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Aug 30, 1968

Loretta Lynn records "Your Squaw Is On The Warpath" in an evening session at Bradley's Barn in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee

Aug 31, 1968

Jeannie C. Riley makes her Grand Ole Opry debut

Sep 1, 1968

Tom T. Hall records "Ballad Of Forty Dollars" at the Columbia Studios in Nashville

Sep 11, 1968

Tom T. Hall records "That's How I Got To Memphis" in Nashville at the Columbia Recording Studios. Bobby Bare gets a hit two years later with the same song

Sep 13, 1968

Jeannie C. Riley wins a $390,000 breach of contract lawsuit filed against her and Plantation Records owner Shelby Singleton in Nashville by Little Darlin' Records founder Aubrey Mayhew, who claimed she was signed to his label

Sep 14, 1968

Two of Roy Orbison's three sons--Tony and Roy Jr.--die when the family's house catches fire in Nashville

Sep 16, 1968

Roy Acuff is named the head of the Tennessee Citizens For Nixon-Agnew Committee, as Richard Nixon runs for president

Sep 17, 1968

Funeral services are held in Nashville for Roy Orbison's two sons, Dewayne and Tony Orbison, who died in a fire three days earlier. In attendance are Roy Acuff, Tex Ritter, Leroy Van Dyke and manager Wesley Rose

Sep 22, 1968

The Jordanaires sing "(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)" during Red Foley's funeral at the Madison Church of Christ in Tennessee. Others in attendance include Minnie Pearl, Porter Wagoner, Roy Acuff, Brenda Lee, Grandpa Jones, Webb Pierce and Pat Boone

Sep 27, 1968

Carl Perkins records "Restless" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. A 1991 version of the song wins a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration for Mark O'Connor, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner

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