Mar 9, 2007

A Mountain Home, Arkansas, resident submits a 2006 income tax claim using the Social Security number of "Living In The Promiseland" songwriter David Lynn Jones. The move is part of an elaborate identity-theft scheme

Mar 10, 2007

Pop singer Eric Carmen is arrested for DUI in Gates Mills, Ohio. He wrote Louise Mandrell's 1985 country hit "Maybe My Baby"

Mar 22, 2007

Wynonna Judd's husband, Daniel Roach, is arrested at Shades Of Hope Rehabilitation Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas, and charged with three counts of sexually abusing a minor. Judd files for a divorce within a week

Mar 26, 2007

A 32-year-old Maryland man is arrested for stalking when Michelle Branch spots him in the audience at The Wreckers' show in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. A previous restraining order on the man, who had been following Branch since 2003, had expired

Mar 31, 2007

Billy Joe Shaver shoots a barroom patron in the face outside Papa Joe's Texas Saloon in Lorene. Shaver claims the man was drunk and pulled a knife on him; the victim disputes the story

Apr 1, 2007

Ricky Fissell appears at Martina McBride's doorstep, asking if the singer is home. After one more unannounced visit, McBride asks for a restraining order, accusing Fissell of stalking

Apr 3, 2007

Billy Joe Shaver turns himself over to police in Waco, Texas, three days after a barroom squabble in which he shot a man in the face. Shaver is released only after posting $50,000 bail

Apr 24, 2007

Willie Nelson and his road manager, David Anderson, plead guilty to marijuana possession in St. Martinville, Louisiana. They receive fines of $1,024 apiece and are given six months probation

Apr 25, 2007

The murder trial of blonde-wigged Phil Spector begins with opening statements in a Los Angeles court. Prosecutors accuse the writer of "To Know Him Is To Love Him" of killing actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra mansion four years prior

Apr 26, 2007

Wynonna Judd's estranged husband, D.R. Roach, pleads not guilty in Nashville to charges of inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor