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Mar 1, 1996
Alison Krauss + Union Station garner a double-platinum album from the RIAA for "Now That I've Found You: A Collection"
Mar 2, 1996
Billboard reports Brooks & Dunn's image will be featured during the year on 20 million boxes of Kellogg's Corn Flakes
Mar 2, 1996
Martina McBride ascends to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart for the first time in her career with "Wild Angels"
Mar 3, 1996
Kyle Bailes dies. He played bass behind Hank Williams on "The Louisiana Hayride," and was one of four siblings who performed in various lineups of the Grand Ole Opry duo The Bailes Brothers
Mar 4, 1996
Minnie Pearl dies in Nashville of complications from a stroke. Noted for her homespun humor, the country comic spent more than 50 years with the Grand Ole Opry, becoming a regular on the syndicated TV show "Hee Haw" and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
Mar 5, 1996
Earl Thomas Conley, Lee Roy Parnell, Betsy Smittle and Becky Hobbs perform at Nashville's Belmont Church during a memorial service for Gus Hardin
Mar 5, 1996
Bounty hunters arrest Huey Meaux in Juarez, Mexico, and return him to Houston, where he's to stand trial on charges of sexual assault, child pornography and cocaine possession. Meaux produced Freddy Fender's "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"
Mar 6, 1996
More than 1,500 people attend a memorial service for Minnie Pearl at the Brentwood United Methodist Church, including Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Janis Gill, Amy Grant, Gary Chapman, Grandpa Jones, Jan Howard, Barbara Mandrell and Wynonna Judd
Mar 7, 1996
Tracy Lawrence's divorce from the former Frances Weatherford is finalized in Wilson County, Tennessee
Mar 7, 1996
Junior Brown pops into Masterfonics in Nashville to help The Beach Boys on a country album, remaking "409"
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