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    • May 1, 1985
    Johnny Cash is released from Nashville's Baptist Hospital days after surgery for abdominal scar tissue
    May 2, 1985
    Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter visit students at Nashville's Ensworth School, where they donate a guitar to the music program
    May 2, 1985
    David Crosby posts $15,000 bail and is escorted by Graham Nash from a Dallas jail, where Crosby has been serving time on drug charges. Crosby was a founder of The Byrds, who became country-rock pioneers
    May 2, 1985
    Kathy Mattea appears as marshal of the firefighters parade at the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Virginia
    May 2, 1985
    Columbia releases the "Highwayman" album, teaming Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson
    May 2, 1985
    The Judds ride in the Kentucky Derby parade in Louisville. Spend A Buck wins the horse race two days later
    May 4, 1985
    Alabama travels to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "There's No Way"
    May 6, 1985
    Warner Bros. releases the "Rustler's Rhapsody" soundtrack. It features Gary Morris' "Lasso The Moon," plus music by Randy Travis, Rex Allen Jr., Pam Tillis, Pinkard & Bowden, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Anderson and Karen Brooks
    May 6, 1985
    MCA releases George Strait's "The Fireman"
    May 6, 1985
    Alabama wins Entertainer of the Year; Top Vocal Group; and Album of the Year, for "Roll On"; in the 20th annual Academy Of Country Music awards, aired on NBC from the Goodtime Theater at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California
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