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    • Dec 25, 1964
    Future Diamond Rio drummer Brian Prout receives his first drum set for Christmas from older sister Flora Prout in Troy, New York
    Jul 25, 1965
    Folk singer/songwriter Bob Dylan angers the crowd when he plays his first electric concert at the Newport Folk Festival. For the last part of the show, he borrows a guitar from Johnny Cash. Also watching backstage: Bill Monroe
    Oct 22, 1965
    Fire breaks out in Tex Ritter's room at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Nashville. Ritter loses his guitar, several hunting rifles and new cowboy outfits made in England and Hong Kong
    Dec 25, 1967
    Brent Rowan receives his first electric guitar for Christmas. He becomes one of Nashville's most in-demand players 13 years later, appearing on hits by Brooks & Dunn, Conway Twitty, George Strait, Mark Chesnutt and Shania Twain, among others
    Dec 25, 1967
    Vince Gill receives a Gibson electric guitar for Christmas. He continues to use the instrument even after becoming a star more than 20 years later
    Dec 25, 1968
    John Jorgenson receives his first guitar for Christmas. Within two decades, he earns high marks for his work on the instrument in The Desert Rose Band
    Dec 23, 1970
    Willie Nelson's home in Ridgetop, Tennessee, burns while he's in Nashville at a Christmas party. When Nelson sees the house in flames, he runs in to rescue his guitar, Trigger, and a bag of marijuana stashed inside the case
    May 17, 1971
    Elvis Presley accidentally breaks session player Chip Young's guitar doing karate moves during a studio date in Nashville
    Dec 25, 1972
    Trace Adkins receives a guitar from his father for Christmas in Louisiana
    Dec 13, 1973
    George Morgan presents the guitar he played while recording "Candy Kisses" to the Country Music Hall of Fame



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