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    • Aug 15, 1991
    Paul Simon performs for an estimated 750,000 people in a free concert at New York's Central Park that airs on HBO. Songs include "Bridge Over Troubled Water," a 1971 country hit for Buck Owens; and "The Boxer," a 1980 release by Emmylou Harris
    Aug 15, 1991
    Vince Gill and Alan Jackson lead the way in the 25th annual Country Music Association awards with six nominations apiece. Garth Brooks receives five. Brooks and Gill compete for entertainer against Clint Black, Reba McEntire and George Strait
    Aug 17, 1991
    George Strait's "You Know Me Better Than That" begins a three-week stay at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Aug 18, 1991
    Western swing guitarist Derwood Brown's second wife, Marie, dies, 13 years after he passed away. Brown had previously led the Musical Brownies and appeared on The Fort Worth Doughboys' 1932 recording "Sunbonnet Sue"
    Aug 18, 1991
    Bill Monroe is released from Nashville's Baptist Hospital, nine days after undergoing double bypass surgery
    Aug 19, 1991
    Capitol releases Suzy Bogguss' album "Aces"
    Aug 19, 1991
    Travis Tritt presents a 20-foot replica of a Gibson guitar to the Country Music Hall Of Fame. The guitar served as his booth at Fan Fair in June; Tritt estimates the display cost $100,000 to build
    Aug 20, 1991
    Epic releases Collin Raye's debut album, "All I Can Be"
    Aug 20, 1991
    Mercury Records releases Davis Daniel's first hit single, "For Crying Out Loud"
    Aug 23, 1991
    A Hank Williams Jr. impersonator shows up at the New Orleans Saints NFL camp to pose for pictures with players. Williams warns in the future that anyone wary of an impostor should "make him take his glasses off and count the stitches in his head"
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