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    • Mar 30, 1992
    Time magazine puts Garth Brooks on the cover, calling him a "jumping-jack-flash performer who can bring 40-year-olds to tears with existential hymns about accepting life's compromises" on the pages inside. Presumably a good thing
    Jun 10, 1992
    The Associated Press posts a story in which Travis Tritt criticizes Billy Ray Cyrus' first hit: "I don't think 'Achy Breaky Heart' makes much of a statement." Tritt repeats the charge on Nashville's WSIX Radio, creating controversy during Fan Fair
    Jun 13, 1992
    Billy Ray Cyrus and Travis Tritt play Alabama's June Jam XI in Fort Payne, Alabama. Referring to controversy generated by Tritt in an Associated Press story three days earlier, Cyrus tells the crowd: "I don't care what anybody else says. From the bottom of my 'Achy Breaky Heart,' I love you all"
    Jun 16, 1992
    In an interview published by The Advocate, k.d. lang acknowledges publicly that she is a lesbian: "I think everyone knows. The people who like me, like me for my music. And that's the way I want to keep it"
    Jul 14, 1992
    Olivia Newton-John reveals she is battling breast cancer, saying she is coming forward publicly to "save inquiring minds 95 cents"
    Jul 27, 1992
    Billy Ray Cyrus tells The Tennessean why he low-keyed criticism from Travis Tritt in June: "My daddy told me a long time ago that if you stomp on shit, it will only smell worse. So I took one look at that pile and just walked around it"
    Sep 5, 1992
    Garth Brooks mulls retirement from the music business in a front-page story in Billboard, telling the magazine, "I can walk away from it"
    Sep 11, 1992
    Johnny Cash pens a note to Trisha Yearwood, thanking her for mentioning him in an interview and telling her he thinks she has "what it takes to make it big"
    Oct 5, 1992
    Newsweek tabs Nashville producer Tony Brown among the 100 "cultural elite," proclaiming him "the ears of Nashville." The producer for Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and George Strait, Brown is listed along with Woody Allen, Madonna and Bill Cosby
    Oct 17, 1992
    Chet Atkins performs at the dedication of an outhouse at a Gravel Switch, Kentucky, store that previously had no toilet. "I think it's something that's needed," Atkins quips, "and it's certainly an improvement over what they had"



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