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    • Aug 9, 1985
    RCA releases Alabama's "Can't Keep A Good Man Down"
    Aug 20, 1985
    Ricky Skaggs leads with six nominations for the Country Music Association awards. Alabama, George Strait and Lee Greenwood each get four nominations. Those four are finalists for the Entertainer of the Year title, along with Reba McEntire
    Sep 16, 1985
    RCA releases the album "Alabama Christmas"
    Sep 17, 1985
    A front page story in The New York Times proclaims that country music is "dead." The piece writes off Alabama and Hank Williams Jr. as "not really country"
    Sep 22, 1985
    Willie Nelson sponsors the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois, with Merle Haggard, John Cougar Mellencamp, Roger Miller, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Alabama, George Jones, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, B.B. King, Judy Rodman and Waylon Jennings, among others
    Nov 9, 1985
    Alabama's "Can't Keep A Good Man Down" rises to the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart
    Nov 15, 1985
    The album "Alabama Christmas" is certified gold and platinum by the RIAA
    Dec 18, 1985
    Alabama records "She And I." Dave Loggins fills in on harmonies for Jeff Cook, who's out of the country on vacation
    Dec 30, 1985
    RCA releases Alabama's "She And I"
    Jan 3, 1986
    Willie Nelson and Alabama are out front among country acts as finalists are announced in the American Music Awards, collecting four nominations each. Lee Greenwood and Hank Williams Jr. get tabbed three times each
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