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    • Jan 24, 1997
    The Hootie + The Blowfish album "Cracked Rear View," featuring future country star Darius Rucker, is certified 15-times platinum by the RIAA
    Jan 24, 1997
    Tax dollars at work: The Tennessee legislature passes a resolution on Warren Zevon's 50th birthday, strangely honoring him as a "great balladeer." In release at the time: Terri Clark's remake of his song "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me"
    Jan 25, 1997
    Buck Owens checks into a Bakersfield hospital with pneumonia
    Jan 26, 1997
    Ford Trucks debuts a new commercial during the Super Bowl, using Alan Jackson's "Mercury Blues" with revised lyrics
    Jan 26, 1997
    Mary Chapin Carpenter performs "Down At The Twist And Shout" with BeauSoleil during the pre-game show for Super Bowl XXXI at the Superdome in New Orleans. Green Bay beats New England, 35-21
    Jan 27, 1997
    "High Lonesome" earns a platinum album for Randy Travis from the RIAA
    Jan 27, 1997
    LeAnn Rimes wins her first major trophy, for Favorite New Country Artist, at the American Music Awards at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Other country winners: Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Brooks & Dunn and George Strait
    Jan 27, 1997
    Pop songwriter Gerald Marks dies in New York. He was best known for penning "All Of Me," which became a country hit for Willie Nelson in 1978
    Jan 28, 1997
    Rising Tide Records releases The Buffalo Club's debut single, "If She Don't Love You," for commercial sale
    Jan 28, 1997
    Windham Hill releases pop piano player Jim Brickman's album "Picture This." It includes Martina McBride's performance of "Valentine"
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