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    • Apr 13, 1997
    Following a rash of fast-food murders in Nashville, Hank Williams Jr. has a letter to the editor printed in The Tennessean, favoring the death penalty: "If there has ever been a reason for the state of Tennessee to start executing people--now is the time"
    Apr 14, 1997
    Arista releases Pam Tillis' "All The Good Ones Are Gone"
    Apr 14, 1997
    The website country.com is officially launched. It's eventually renamed CMT.com
    Apr 15, 1997
    Curb releases Sawyer Brown's album "Six Days On The Road"
    Apr 15, 1997
    James Stroud ends a five-year run as the head of Giant Records in Nashville. The label's roster includes Clay Walker and Daryle Singletary
    Apr 15, 1997
    James Bonamy and wife Amy Jane have their first son, James Daniel, in Nashville
    Apr 16, 1997
    Christopher Davis is imprisoned for second-degree murder. A suspected drug dealer, he is indicted 19 months later for the 1995 shooting of 12-year-old Nashvillian Adriane Dickerson, whose death inspired Vince Gill's "Pretty Little Adriana"
    Apr 16, 1997
    Billy Dean makes a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom "Wings"
    Apr 16, 1997
    Four days after their 17th anniversary, Janis Gill files for divorce from Vince Gill at the Williamson County Chancery Court in Tennessee
    Apr 17, 1997
    Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosts a benefit concert to raise money for a monument to Bill Monroe. On the bill: Marty Stuart, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, Connie Smith, Mark O'Connor, Del McCoury and Ricky Skaggs
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