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    • May 4, 2008
    Guitarist George "Leo" Jackson, suffering from chronic back pain, commits suicide at his home in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. A former member of Jim Reeves' Blue Boys, he played on hits by Moe Bandy, George Strait and Tom T. Hall
    May 4, 2008
    Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonograph, is one of the inaugural inductees in the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Also added: Bruce Springsteen, Yogi Berra, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra
    May 5, 2008
    BNA releases Craig Morgan's single "Love Remembers" to radio
    May 5, 2008
    Doctors discover a spot on Merle Haggard's lung. Haggard initially decides to ignore it, though his family convinces him to have surgery six months later
    May 5, 2008
    Jerry Wallace dies of congestive heart failure at his home in Victorville, California. Originally a pop artist, he secured five Top 15 country hits in the 1970s, including the #1 single "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry"
    May 5, 2008

    Sluggo is intrigued: Carrie Underwood is the subject of a photo spread in fictitious Teen Dream magazine in the "Nancy" comic strip. Her name appears in the strip again the following two days

    May 6, 2008
    Capitol releases Dierks Bentley's "Greatest Hits//Every Mile A Memory 2003-2008"
    May 6, 2008
    Show Dog releases Toby Keith's two-CD package "35 Biggest Hits"
    May 6, 2008
    Songwriter Patrick Jason Matthews, author of the Billy Currington hit "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right," releases his debut album, "Hicotine"
    May 6, 2008
    "The Howard Stern Show" heavily edits Dolly Parton audio to create a series of sexual and derogatory comments about Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Carson and Minnie Pearl. Parton issues a statement saying she is "shocked, hurt and humiliated"
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