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Aug 7, 1989
Merle Haggard is honored by the RIAA with a gold album for "His Epic Hits - The First Eleven - To Be Continued"
Aug 7, 1989
MCA releases The Oak Ridge Boys' "An American Family"
Aug 7, 1989
Atlantic Records opens a Nashville office, becoming a home for Tracy Lawrence, John Michael Montgomery and Confederate Railroad
Aug 7, 1989
T.C. "Son" Lansford dies in Fort Worth, Texas. He played bass for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys from 1935-1941, appearing on such titles as "Take Me Back To Tulsa," "Ida Red," "San Antonio Rose" and "Maiden's Prayer"
Aug 8, 1989
The Globe reports Wynonna Judd is expecting. She takes a pregnancy test to prove the gossip magazine's story is untrue
Aug 8, 1989
Columbia releases Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Never Had It So Good"
Aug 9, 1989
Tanya Tucker plays a show in Lucasville, Ohio, near the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, where Johnny Paycheck is serving time. After she visits him, Tucker sends Paycheck pajamas and slippers
Aug 12, 1989
Patty Loveless notches her first #1 country single in Billboard magazine with "Timber, I'm Falling In Love"
Aug 16, 1989
Riders In The Sky perform their 2,000th show in Santa Cruz, California
Aug 17, 1989
Singer/songwriter Mitchell Tenpenny is born in Nashville. A co-writer of Granger Smith's "If The Boot Fits," Tenpenny collects his first hit as an artist with the 2018 single "Drunk Me"
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