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    • May 20, 1983
    Merle Haggard and two members of The Strangers, Jimmy Belkin and Don Markham, are arrested for drinking on stage at the Asheville Civic Center in North Carolina. The venue has no liquor license
    Aug 5, 1983
    David Crosby, formerly of The Byrds, receives a five-year prison sentence from a Dallas judge for drug charges filed after a 1982 arrest. Crosby is allowed out on bond while the decision is appealed
    Nov 18, 1983
    Faron Young is pulled over in a 1976 Mercury station wagon and arrested in Austin, Texas, for driving while intoxicated
    Nov 29, 1983
    Shelly West and Allen Frizzell file for divorce in Williamson County, Tennessee, each charging their spouse with drug abuse and asking for sole custody of their daughter, Tess Marie Frizzell
    Jan 7, 1985
    David Crosby, whose former band The Byrds helped define country-rock, fails to enter a drug rehabilitation facility and has his bond revoked in court
    Feb 24, 1985
    David Crosby skips out of Fair Oaks Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, where he had agreed to undergo court-appointed treatment for cocaine addiction. He's arrested within days in New York City
    Oct 23, 1985
    David Crosby, formerly of The Byrds, is arrested in Mill Valley, California, after crashing into a fence. He's charged with hit and run, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia
    Jan 29, 1986
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Allen Collins has an alcohol-related car accident in Jacksonville, Florida, killing his girlfriend and paralyzing him below the neck. He pleads no contest to manslaughter charges
    Sep 4, 1986
    "Midnight Rider" songwriter Gregg Allman is arrested in Florida on drunk-driving charges, just months after a five-year suspension of his license had ended
    Jan 8, 1987
    Tanya Tucker kisses boyfriend Jerry West on the cheek in a Nashville courtroom shortly before he's sentenced to prison on cocaine charges



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