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    • Apr 11, 1988
    Conway Twitty sells his shares in the Nashville Sounds minor league baseball team. Twitty owned 20% of the ballclub
    Apr 26, 1988
    The Nashville Network debuts a new awards show, where Randy Travis takes top honors with five trophies, including Entertainer of the Year. Two years later, the event is merged with The Music City News awards
    Apr 28, 1988
    Pop singer B.W. Stevenson dies in Nashville from an infection following heart surgery. The singer scored a hit in 1973 with "My Maria," which Brooks & Dunn revive as a country single in 1996
    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
    May 4, 1988
    The Country Music Association eliminates the Video of the Year category from its awards, although it is reinstated a year later
    May 6, 1988
    Pam Lewis and Bob Doyle form a management company to oversee a boot salesman named Garth Brooks
    May 11, 1988
    Garth Brooks performs at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, where Capitol executive Lynn Shults, who auditioned him one month earlier, is present. Following a set that includes "If Tomorrow Never Comes," Shults gives him a handshake, promising to sign him
    May 12, 1988
    Tennessee Repertory Theater presents an 11-day run of "Jesus Christ Superstar," with Pam Tillis taking the role of Mary Magdalene
    May 13, 1988
    Trisha Yearwood competes on TNN's talent search, "You Can Be A Star." She loses to a cab driver from Atlanta
    May 23, 1988
    The Statler Brothers record "Let's Get Started If We're Gonna Break My Heart" at an afternoon session at Nashville's Young 'Un Sound
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