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Jan 28, 1996
Anita Cochran breaks her finger at Radnor Lake in Nashville, providing a physical hurdle as the singer and guitarist prepares to record her debut album
Jan 29, 1996
Fiddler Tommy Ewing Wair dies when an F-14 fighter plane crashes into a Nashville home where he was visiting. He worked as a sideman for his brother-in-law, Stonewall Jackson, from 1960-1965
Feb 16, 1996
A Knoxville franchise in the Budget Inn of America hotel chain burns. The complex had once been known as the Family Inn, and was referenced in "Third Rate Romance," a hit for both The Amazing Rhythm Aces and Sammy Kershaw
Feb 17, 1996
Gus Hardin dies in a head-on collision near Lake Hudson, Oklahoma. The rowdy vocalist earned Top 10 releases in the mid-1980s with "After The Last Goodbye" and a duet with Earl Thomas Conley, "All Tangled Up In Love"
Mar 31, 1996
Con Hunley is stopped for running a red light in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and is charged with DUI. He is later convicted for the offense
Apr 6, 1996
Delbert McClinton's bus flips when it collides with a street sweeper in Grand Prairie, Texas. McClinton and his band members are not seriously hurt, though the bus driver sustains multiple fractures
May 10, 1996
Chely Wright's tour bus has a head-on collision in Harrison, Arkansas, with a pickup driving on the wrong side of road. The truck driver is killed instantly, although Wright and her band, the Country Gentlemen, escape with minor injuries
May 11, 1996
One day after a bus accident in Arkansas, Chely Wright has another in Jackson, Tennessee, when a semi hits an abandoned car, sending it into the side of the bus. No one is hurt
May 11, 1996
A ValuJet flight crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing more than 100 people, including country singer/songwriter Walter Hyatt, a musical compadre of David Ball and Lyle Lovett
May 12, 1996
A former mental patient is arrested for aggravated criminal trespassing when he appears in Barbara Mandrell's driveway in Whites Creek, Tennessee. He has reportedly stalked Mandrell for 15 years, and was previously arrested in 1987
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