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    • Sep 9, 1996
    Jane Petty files for divorce from Tom Petty, ending a 22-year marriage. The rocker's songwriting credits include Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You," Southern Pacific's "Thing About You" and Roy Orbison's "You Got It"
    Sep 9, 1996
    MCA releases Tracy Byrd's "Big Love"
    Sep 9, 1996
    Bill Monroe dies at Northcrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tennessee, five months after suffering a stroke. Acknowledged as the "Father of Bluegrass," he joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1939 and entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970
    Sep 11, 1996
    Clay Walker garners a platinum album from the RIAA for "Hypnotize The Moon"
    Sep 11, 1996
    Collin Raye's album "I Think About You" is certified platinum by the RIAA
    Sep 11, 1996
    More than 2,000 people attend a memorial service for Bill Monroe at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, with performances by Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, Ricky Skaggs, Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless and Connie Smith
    Sep 11, 1996
    Danny Groah, guitar player with Alan Jackson's band, The Strayhorns, returns to the stage in Holmdel, New Jersey, seven weeks after a finger on his left hand was nearly severed in a freak accident with his riding lawn mower
    Sep 12, 1996
    Neal McCoy sings the national anthem at the Ballpark in Arlington, where the Milwaukee Brewers swamp the hometown Texas Rangers, 15-4
    Sep 12, 1996
    Bill Monroe is buried in Rosine, Kentucky, as Ricky Skaggs sings "Amazing Grace" and Ralph Stanley delivers "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
    Sep 13, 1996
    The TV talk show "Donahue" airs for the final time on daytime TV, a year after Terri Clark nodded to the program in the lyrics of her country hit "Better Things To Do"
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