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    • Apr 12, 1974
    Roy Clark hosts a country edition of the NBC-TV series "The Midnight Special," welcoming guests Conway Twitty, Lynn Anderson, Tom T. Hall, Charlie McCoy, Tommy Overstreet, Mel Tillis and Diana Trask
    Apr 12, 1974
    Johnny Cash does a free show for inmates at the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville with Linda Ronstadt and Roy Clark. The concert becomes a TV special, "Behind Prison Walls," featuring such titles as "Desperado," "Honeymoon Feelin'," "A Boy Named Sue" and "Folsom Prison Blues"
    Apr 13, 1974
    Charlie Rich reaches the top position on the Billboard country albums chart with "There Won't Be Anymore"
    Apr 13, 1974
    George Jones' mother, Clara, dies
    Apr 15, 1974
    Charlie McCoy records four songs at Nashville's Cinderella Studios, three of which appear in Grammy-nominated albums. "Help Me" and "The Way We Were" are added to "The Nashville Hit Man," while "The Twelfth Of Never" goes on "Charlie My Boy"
    Apr 15, 1974
    MCA releases Conway Twitty's "I'm Not Through Loving You Yet"
    Apr 15, 1974
    MCA releases Lynyrd Skynyrd's album "Second Helping." It includes "Sweet Home Alabama," tabbed by the Country Music Foundation among country music's 500 greatest singles of all-time in the 2003 book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Apr 15, 1974
    Tom T. Hall records "That Song Is Driving Me Crazy" at the Mercury Custom Recording Studio in Nashville
    Apr 17, 1974
    Bobbie Jett, the one-time girlfriend of Hank Williams, dies in California. Her daughter, Cathy, is later found by the courts to be Williams' offspring, and she combines the two last names, Jett Williams, for her own stage name
    Apr 18, 1974
    Guitarist and banjo player Marvin Evatt is born. He joins Carolina Rain, a vocal trio that collects a 2008 Academy of Country Music awards nomination for Top New Duo or Vocal Group
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