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Jan 18, 1998

Martina McBride is featured with a blacked-out tooth and a hockey stick in a prominent ad in Nashville's morning paper, The Tennessean. The ad is part of a campaign to sell tickets for the Nashville Predators' inaugural NHL season

Jan 18, 1998

Lorrie Morgan is featured in an ad in The Tennessean with two teeth blacked out, while holding a hockey stick. It's part of a push to sell season tickets to the Nashville Predators' inaugural NHL season

Jan 22, 1998

Bobby Osborne, of The Osborne Brothers, has quadruple bypass heart surgery in Nashville. Just 15 days later, he's back performing on the Grand Ole Opry

Jan 22, 1998

David "Skull" Schulman is murdered at Skull's Rainbow Room, a Printers Alley club he owned. Skull had ties to Mel Tillis and Tanya Tucker, and made several appearances on "Hee Haw"

Jan 22, 1998

Bob Mulloy dies of cancer in Nashville. He established an influential music business program at Nashville's Belmont University. Graduates include Trisha Yearwood, Brad Paisley, Lee Ann Womack and Josh Turner

Jan 24, 1998

Justin Tubb dies in Nashville following aortic surgery. The son of Ernest Tubb had three hits as a recording artist, and wrote Hawkshaw Hawkins' "Lonesome 7-7203" and Highway 101's "Walkin', Talkin', Cryin', Barely Beatin' Broken Heart"

Jan 26, 1998

Got tickets? Vince Gill is featured in an ad in The Tennessean with his two front teeth blacked-out, hockey-style, as the Nashville Predators NHL team recruits ticket buyers for its first season

Jan 27, 1998

Trace and Rhonda Adkins welcome a baby girl, Mackenzie Lynn Adkins, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville

Jan 28, 1998

Buddy, a miniature collie that belongs to "What If I Said" singer Anita Cochran, disappears. The dog is never found

Jan 31, 1998

The Kinleys make their first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, performing "Just Between You And Me"

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