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The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
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. A non-profit organization, it declares its objective is to honor and preserve the songwriting legacy that is uniquely associated with music community in the city of Nashville. The Foundation's stated purpose is to educate, archive, and celebrate the contributions of the members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame to the world of music.

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The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. A non-profit organization, it declares its objective is to honor and preserve the songwriting legacy that is uniquely associated with music community in the city of Nashville. The Foundation's stated purpose is to educate, archive, and celebrate the contributions of the members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame to the world of music.

The Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc. is governed by a board of directors, currently consisting of thirteen members. Annually, three songwriters are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Inductees


1970

  • Gene Autry
    Gene Autry

    Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
  • Johnny Bond
    Johnny Bond

    Johnny Bond, was a popular country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s....
  • Albert E. Brumley
    Albert E. Brumley

    Albert Edward Brumley was a shape note gospel music composer and publisher.Brumley was born near Spiro, Oklahoma on October 29, 1905. Pre-Dustbowl Oklahoma was primarily made up of sparse agricultural communities; Brumley's family was no different....
  • A.P. Carter
  • Ted Daffan
    Ted Daffan

    Theron Eugene "Ted" Daffan was an American country musician....
  • Vernon Dalhart
    Vernon Dalhart

    Vernon Dalhart...
  • Rex Griffin
    Rex Griffin

    Alsie "Rex" Griffin was an American country musician....
  • Stuart Hamblen
  • Pee Wee King
    Pee Wee King

    Pee Wee King, born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski , was an United States country music songwriter and recording artist. He was born in Milwaukee to a Polish American family and lived in Abrams, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, during his youth....
  • Vic McAlpin
  • Bob Miller
  • Leon Payne
    Leon Payne

    Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter....
  • Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

    Jimmie Rodgers was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"....
  • Fred Rose
    Fred Rose (musician)

    Fred Rose was an United States Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy....
  • Redd Stewart
    Redd Stewart

    Redd Stewart born Henry Ellis Stewart was an American country music songwriter and recording artist born in Ashland City, Tennessee. While still a child, his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky....
  • Floyd Tillman
    Floyd Tillman

    Floyd Tillman was a country musician who, in the 1930s-40s, helped create the western swing and honky tonk styles of music. Tillman was inducted into the Songwriters? Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984....
  • Merle Travis
    Merle Travis

    Merle Robert Travis was an United States country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the exploitation of coal miners....
  • Ernest Tubb
    Ernest Tubb

    Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour", was an United States singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song "Walking the Floor Over You" marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music....
  • Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker

    Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by many different artists....
  • Hank Williams, Sr.
    Hank Williams, Sr.

    Hank Williams was an United States singer and songwriter and musician who has become an icon of country music and one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century....
  • Bob Wills
    Bob Wills

    James Robert Wills was an United States Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called by his fans the "King of Western Swing."...


1971

  • Smiley Burnette
    Smiley Burnette

    Lester Alvin Burnette , an United States singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 different musical instruments, was a successful comedy actor in western film films over three decades....
  • Jenny Lou Carson
    Jenny Lou Carson

    Jenny Lou Carson, was an American county singer/songwriter and the first woman to write a #1 country music hit....
  • Wilf Carter
    Wilf Carter

    Wilf Carter , also known as Montana Slim, was a Canadian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Yodeling. Widely acknowledged as the father of Canadian country music, Carter was Canada's first country music star, inspiring a generation of young Canadian performers....
  • Zeke Clements
  • Jimmie Davis
    Jimmie Davis

    James Houston Davis , better known as Jimmie Davis, was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic Party governor of Louisiana ....
  • Alton & Rabon Delmore
  • Al Dexter
    Al Dexter

    Al Dexter was an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for "Pistol Packin' Mama", a 1942 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years and would later become a hit again with a cover by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters....
  • Vaughn Horton
  • Bradley Kincaid
    Bradley Kincaid

    William Bradley Kincaid was an United States folk singer and noted radio entertainer.He was born in Point Level, Kentucky, Garrard County, Kentucky, Kentucky but would build a music career in the northern states....
  • Bill Monroe
    Bill Monroe

