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    • Oct 2, 2017
    Rocker Tom Petty dies of cardiac arrest at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles following an accidental overdose of painkillers for multiple ailments, including a broken hip. The author of Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You" and Roy Orbison's "You Got It," he sang on Hank Williams Jr.'s remake of "Mind Your Own Business"
    Oct 10, 2017
    Ross Copperman, Nicolle Galyon and Shane McAnally write a Keith Urban hit, "Female," in Nashville
    Oct 16, 2017
    Garth Brooks makes a surprise appearance at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe to perform with some of the writers behind his biggest hits: Pat Alger, Victoria Shaw, Kent Blazy and Tony Arata. The night's music includes "If Tomorrow Never Comes," "The River," "The Thunder Rolls" and "The Dance"
    Oct 20, 2017
    "The Dance" songwriter Tony Arata joins fellow writers Pat Alger, Bob Regan and Angela Kaset in a Heal The Music Day benefit at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe for the non-profit Music Health Alliance. A second show features Amy Grant, Matraca Berg, Marcus Hummon and Barry Dean
    Oct 22, 2017
    Alan Jackson, the late Jerry Reed and songwriter Don Schlitz, the author of "The Gambler," are inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville
    Oct 23, 2017
    The late Vern Gosdin enters the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Music City Center. Also inducted are "Friends In Low Places" author Dewayne Blackwell, "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me" writer Walt Aldridge, "Chattahoochee" composer Jim McBride and "Live Like You Were Dying" writer Tim Nichols
    Oct 23, 2017
    "Blue Ain't Your Color," penned by Steven Lee Olsen, Hillary Lindsey and Clint Lagerberg, wins the NSAI Song of the Year award at the Music City Center in Nashville. Luke Bryan receives Songwriter/Artist, and Ashley Gorley repeats as Songwriter of the Year
    Oct 24, 2017
    Fats Domino dies in New Orleans. The R&B singer/songwriter was best known for "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That A Shame." His recording "Walking To New Orleans" is ranked among country's 500 greatest singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Oct 28, 2017
    Days after he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, "The Gambler" songwriter Don Schlitz makes his Grand Ole Opry debut
    Dec 1, 2017
    Backbeat Books publishes "I Wrote That One Too...: A Life In Songwriting From Willie To Whitney," an autobiography of "Every Which Way But Loose" composer Steve Dorff, co-written with Colette Freedman



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