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    • 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
    Sep 29, 1986
    Steve Earle is arrested in the Norfolk, Virginia, airport, when security detects a .45 automatic in his luggage
    Oct 9, 1986
    Bill Anderson and his wife, Becky, are awarded $1.2 million by a Nashville jury for injuries she sustained in a 1984 accident. The other driver's damages are later reduced to $825,000
    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
    May 17, 1987
    An arsonist sets fire to Tom Petty's house in Los Angeles while his family eats breakfast, doing $800,000 worth of damage. Petty wrote Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You" and goes on to write Roy Orbison's "You Got It"
    Jul 3, 1987
    A 14-year-old Jimmy Wayne is in the backseat of an Oldsmobile Delta 88 when his stepdad shoots someone--just one episode in a tragic childhood that leads him to become a homeless teenager
    Dec 18, 1987
    Songwriter Chuck Berry is charged with assault after striking a woman at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel. Two of the women's teeth were loosened, and she required five stitches. He pleads guilty 11 months later to a lesser charge of harassment
    Dec 31, 1987
    While fighting with a crew member in a Dallas hotel, Steve Earle is accosted by a policeman, who chokes him with his night stick. Earle is jailed for aggravated assault, and his voice is forever changed by the incident
    May 1, 1988
    The original painting for the "Highwayman" album cover--depicting Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson--is stolen from an art exhibit at the Nashville Convention Center
    Jun 17, 1988
    Lawrence Irving Taylor is arrested at the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, for impersonating Jack Greene while trying to buy a $700,000 racehorse



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