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    • Apr 24, 1996
    Lonestar is honored as Top New Vocal Duet or Group during the 31st annual Academy Of Country Music awards, shown by NBC from Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre
    Oct 28, 1996
    Lonestar receives its first gold album from the RIAA, for its self-titled debut
    Jan 20, 1997
    Billy Ray Cyrus, Lonestar, Trisha Yearwood and Kim Richey are among the performers at Bill Clinton's inaugural celebration, which includes 14 different receptions. Vice president Al Gore and wife Tipper dance to "Tennessee Waltz"
    Jun 17, 1997
    BNA releases Lonestar's album "Crazy Nights"
    Aug 16, 1997
    Lonestar's "Come Cryin' To Me" arrives at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Aug 19, 1997
    Lonestar's Dean Sams and his wife, Kim, have their first child, Britney Deann Sams
    Nov 3, 1997
    Vince Gill hosts his eighth celebrity basketball game at Nashville's Belmont University, raising $75,000 for scholarships. Among the more than 30 participants: Asleep At The Wheel's Ray Benson, and Lonestar's Michael Britt, Dean Sams and Richie McDonald
    Jan 2, 1998
    Bass player John Rich and Lonestar decide to part company during a band meeting in Nashville. Rich will re-emerge in 2004 as a member of Big & Rich
    Jul 14, 1998
    Arista releases "Ultimate Country Party," featuring George Strait, Shania Twain, Tracy Byrd, Alan Jackson, The Tractors, Lee Roy Parnell, BR5-49, Ricochet, Pam Tillis, Vince Gill, Mark Chesnutt, Brooks & Dunn, Lorrie Morgan, Lonestar and others
    Sep 1, 1998
    Lonestar vocalist Richie McDonald and his wife, Lorie, have a daughter, Mollie Ann McDonald, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. The youngster inspires a line about a "blue-eyed blonde with her shoes on wrong" in "My Front Porch Looking In"
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