June Carter Cash is destroyed by fire. April - Mary Chapin Carpenter is hospitalized for a pulmonary embolism, causing her to cancel all tours for the rest of the year. May 10 – Country music superstar Trisha Yearwood announces she is leaving MCA Records where she had been for 16 years with over 12 million albums sold and 5 number 1 singles. She announced she was signing with Big Machine Records. Yearwood and Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta met in her intern days at MTM records. Trisha's last top 10 hit with MCA was "I Would've Loved You Anyway" in 2001. September 4 – Sammy Kershaw enters the Louisiana lieutenant governor's race, running as a Republican. September 15 – Garth Brooks' song, "More Than a Memory" becomes the first song to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart, since the start of the magazine's all-encompassing country chart in 1958. October 21 – Country music legend Porter Wagoner's publicist Darlene Bieber confirms that Wagoner had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Wagoner dies seven days later. October 30 – The Eagles release their studio album Long Road Out of Eden, their first compilation of all-new material in 28 years. The album sells over a million copies in its first two weeks. Top hits of the year The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs or Canada Country charts in 2007: Top new album releases The following albums placed within the Top 50 on the Top Country Albums charts in 2007: Other top albums Deaths January 1 – Del Reeves, 74, best known for his "girl-watching" novelty-type songs (e.g., "Girl on the Billboard"). (emphysema) January 6 – Sneaky Pete Kleinow, 72, pedal steel guitarist for the Flying Burrito Brothers. (complications from Alzheimer's disease) January 13 – Doyle Holly, 70, member of Buck Owens' Buckaroos; he also had a string of minor hits in the early to mid-1970s. (prostate cancer) February 2 – Terry McMillan, 53, veteran Nashville session harmonica player and percussionist. (natural causes) March 24 – Henson Cargill, 66, country performer best known for 1968 smash "Skip a Rope." (surgical complications) April 17 – Glenn Sutton, 69, songwriter and producer best known for the hit "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden"; a chief architect of the countrypolitan sound of the late 1960s/early 1970s. (heart attack) July 3 – Boots Randolph, 80,