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    • Jan 27, 1986
    Willie Nelson wins four trophies at the American Music Awards, two for the video to "Highwayman," with Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. Alabama and Crystal Gayle are double winners, and Hank Williams Jr. gets one award
    Jan 27, 1986
    RCA releases Alabama's "Greatest Hits"
    Jan 28, 1986
    The Challenger space shuttle explodes after takeoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing seven people. Many radio stations stop playing Billy Joe Royal's "Burned Like A Rocket." The disaster is recalled in Mark Wills' 2002 hit "19 Somethin'"
    Jan 28, 1986
    George Strait records "It Ain't Cool To Be Crazy About You" at Sound Stage on Music Row in Nashville
    Jan 29, 1986
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Allen Collins has an alcohol-related car accident in Jacksonville, Florida, killing his girlfriend and paralyzing him below the neck. He pleads no contest to manslaughter charges
    Jan 29, 1986
    TNN begins airing the daily "Crook & Chase" show, starring Lorianne Crook and Charlie Chase, on weeknights. The pair eventually replaces Ralph Emery's "Nashville Now" talk show in 1993 with "Music City Tonight"
    Jan 30, 1986
    Reba McEntire begins filming the video for "Whoever's In New England" at the Eastern terminal of Boston's Logan Airport
    Jan 30, 1986
    George Strait records "Nobody In His Right Mind Would've Left Her" at the Sound Stage in Nashville
    Jan 31, 1986
    Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Glen Campbell and Burl Ives star as the movie "Uphill All The Way" debuts in theaters. Also in the cast are Sheb Wooley and Burt Reynolds
    Jan 31, 1986
    Reprise releases Dwight Yoakam's remake of Johnny Horton's "Honky Tonk Man"
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