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    • Jul 26, 1976
    Danny Shirley buys his first guitar, setting him on a musical path that eventually leads to a role as the lead singer for Confederate Railroad
    Dec 25, 1976
    Clay Davidson receives his first guitar as a Christmas present
    Jun 20, 1980
    Dan Tyminski receives a banjo for his 13th birthday in Vermont. He will become a longtime member of Alison Krauss + Union Station
    Aug 14, 1980
    A Martin guitar that George Jones has used for 20 years is stolen in Terrell, North Carolina. A man who was offered the guitar recognizes it from local newscasts, obtains it and returns it to Jones five days later
    Dec 25, 1980
    Brad Paisley receives a Sears Silvertone electric guitar and amp from his grandfather, Warren Jarvis, for Christmas in West Virginia. It's Paisley's first guitar
    Jul 14, 1981
    Some $175,000 worth of sound equipment and instruments is stolen from Merle Haggard prior to a show in Houston. He borrows gear for the concert; most of the equipment is recovered the next day when the thief tries to sell it at a pawn shop
    Jan 21, 1983
    Charlie Daniels donates the fiddle he used to record "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville
    Aug 15, 1984
    Billy Ray Cyrus' band loses almost all its instruments and equipment when a fire is set at Changes, a club in Ironton, Ohio, where they are scheduled to perform
    May 2, 1985
    Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter visit students at Nashville's Ensworth School, where they donate a guitar to the music program
    Nov 13, 1985
    C.F. Martin III, who oversees Martin Guitars, is inducted in the Hollywood RockWalk



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