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Oct 27, 1999

Mark Collie holds his annual celebrity race for diabetes at the Nashville Speedway. Drivers include Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, John Michael Montgomery, Chely Wright, Anita Cochran, Billy Ray Cyrus, Rodney Crowell, Aaron Tippin and Gary Chapman

Oct 28, 1999

Chet Atkins flips the switch when a 28-foot neon model of his Country Gentleman guitar is inaugurated as the sign for the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Nashville

Oct 31, 1999

Johnny Cash is discharged from Baptist Hospital in Nashville, following two weeks of treatment for pneumonia

Oct 31, 1999

Bryan White sings the national anthem when the Tennessee Titans host the St. Louis Rams at Nashville's Adelphia Coliseum in what turns out to be a preview of the Super Bowl. The Titans win, 24-21

Nov 2, 1999

Vince Gill holds his 10th celebrity basketball game at Nashville's Belmont University. Players include Kix Brooks, Brad Paisley, The Wilkinsons, Billy Dean, Chad Brock, Mark Wills, Mark Miller, Paul Brandt and Sons Of The Desert, among others

Nov 5, 1999

John Berry rides the zamboni--and sings at the same time--during the second intermission of an NHL game at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville. The Chicago Black Hawks beat the Predators, 3-1

Nov 5, 1999

The Tennessean reports five members of the Grand Ole Opry house band are being fired to revitalize the show. Counters Vince Gill: "The real crux of the problem is in Garth and in Reba and in Alan and in Clint... Big stars of today that don't support" it

Nov 6, 1999

Waylon Jennings visits the Tennessee home of steel guitarist Robby Turner in the first of three sessions that yield the basic tracks to his final album, finished and released a decade after Jennings' death

Nov 9, 1999

Sammy Kershaw's wife, the former Kimberly Moore, files for divorce in Nashville, citing irreconcilable differences

Nov 11, 1999

Mary Reeves Davis, the widow of country singer Jim Reeves, dies at Richland Place, a nursing home in Nashville

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