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May 21, 1988
The Judds, Alabama, George Strait and Randy Travis play a sold-out show at the prestigious Madison Square Garden. It represents the first appearance in New York City for Travis, whose set includes "On The Other Hand" and "No Place Like Home"
May 29, 1988
Country Music Association award-winner Levon Helm plays the Lone Star Cafe in New York, where Bob Dylan makes a surprise appearance to sit in on "The Weight"
Jul 5, 1988
Rosanne Cash makes the cover of New York's alternative weekly, The Village Voice, where she admits the depths of her former addiction: "I was buying drugs and flushing them down the toilet, and then buying them again the next day"
Nov 24, 1988
Tanya Tucker lip syncs "Highway Robbery" from atop a turkey float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Jan 16, 1989
With his song "You Got It" in circulation, Roy Orbison is announced among the year's inductees in the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Jan 18, 1989
"To Know Him Is To Love Him" songwriter Phil Spector is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Other new additions include Dion, Otis Redding and The Rolling Stones
Mar 10, 1989
Baritone singer Doc Green dies of cancer in Queens, New York. In the 1950s, he became a member of the R&B group The Drifters, singing on "Save The Last Dance For Me." The song was remade as a country hit by three different acts: Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton
Apr 15, 1989
The historic Lone Star Cafe closes in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. For years, the club was one of the few means of live exposure for country acts in New York. A performance at the venue inspired Hank Williams Jr.'s "Dixie On My Mind"
Apr 15, 1989
Dolly Parton is the guest host and musical guest on "Saturday Night Live." She sings "Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That"
May 2, 1989
Songwriter Bennie Benjamin dies at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He authored the Charlie Rich hit "I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore," as well as "I'll Never Be Free," a hit originally for Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie Ford and again for Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius
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