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Jun 5, 1931
Jimmie Rodgers visits songwriter Ray Hall at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, to work out copyright issues on "Moonlight And Skies." Hall maintains he is owed a royalty, instead of the flat fee Rodgers had offered him
Aug 1, 1934
Lead Belly is released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. His song "Goodnight Irene" will become a country hit twice in 1950, for Moon Mullican and for Ernest Tubb & Red Foley
Jun 1, 1938
Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, begins serving a three-year sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman
Feb 6, 1939
Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, is released from jail after serving eight months of a three-year sentence for forging a $4 check
Nov 16, 1944
Chuck Berry, a future member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, pleads guilty in Boone County, Missouri, for using a gun to steal a car. He and three friends are sentenced to 10 years in prison. He serves three years
Sep 26, 1947
While spending six months in a Roswell, New Mexico, jail for statutory rape, Lefty Frizzell writes "I Love You A Thousand Ways" for his wife, Alice
Oct 18, 1947
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" songwriter Chuck Berry is released from prison in Missouri, after serving three years for armed robbery
Feb 21, 1948
Lefty Frizzell ends a six-month jail sentence for statutory rape in Roswell, New Mexico. During his stay behind bars, Frizzell wrote "I Love You A Thousand Ways"
Dec 22, 1949
Woody Guthrie receives an early release from a 180-day jail sentence for mailing obscene materials. Guthrie had experienced better returns for his writing: In 1945 cousin Jack Guthrie had a hit with their co-written "Oklahoma Hills"
Aug 24, 1951
George Jones is jailed for failing to make support payments to his wife, Dorothy, who had filed for divorce a month earlier
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