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    • Apr 17, 2001
    Arista releases Brooks & Dunn's album "Steers & Stripes"
    Apr 17, 2001
    Grand Ole Opry member Johnny Russell has both legs amputated below the knees, because of complications with diabetes, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville
    Apr 17, 2001
    Eleven days after his divorce is finalized, Sammy Kershaw and Lorrie Morgan announce their engagement on ABC-TV's "Live With Regis & Kelly." They plan the wedding for September 29
    Apr 17, 2001
    Music City Records releases Charley Pride's "A Tribute To Jim Reeves," purported to be the first CD using technology that prevents unauthorized copying
    Apr 18, 2001
    The "Coyote Ugly" soundtrack is certified double-platinum by the RIAA. It features four LeAnn Rimes songs, plus The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" and music by Don Henley, INXS, Snap and EMF, among others
    Apr 19, 2001
    Keith Urban takes part in a USA Today online chat, where he's asked about posing in the current Playgirl magazine: "They tell me it was sold out, which is a good thing. I thought it'd be done tastefully, so I agreed"
    Apr 19, 2001
    The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts recommends that a commemorative quarter honoring Tennessee feature a guitar, fiddle and horn, recognizing the state's heritage in country music and the blues
    Apr 19, 2001
    John Stoneman dies in Jonesville, Virginia, of heart failure. The son of Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, he played autoharp in an early incarnation of The Stoneman Family, but gave it up for farming
    Apr 20, 2001
    An Atlanta judge blocks the release of "XXX's And OOO's" songwriter Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone," a sequel to "Gone With The Wind." She classifies the work as commentary; the judge calls it "unabated piracy"
    Apr 21, 2001
    John Michael Montgomery makes his Grand Ole Opry debut, singing "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" and "The Little Girl"
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