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    • Jul 5, 1980
    Willie Nelson records "Mona Lisa" at Gilley's Recording Studio in Pasadena, Texas
    Jul 9, 1980
    Drummer Aaron Sterling is born in Garland, Texas. Rising to prominence through his work with John Mayer, he becomes a significant country session player, contributing to Dierks Bentley's "Somewhere On A Beach," Maren Morris' "My Church," Taylor Swift's "Red" and Kane Brown's "Heaven"
    Jul 10, 1980
    Jessica Simpson is born in Abilene, Texas. Following a career in pop music, she nets a #1 country album with her 2008 release "Do You Know"
    Aug 6, 1980
    Six hours before a scheduled concert for 660 nuns, Charley Pride's airplane is involved in a mid-air collision in Texas. Two passengers in the other plane are killed; Pride and 15 others miraculously escape without major injury
    Aug 18, 1980
    Cody Jinks is born in Haltom City, Texas. He reaches the Top 5 on the Billboard country albums chart in 2016 with "I'm Not The Devil"
    Sep 5, 1980
    A statue honoring Buddy Holly is unveiled at the Lubbock Civic Center in Texas. A memorial concert features Waylon Jennings, Roy Orbison, Bo Diddley and Holly's former band, The Crickets
    Nov 6, 1980
    Johnny Cash gives a free concert for inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, playing "Folsom Prison Blues," "Ring Of Fire" and "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky"
    Dec 31, 1980
    Asleep At The Wheel joins Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen in the final show at Austin's influential Armadillo World Headquarters
    Jan 31, 1981
    John Hiatt and Ry Cooder perform at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. In the audience is future country figure Lyle Lovett
    Apr 1, 1981
    Billy Bob's Texas, the world's biggest honky tonk, opens in Fort Worth with a concert by Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band
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