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Aug 1, 1997
Disney launches a country label, Lyric Street Records, in Nashville. The company becomes a home for such acts as SHeDAISY, Aaron Tippin, Rascal Flatts, Bucky Covington and Lari White
Aug 1, 1997
Shelby Lynne suffers head injuries when she crashes a pickup truck in Williamson County, Tennessee. She is hospitalized at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she remains for two days
Aug 1, 1997
Disc jockey Carl P. Mayfield begins playing an Anita Cochran duet with Steve Wariner, "What If I Said," on WSIX-FM in Nashville, eventually convincing Warner Bros. to release it as a single
Aug 1, 1997
Boxcar Willie performs on the Grand Ole Opry. The moment proves significant: A recurrence of leukemia keeps him off of the show for almost 11 more months
Aug 3, 1997
Shelby Lynne is released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, two days after she received head injuries in a one-vehicle pickup truck accident
Aug 3, 1997
Diamond Rio performs at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida
Aug 4, 1997
Pop vocalist Louise King dies in Sandy, Utah. In addition to a string of pop recordings in the 1940s and a 1960s network TV show, The King Sisters realized a country hit with a 1946 remake of Merle Travis' "Divorce Me C.O.D."
Aug 4, 1997
Daytime soap stars Scott and Melissa Reeves have a son, Lawrence David Reeves. Six years later, Daddy forms the country duo Blue County
Aug 4, 1997
BR5-49 begins a 20-date concert tour as the opening act for Bob Dylan, kicking off the run in Lenox, Massachusetts
Aug 5, 1997
Deana Carter and George Strait take five nominations apiece to lead the rest of the field for the Country Music Associations awards
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