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Sep 1, 1976
Music executive Lou Adler and an employee are kidnapped from his Los Angeles home. Their captors free them only after Adler agrees to pay $25,000 ransom. Adler co-wrote Joe Stampley's 1983 country hit "Poor Side Of Town"
Sep 5, 1976
"Sweet Home Alabama" co-writer Gary Rossington suffers multiple broken bones when the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, driving drunk, crashes into a telephone pole, a tree and a house in Jacksonville, Florida
Sep 27, 1976
A teenage Randy Travis, still going by the name Randy Traywick, is charged with larceny and with breaking and entering in North Carolina. He is pardoned for the offenses 23 years later
Sep 29, 1976
Aiming at a bottle, Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shoots his bass player, Norman Owens, twice in the chest in the living room of Lewis' Memphis home
Oct 2, 1976
Two members of Willie Nelson's road crew, James "Poodie" Locke and Steven Koepke, are arrested and charged with posession of marijuana at a motel room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Oct 31, 1976
"Hee Haw" comedian Junior Samples fractures his hip in a boating accident on Lake Lanier in Georgia
Nov 5, 1976
After drinking with piano player Tony Brown at T.G.I. Friday's in Nashville, Tanya Tucker has an accident on the way home. Her father/manager, Boe Tucker, fires Brown, who then lands a job with Elvis Presley
Nov 22, 1976
After overturning his $46,000 Rolls-Royce, Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested at a street corner near his Memphis home for reckless driving and driving without a license. Later in the day, he's jailed in Tunica, Mississippi, for driving while intoxicated
Nov 23, 1976
A drunk Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested in Memphis after he's spotted outside of Graceland Mansion, waving a pistol and demanding to see Elvis Presley
Dec 22, 1976
George Jones is arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Linda Welborn, in November. He's released after posting $300 bond
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