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    • May 17, 1983
    The Statler Brothers claim four nominations, and Alabama earns three, for the Music City News awards as finalists are announced in Nashville
    May 18, 1983
    Mac Davis hosts the CBS-TV special "Country Comes Home." Others populating the broadcast include The Oak Ridge Boys, The Bellamy Brothers, The Sons Of The Pioneers, Alabama, Charley Pride, Glen Campbell, Roy Rogers and Ricky Skaggs
    May 19, 1983
    MCA releases George Strait's "A Fire I Can't Put Out"
    May 20, 1983
    Johnny Cash begins four days in traction in a Nashville hospital to relieve two compressed vertebrae. He attributes the condition to 27 years of touring
    May 20, 1983
    Merle Haggard and two members of The Strangers, Jimmy Belkin and Don Markham, are arrested for drinking on stage at the Asheville Civic Center in North Carolina. The venue has no liquor license
    May 20, 1983
    Crystal Gayle appears on "The SCTV Network"
    May 21, 1983
    John Conlee's "Common Man" drives to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    May 23, 1983
    Songwriter Churchill Kohlman dies of a heart attack in Pittsburgh. He wrote the pop classic "Cry," a 1970s country hit for Lynn Anderson and an '80s hit for Crystal Gayle
    May 23, 1983
    Vern Gosdin's brother, Rex Gosdin, dies of a heart attack in Jonesboro, Georgia. He co-wrote Leon Everette's "Just Give Me What You Think Is Fair"
    May 25, 1983
    Warner Bros. releases John Anderson's "Goin' Down Hill"
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