    William Smith Monroe was an United States musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass music, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky....
  • Bob Nolan
    Bob Nolan

    Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers musical group and the composer of numerous Country music songs including the standards Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds....
  • Tex Owens
  • Tex Ritter
    Tex Ritter

    Tex Ritter was an United States of America Country music singer and actor and the father of actor John Ritter....
  • Carson J. Robison
    Carson Robison

    Carson Jay Robison was an United States country music singer and songwriter. Although his impact is generally forgotten today, he played a large role in promoting country music in its early years through his work on numerous recordings and appearances on radio....
  • Gene Sullivan
    Gene Sullivan

    Gene Sullivan was the 28th head college football coachfor the Geneva College located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and he held that position for seventeen seasons, from 1976 until 1992....
  • Tim Spencer
    Tim Spencer

    Timothy Spencer is a former professional American football running back who played in the USFL and NFL from 1983 to 1990....
  • Jimmy Wakely
    Jimmy Wakely

    Jimmy Wakely was an American Country music singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following the Second World War.During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he made several Country-Western recordings, appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios, appeared on radio and television, and even had his own series of co...
  • Wiley Walker
  • Scotty Wiseman


1972

  • Boudleaux & Felice Bryant
  • Lefty Frizzell
    Lefty Frizzell

    William Orville 'Lefty' Frizzell was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s and a leading exponent of the Honky Tonk style of country music....
  • Jack Rhodes
    Jack Rhodes

    Andrew Jackson Rhodes 1908-1968Was an American country songwriter penning such hits as "A Satisfied Mind", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Conscience I'm Guilty",...
  • Don Robertson


1973

  • Jack Clement
    Jack Clement

    Jack Henderson Clement is an United States singer, songwriter, and a record producer and film producer.Raised and educated in Memphis, Jack Clement was performing at an early age....
  • Don Gibson
    Don Gibson

    Donald Eugene Gibson was an United States songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams " and "I Can't Stop Loving You" and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970's....
  • Harlan Howard
    Harlan Howard

    Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific United States songwriter, principally in the field of country music. In a career spanning six decades Harlan Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists....
  • Roger Miller
    Roger Miller

    Roger Dean Miller was an United States singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his mid-1960s country/pop hits such as King of the Road , Dang Me and England Swings....
  • Ed Nelson, Jr.
  • Steve Nelson
    Steve Nelson

    * Steve Nelson is the New England Patriots American football player.* Steve Nelson is the musician.* Steve Nelson refers to the Communist Party member; Spanish Civil War veteran; and U.S....
  • Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson

    Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....


1974

  • Hank Cochran
    Hank Cochran

    Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran is an United States country music singer and songwriter....


1975

  • Bill Anderson
    Bill Anderson (country music)

    James William Anderson III is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television personality. In his career, he has released more than forty studio albums, and has reached Number One on the country charts seven times: "Mama Sang a Song" , "Still" , "I Get the Fever" , "For Loving You" , "My Life " , "World of Make Believe" , and "...
  • Danny Dill
    Danny Dill

    Horace Eldred Dill professionally known as Danny Dill was an United States country music songwriter. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975....
  • Eddie Miller
    Eddie Miller (songwriter)

    Edward Monroe "Eddie" Miller was an United States songwriter, in the country music genre.He was born in Camargo, Oklahoma and worked as a locomotive engineer before becoming a songwriter....
  • Marty Robbins
    Marty Robbins

    Martin David Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.One of the most popular and successful United States Country music singers of his era, Robbins' songs were often eclectic, touching notably on an array of world music....
  • Wayne Walker
    Wayne Walker

    Wayne Harrison Walker is a former Professional sports American football player and Sportscaster. He played outside linebacker for the Detroit Lions for fifteen seasons from 1958 NFL season-1972 NFL season....
  • Marijohn Wilkin
    Marijohn Wilkin

    Marijohn Wilkin , nee Melson, was an United States songwriter, famous in the Country Music genre for writing a number of hits. Wilkin won numerous awards over the years and was referred to as "The Den Mother of Music Row," as chronicled in her 1978 biography from Word Books--Lord, Let Me Leave a Song ....


