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It's not easy to score a successful song in Nashville,

what some call a bullet.

Sometimes what it takes is a little more than talent and a little less than legal.

When singer and music researcher Kevin Hughes was gunned down on music Row, prosecutors say he was killed to keep him from

exposing a dirty business practice in the music industry.

But who would want him dead? I'm Vinny Palatan and on this week's court TV podcast,

we're taking you in for a closer look at this case with an audio edition

of our original series,

Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall.

This week's episode is entitled,

A Hit with a Bullet.

This is the Court TV Podcast. The

National has always been Music City, USA.

It draws the Dreamers.

There was kind of an underbelly of the music business that sort of preyed on that.

Kevin, he was just a young kid that wanted to get into the industry.

Me and Kevin walked across 16th Avenue and I said oh my God this guy's got a gun.

The shooter shot Kevin down and fired bullets into his head.

I think at first the police thought it was kind of a random thing.

Now is why would this happen and why would they go after this individual?

I lived 13-half years of my life wondering who shot us, why did this happen. On the night of March 9th 1989,

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