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    • May 11, 1996
    Steve Wariner joins the Grand Ole Opry. He sings "A Woman Loves," duets with Bill Anderson on "The Tips Of My Fingers" and joins Chet Atkins on "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?"
    May 11, 1996
    A ValuJet flight crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing more than 100 people, including country singer/songwriter Walter Hyatt, a musical compadre of David Ball and Lyle Lovett
    May 12, 1996
    A former mental patient is arrested for aggravated criminal trespassing when he appears in Barbara Mandrell's driveway in Whites Creek, Tennessee. He has reportedly stalked Mandrell for 15 years, and was previously arrested in 1987
    May 12, 1996
    Dale Evans suffers a stroke in California on Mother's Day
    May 13, 1996
    The Tennessean reports Lorrie Morgan's relationship with senator Fred Thompson has come to an end
    May 14, 1996
    "Fresh Horses" becomes Garth Brooks' fifth RIAA-certified quadruple-platinum album
    May 14, 1996
    Doug Supernaw joins The Beach Boys to remake "Long Tall Texan" at Nashville's Masterfonics for a country album by Brian Wilson and company. Ricky Van Shelton also joins them to do "Fun, Fun, Fun"
    May 15, 1996
    T. Graham Brown pulls into Nashville's Emerald Sound to remake "Help Me Rhonda" with The Beach Boys for their country album
    May 16, 1996
    The Academy of Country Music's K-Tel album "The 101 Greatest Country Hits" is certified gold by the RIAA. The 10-CD set features 87 hitmakers from the 1940s through the '80s, though many of the cuts are not the original versions
    May 17, 1996
    Billy "Crash" Craddock receives a surprise 25th anniversary party at the Holiday Inn Four Seasons Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina. He had his first hit in 1971
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