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  • May 17, 1993
    Johnny Cash begins four days of recording in producer Rick Rubin's living room in Los Angeles, backed only by his own guitar. The session marks the start of work on Cash's album "American Recordings"
    May 18, 1993
    Alabama's Randy Owen enters a Birmingham hospital with chest pains. He's released the next day
    May 20, 1993
    Loretta Lynn's husband, Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, undergoes open heart surgery in Springfield, Missouri
    May 20, 1993
    "Cheers" makes its final prime-time appearance. Sam Malone's bar includes a Wurlitzer jukebox that plays Patsy Cline's "I Fall To Pieces"
    May 22, 1993
    Reba McEntire hits #1 on the Billboard country albums chart with "It's Your Call"
    May 22, 1993

    Ricky Van Shelton sings the national anthem before the NASCAR race The Winston, won by Dale Earnhardt, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina

    May 22, 1993
    CBS airs "Willie Nelson The Big Six-0: An All-Star Birthday Celebration," with Ray Charles, B.B. King, Paul Simon, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Travis Tritt, Lyle Lovett, Bob Dylan, Marty Stuart, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. The special closes with a mass rendition of "Whiskey River"
    May 22, 1993
    Kenny Rogers handles a guest role on the weekly series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," portraying a Civil War photographer
    May 24, 1993
    Epic releases Doug Stone's "Why Didn't I Think Of That"
    May 25, 1993
    "This Time" nets a gold album from the RIAA for Dwight Yoakam

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