This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1975.

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (May 2015)

• March 13 — The rocky marriage of George Jones and Tammy Wynette ends in divorce.
• July 17 — A Russian-language version of Conway Twitty's 1970 hit, "Hello Darlin'" is played and broadcast to a worldwide audience as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The song, which in Russian was called "Privet Radost," is a "gesture of goodwill" from the Apollo crew to the Soviet Union's Soyuz crew. Twitty worked with a language professor from the University of Oklahoma to record the phonetic Russian version of the song.^[1]
• August 8 — While mountain climbing at Ajax Mountain, Montana, Hank Williams, Jr. is involved in a catastrophic accident. He tumbles nearly 500 feet and is critically injured, suffering numerous facial and head injuries. His recovery takes nearly two years, during which time he undergoes a major cosmetic — and musical — overhaul.
• October — The defining moment in the recent debate over what defines country music – and each side's vision of the genre – comes at the Country Music Association awards. Charlie Rich, the 1974 CMA Entertainer of the Year, was selected to name the new Entertainer of the Year. When he opened the envelope, he took out his cigarette lighter, lighted the piece of paper with the winner's name on fire, and disgustedly announced the winner: "My good friend John Denver!" Denver, who was not present, was humbled at his award (but didn't know until later about Rich's actions).

• June 15 — Rachel Proctor, singer-songwriter best known for her 2004 hit "Me and Emily"
• August 11 — Chris Cummings, Canadian country singer of 1990s and 2000s
• September 13 — Joe Don Rooney, member of Rascal Flatts
• November 20 — Dierks Bentley, new traditionalist-styled singer of the 2000s
• November 30 — Mindy McCready, popular country singer from the late 1990s (died 2013)
• December 18 — Randy Houser, late-2000s singer

• February 4 — Louis Jordan, 66, jazz and rhythm & blues pioneer who became the first African-American performer to have a No. 1 hit on the Billboard country charts (1944's "Ration Blues") (heart attack).
• February 17 — A.C. "Eck" Robertson, 88, pioneering American fiddle player, widely considered the first fiddler and country musician to record commercially.
• May 13 — Bob Wills, 70, leader of the Texas Playboys (complications from a stroke).
• July 7 — George Morgan, 51, country crooner of the late 1940s and early 1950s, Grand Ole Opry favorite and father of Lorrie Morgan (heart attack).
• July 19 — Lefty Frizzell, 47, honky-tonk pioneer of the 1950s (stroke).
• November 3 — Audrey Williams, 52, mother of Hank Williams Jr. (and ex-wife of Hank Williams Sr.)

• Minnie Pearl (1912–1996)

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• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
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• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.