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Apr 5, 1981
Mike Eli is born in Tomball, Texas. He becomes the lead singer of The Eli Young Band, which earns an Academy of Country Music award in 2012 with the Song of the Year, "Crazy Girl." EYB also nabs hits with "Even If It Breaks Your Heart," "Always The Love Songs" and "Drunk Last Night"
Jun 8, 1981
Two future Country Music Hall of Fame members hook up for two days of recording, as Willie Nelson and Webb Pierce cut the duet album "In The Jailhouse Now." The project also features Leon Russell and The Band's Richard Manuel
Jun 9, 1981
Former Texas Playboys vocalist Eugene "Tagg" Lambert dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in Turkey, Texas. He appeared on the 1968 recording "Southwestern Waltz," which makes it into the 1983 movie "The Right Stuff"
Jun 13, 1981
The Oak Ridge Boys hold their third Stars For Children benefit at Reunion Arena in Dallas, raising money for child abuse with assistance from Alabama, Rosanne Cash, The Bellamy Brothers, Roy Clark and Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band
Jun 19, 1981
Dottsy marries Robin Dwyer in San Antonio, Texas
Jul 3, 1981
George Jones disappears from a hospital in Beaumont, Texas, where he'd checked in with exhaustion. Friends are unable to locate him for days
Jul 9, 1981
Bass singer Tim Foust is born in Lubbock, Texas. He joins the a cappella country group Home Free in 2012, the year before the act wins NBC's "The Sing-Off." Home Free releases "Crazy Life," the first of numerous Top 10 albums, in 2014
Jul 14, 1981
Some $175,000 worth of sound equipment and instruments is stolen from Merle Haggard prior to a show in Houston. He borrows gear for the concert; most of the equipment is recovered the next day when the thief tries to sell it at a pawn shop
Jul 19, 1981
Roy Orbison receives the key to the city of Odessa, Texas
Aug 20, 1981
George Jones fails to show for a concert in Wichita Falls, Texas. He also stiffs two managers at a meeting to reassign his contract
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