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Oct 18, 1974
Al Green's ex-girlfriend, Mary Woodson, pours boiling grits on the singer in his Memphis home, then kills herself, leaving Green with second-degree burns on his torso. Twenty years later, he is nominated for a Country Music Association award
Jun 10, 1975
Darrell Edwards, who co-wrote "Why Baby Why" with George Jones, commits suicide, shooting himself in the head with a shotgun
Oct 1, 1975
Drummer Al Jackson Jr. is shot five times and killed by burglars at his Memphis home. A member of Booker T. & The MG's, he played on Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay," hailed among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Feb 15, 1976
Jerry Lee Lewis' bass player, Tarp Tarrant, robs a 7-11 convenience store at gun point. For his $58 stunt, he gets 8-10 years
Jun 21, 1976
A thief breaks into The Osborne Brothers' limo while the band is on stage in St. Paul, Minnesota, and steals Sonny Osborne's wallet, including $4340 in cash. Osborne begins carrying a handgun as a result
Sep 29, 1976
Aiming at a bottle, Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shoots his bass player, Norman Owens, twice in the chest in the living room of Lewis' Memphis home
May 6, 1977
Elvis Presley is sedated after shooting out a bedroom window at Graceland Mansion, his Memphis home
May 26, 1977
Elvis Presley departs a private plane at the airport in Binghamton, New York, where it's illegal to carry firearms. A pair of loaded guns fall from his waistband in front of a police officer, who simply returns them without comment
Aug 2, 1977
No good deed goes unpunished: Merle Haggard's son, Marty Haggard, is hospitalized at Bakersfield Medical Center after he was shot and robbed by a hitchhiker he had offered a ride
Sep 15, 1978
George Jones fires a pistol at songwriter Earl "Peanutt" Montgomery in Florence, Alabama. He's charged with assault with intent to commit murder
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