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    • Apr 26, 1954
    Ernest Tubb is arrested for drunk driving when his car hits a telephone pole on North First Street in Nashville
    Nov 17, 1955
    Ray Charles is busted backstage in Philadelphia for the use of narcotics. The R&B singer later makes waves in country with his 1962 album "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" and his 1985 duet with Willie Nelson, "Seven Spanish Angels"
    Jan 4, 1956
    Merle Travis is arrested at his home, at 12406 Chandler Boulevard in Los Angeles, after pistol-whipping his wife during a drunken rage
    Dec 31, 1957
    Ernest Tubb is fined $250 when he hits a tree, driving drunk, on Lynwood Terrace in Nashville with his 1957 Cadillac
    May 13, 1960
    Freddy Fender is arrested for possession of marijuana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He spends the next three years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola
    Jul 8, 1961
    Ray Charles is arrested in Chicago during a heroin bust. The following year, he connects country and R&B through the landmark album "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
    Nov 14, 1961
    Ray Charles is arrested in Indianapolis on drug charges, after buying marijuana and heroin two days earlier. Within months, Charles will record the album "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
    Jan 9, 1962
    Charges against Ray Charles for heroin possession are dropped when an Indianapolis judge rules police did not have a proper search warrant. The next month, Charles records "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
    Oct 13, 1962
    Don Everly collapses on stage at the outset of an English tour. He is hospitalized at Charing Cross Hospital in London for a drug overdose, though the hospital calls it food poisoning. He tries a second overdose the same day in his hotel room
    Nov 22, 1963
    George Jones' father is committed to the alcoholic ward of a mental hospital



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