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8. Crackhead Marries Seven Times!

After his 1986 Guitar Town topped the charts, Steve Earle began taking as much crack, smack and Dilaudid as he could afford. At the end of the '80s, he picked up two assualt charges and quit music to hang around South Nashville crack houses. In July 1994, he was released on bond after a drug bust and later that day was caught smoking crack and was arrested again -- "Still in the f---ing tie I'd been wearing in court," he said. After four months in prison, he finally got clean; he recently married -- for the seventh time.

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      Steve Earle was busted for crack several times during the height of his career. See Earle and other inductees into 'Country's Hall of Shame' in Blender's 'Hee-Haw Babylon' photo gallery.

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