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    • Aug 13, 1984
    Bass player and comedian Bill Wesbrooks dies in Tucker, Georgia. Known as Cousin Wilbur, he appeared in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1940-1944, playing on such Monroe recordings as "Kentucky Waltz" and "Mule Skinner Blues"
    Aug 14, 1984
    Steve Goodman opens at the last minute for Linda Ronstadt at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, California. The performance turns out to be his last public appearance, coming just as Willie Nelson reaches the country charts with Goodman's "City Of New Orleans"
    Aug 15, 1984
    Billy Ray Cyrus' band loses almost all its instruments and equipment when a fire is set at Changes, a club in Ironton, Ohio, where they are scheduled to perform
    Aug 15, 1984
    Record producer Norman Petty dies in Lubbock, Texas. Buddy Holly's producer also directed "I'm Stickin' With You" by future Nashville producer Jimmy Bowen and "Sugar Shack" by The Fireballs, plus Billy Walker's "On My Mind Again." Petty also co-wrote "True Love Ways" and "Maybe Baby"
    Aug 16, 1984
    George Jones performs at Pee Wee's in Nashville, where he's joined for a series of duets by unannounced guest Connie Smith
    Aug 18, 1984
    Ronnie Milsap snares a #1 country single in Billboard with "Still Losing You"
    Aug 20, 1984
    Mercury releases The Statler Brothers' "Atlanta Blue"
    Aug 21, 1984
    Vince Gill records "Livin' The Way I Do." Thirteen years later, it appears on the soundtrack to "SwitchBack"
    Aug 21, 1984
    Hank Williams Jr.'s "Greatest Hits" is certified both gold and platinum by the RIAA
    Aug 21, 1984
    Clint Eastwood receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The actor had appeared earlier in the year on a single with T.G. Sheppard, "Make My Day," and also joined Merle Haggard on 1980's "Bar Room Buddies"
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