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    • May 20, 1967
    While headed from Houston to southern Louisiana on tour, Ernest Tubb tells Jack Greene it's time he leaves the Troubadours to work on his solo career
    Jun 1, 1967
    The Kingston Trio calls it quits. Group members Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and John Stewart insist they remain friends but express frustration with their lot in life: "The public won't let us sing anything but 'Tom Dooley' and other standard folk tunes"
    Jul 10, 1967
    Kenny Rogers leaves The New Christy Minstrels
    May 10, 1968
    Country-rock's Buffalo Springfield announces its break-up, sending group members Jim Messina, Stephen Still and Neil Young to other ventures
    Jul 7, 1968
    Cal Smith ends a five-year run as a member of Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours
    Jul 29, 1968
    Gram Parsons quits The Byrds rather than join the band in apartheid-torn South Africa. He goes on to form The Flying Burrito Brothers, a pioneering band in the development of country-rock
    Aug 9, 1968
    Maxene Andrews announces she will become dean of women at Tahoe Paradise College, effectively dissolving The Andrews Sisters. The group had country hits in the 1940s by collaborating with Bing Crosby and Ernest Tubb
    Oct 12, 1968
    John Sebastian leaves The Lovin' Spoonful for a solo career. Two years earlier, the pop band earned a hit with "Nashville Cats," deemed one of the 500 all-time greatest country singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Feb 22, 1969
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs make their final public appearance on the Grand Ole Opry before a nasty split
    Mar 11, 1969
    After 25 years as a bluegrass duo, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs split up



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