and 1991.  The Judds were one of the most successful acts in country music history, winning five Grammy Awards for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and eight Country Music Association awards.  They also had 25 singles on the country music charts between 1983 and 2000, 14 of which went to number one and six more of which made top ten on the same chart.  In 1985, the duo appeared on the PBS music program "Austin City Limits" during Season 10.  They also appeared on the PBS children's show "Square One TV" many times.
  Title: Troubadour (George Strait album)
  Passage: Troubadour is the twenty-fifth studio album by American country music singer George Strait.  It was released on April 1, 2008 (see 2008 in country music) on MCA Nashville Records.  The album comprises twelve tracks, including two duets.  The lead-off single, "I Saw God Today", was the highest-debuting single of Strait's career, and his forty-third Number One on the "Billboard" country charts.  The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA.  At the 51st Grammy Awards, "Troubadour" earned the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, the first Grammy win of Strait's career.  The album was intended to include the song "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven", but after Strait decided not to include it on the album, it was later recorded by Kenny Chesney, and was released as the first single from his album "Lucky Old Sun".
citations: Don Law Johnny Horton