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    • Apr 7, 1997
    A day after turning 60, Merle Haggard receives a surprise party at Nashville Nightlife. Attending: George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Tanya Tucker, Vern Gosdin, Porter Wagoner, Jimmy C. Newman, Billy Walker, Little Jimmy Dickens and Ralph Emery
    Apr 8, 1997
    Curb/MCA releases Wynonna's album "Collection"
    Apr 8, 1997
    Giant releases the Clay Walker album "Rumor Has It"
    Apr 8, 1997
    RCA releases Alabama's album "Dancin' On The Boulevard"
    Apr 9, 1997
    Eddie Rabbitt's associates confirm that the singer has taken radiation treatments since early March for lung cancer
    Apr 9, 1997
    Mae Boren Axton dies at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. She was best known for writing Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel"
    Apr 11, 1997
    Singer/songwriter Marshall Chapman pays $3,250 for a wooden chair Elvis Presley once used at the Piedmont Steak House in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She wrote the Sawyer Brown hit "Betty's Bein' Bad"
    Apr 12, 1997
    Clay Walker's "Rumor Has It" hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Apr 12, 1997
    Banjo player Lewis Crook, the last remaining member of The Crook Brothers, dies in Castalian Springs, Tennessee. The Crooks played the Grand Ole Opry for 62 years
    Apr 12, 1997
    Travis Tritt marries Theresa Nelson at his home in Paulding County, Georgia, with Marty Stuart serving as best man. Tritt sings "More Than You'll Ever Know" to the bride. Also attending: Lari White, Tanya Tucker, Connie Smith and Lynyrd Skynyrd
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