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    • Apr 14, 1986
    Dolly Parton tells People magazine: "It's a good thing that I was born a woman, or I'd have been a drag queen." The cover is devoted to Lionel Richie
    Dec 18, 1986
    Dwight Yoakam tells Rolling Stone much of what's called country exceeds the genre's limits, "which is perfectly acceptable. Just don't call it country, because we confuse the issue for that kid who's never heard real country music. That pisses me off"
    Feb 3, 1987
    Willie Nelson, dressed in black tie, receives an award from the Country Music Foundation for his efforts on Farm Aid. He's told: "We didn't ask you to raise money, we didn't ask you to buy an ad, and we didn't ask you to wear that tux"
    May 7, 1987
    Crystal Gayle tells USA Today: "If I had as many romantic breakups as the characters in my songs do, I'd be a regular on 'People's Court'"
    Aug 3, 1987
    Ten years after his death, Elvis Presley makes the cover of Newsweek magazine. "In some ways," says the story, "it's as if he never left"
    Oct 17, 1987
    Dolly Parton makes the cover of TV Guide, celebrating her new variety show, "Dolly!": "I've never felt so right about anything. I'm really gonna enjoy this show"
    Jul 5, 1988
    Rosanne Cash makes the cover of New York's alternative weekly, The Village Voice, where she admits the depths of her former addiction: "I was buying drugs and flushing them down the toilet, and then buying them again the next day"
    Nov 2, 1988
    Unhappy he couldn't accept his Musician of the Year award on the telecast of the Country Music Association awards, Chet Atkins laments that "they forgot what the M in CMA stands for"
    Nov 19, 1988
    A court denies Johnny Lee's bid to open a nightclub in Guntersville, Alabama, a dry county. The judge says "Lemonade might not have mixed well with Hank Williams"
    May 8, 1989
    Hank Williams Jr. claims he doesn't remember the Baton Rouge incident two nights before, when he gave an abbreviated, profanity-laced concert, and that someone must have spiked his drink



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