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    • May 20, 2008
    Jimmy Dean donates $1 million to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. It's the largest donation the college has ever received
    May 21, 2008
    Toby Keith ranks #1 on Forbes' list of country's top moneymakers, after making $48 million in the previous 12 months. Also in the Top 5: Rascal Flatts, $40 million; Tim McGraw, $23 million; Kenny Chesney, $22 million; and Brooks & Dunn, $20 million
    May 23, 2008
    Knoxville, Tennessee, observes Joe Nichols Day as the singer raises $6,000 with a benefit concert at Gibbs High School to upgrade the gymnasium
    Jun 14, 2008
    Garth Brooks sings "Mama Tried," "Unwound" and "She Thinks I Still Care" during a $5-million benefit for the Starkey Hearing Foundation at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minnesota. His audience includes Trisha Yearwood, Sam Moore and Paul Williams
    Jun 18, 2008
    Los Angeles' Westin Bonaventure Hotel sues "To Know Him Is To Love Him" songwriter Phil Spector for $110,000 for failing to pay for four luxury suites he reserved during the duration of his murder trial in 2007
    Jul 6, 2008
    The Los Angeles Times reports Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have bought a beachfront home in Malibu. The purchase price of the gated property is not disclosed, though the seller was asking for $4.95 million
    Jul 18, 2008
    Paul Simon sues a Japanese clock maker and its U.S. subsidiary for $1 million for selling timepieces that use his song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" without permission. The title was a Buck Owens country hit in 1971
    Jul 21, 2008
    "Picture" singer Kid Rock is fined $1,000 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service and six hours of anger management counseling in DeKalb County, Georgia, for an October 2007 fight at a Waffle House
    Aug 1, 2008
    The Eagles' Glenn Frey closes on a $7.75-million piece of property in Hana, Hawaii. The six-bedroom house sits on a five-acre parcel
    Aug 5, 2008
    Sony buys BMG's half of Sony BMG for $1.2 billion. The resulting Sony Music Entertainment combines the rosters of Columbia, RCA, Arista and BNA



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