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    • May 12, 1974
    A $2-million psychiatric facility is dedicated as the Johnny Cash Hospital in Decatur, Alabama. As a bronze plaque is unveiled at the ceremony, Cash says, "I feel higher than I ever did on dope"
    May 18, 1974
    Roy Acuff calls the treatment of president Richard Nixon a "disgrace," and vows to make sure any Tennessee congressman who votes for impeachment without "concrete evidence" loses in an election bid
    Nov 12, 1974
    Minnie Pearl defends the artists who created ACE during a lecture at a Nashville university: "This year's female vocalist winner, Olivia Newton-John, said she was coming to Nashville to meet Hank Williams. She didn't even know that he was dead"
    Nov 19, 1974
    The National Enquirer puts The King on the front page: "Elvis At 40--Paunchy, Depressed And Living In Fear"
    Feb 8, 1975
    Loretta Lynn laughingly tells The Tennessean she recorded her controversial single "The Pill" for Tanya Tucker: "There she is just 16 years old and singing, 'Would you lie with me in a field of stone.' She needs to know about the pill!"
    Feb 24, 1975
    "Hottest New Pipes In Pop": Olivia Newton-John appears on the cover of People magazine for the first time. Of the controversy surrounding her place in country she says, "I wasn't out to do anybody out of an award. I didn't put myself up for it"
    Mar 21, 1975
    Ray Stevens files suit against neighbor Webb Pierce to prohibit Pierce from building a parking ramp for tour buses in his driveway. Says Pierce: "That's the price you have to pay for living across from a star"
    Aug 12, 1975
    A story in The National Enquirer quotes Tom T. Hall as saying that country music "stinks." Hall says he never made the statement and is considering a lawsuit
    Sep 8, 1975
    "Midnight Rider" songwriter Gregg Allman appears with his wife, Cher, on the cover of People magazine. "I haven't sung a lot of happy songs," he says. "The memory of pain is always there"
    Sep 14, 1975
    The Newport News Press quotes Ernest Tubb, who takes two of his fellow country performers to task: "What I don't like is the way people like Ray Price and Eddy Arnold have deserted country fans to try to appeal to the pop fans"



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