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Jul 17, 1985
Wynn Stewart dies from a heart attack at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A major link in the Bakersfield Sound, he had a half-dozen hits from 1960-1976, topped by 1967's "It's Such A Pretty World Today"
Jul 24, 1985
Kenny Rogers is named the first winner of the Roy Acuff Humanitarian Award by the Country Music Foundation
Aug 15, 1985
Alan Jackson has his first appointment with Marty Gamblin, an executive with Glen Campbell's publishing company
Aug 16, 1985
Carl Perkins' blue suede shoes are stolen from his tour bus while it's parked outside a Memphis theater where he's performing
Aug 19, 1985
June Carter Cash takes the desk for Ralph Emery on the TNN talk show "Nashville Now." Her guests include Merle Haggard and Rosey Carter, and husband Johnny Cash makes an unannounced late appearance
Aug 20, 1985
Ricky Skaggs leads with six nominations for the Country Music Association awards. Alabama, George Strait and Lee Greenwood each get four nominations. Those four are finalists for the Entertainer of the Year title, along with Reba McEntire
Aug 22, 1985
Steve Earle signs with MCA Records in Nashville
Aug 29, 1985
Mandolin player Gene Johnson moves his family from Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, to Nashville, where he will become a member of Diamond Rio
Sep 1, 1985
Alan Jackson moves from Georgia to Nashville
Sep 4, 1985
Barbara Mandrell files a $10.3-million suit in Gallatin, Tennessee, against the estate of Mark White, the driver of the other car in her near-fatal 1984 accident. The move provokes a backlash, though she says it's necessary to collect insurance payments
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