1976

  • Carl Belew
  • Dallas Frazier
    Dallas Frazier

    Dallas Frazier is an United States country musician and songwriter. Frazier was born in Oklahoma but raised in Bakersfield, California. As a teenager, he played with Ferlin Husky and on the program Hometown Jamboree, and released his first single, "Space Command", at the age of fourteen in 1954....
  • John D. Loudermilk
    John D. Loudermilk

    John D. Loudermilk is an United States singer and songwriter....
  • Moon Mullican
    Moon Mullican

    Aubrey Wilson Mullican , known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues....
  • Curly Putman
    Curly Putman

    Claude "Curly" Putman Jr. is an American songwriter, based in Nashville. His biggest success was "Green Green Grass of Home" , which was covered by Elvis Presley, Johnny Darrell, Gram Parsons, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roberto Leal, Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, Joe Tex and Tom Jones ....
  • Mel Tillis
    Mel Tillis

    Mel Tillis is an United States of America country music singer. Although he had been recording songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the '70s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....


1977

  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Woody Guthrie
    Woody Guthrie

    Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an United States singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, Traditional music and children's songs, ballads and improvised works....
  • Merle Haggard
    Merle Haggard

    Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
  • Kris Kristofferson
    Kris Kristofferson

    Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....


1978

  • Joe Allison
    Joe Allison

    Joe Marion Allison was an United States Hall of Fame songwriter, a radio and television personality, a record producer, and a country music business executive....
  • Tom T. Hall
    Tom T. Hall

    Tom T. Hall is an United States country music, songwriter, and country singer. He has written 11 #1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the pop crossover hit "I Love", which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  • Hank Snow
    Hank Snow

    Clarence Eugene Snow was a Canadian country music artist. In his career, he charted more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980....
  • Don Wayne
    Don Wayne

    Don Wayne is a designer and consultant who has developed illusions for some of the world's most famous magicians. He has also created and marketed smaller illusions used by many professional performers....


1979

  • Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey
  • Charles Louvin
  • Ira Louvin
    Ira Louvin

    Ira Louvin was an American country music singer, mandolinist and songwriting. He was a cousin of John D. Loudermilk.Ira and his brother, Charlie Louvin, played together in the close harmony tradition as the Louvin Brothers....
  • Elsie McWilliams
  • Joe South
    Joe South

    Joe South is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter with a distinctive guitar sound....


1980

  • Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
  • Mickey Newbury
    Mickey Newbury

    Mickey Newbury was an United States songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, a critically acclaimed recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame....
  • Ben Peters
  • Ray Stevens
    Ray Stevens

    Ray Stevens is an United States country music and pop music singer-songwriter known for his novelty songs as well as more serious works. He was born in Clarkdale, Georgia, Georgia , a small town west of Atlanta, Georgia....


1981

  • Bobby Braddock
    Bobby Braddock

    Robert Valentine Braddock is an American country music songwriter and record producer. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Braddock has contributed numerous hit songs during more than 40 years in the industry, including 13 number-one hit singles....
  • Ray Whitley
    Ray Whitley

    Raymond Otis Whitley , also known as Ray Whitley, was a Country music and Western music singer, radio and Hollywood movie star....


1982

  • Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry

    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  • William J. "Billy" Hill
  • Loretta Lynn
    Loretta Lynn

    Loretta Lynn is an United States country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and 1970s and is revered as a country icon....


1983

  • W.C. Handy
  • Beasley Smith


1984

  • Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
  • Billy Sherrill
    Billy Sherrill

    Billy Sherrill was a record producer and arranger who is most famous for his association with a number of country artists, most notably Tammy Wynette....


1985

  • Bob McDill
    Bob McDill

    Robert Lee McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000 in country music, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits....
  • Carl Perkins
    Carl Perkins

    Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....


1986

  • Otis Blackwell
    Otis Blackwell

    Otis Blackwell was an United States songwriter, singer, and pianist whose work significantly influenced Rock and roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's "Fever ", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender " , and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man"....
  • Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....


1987

  • Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  • Sonny Throckmorton
    Sonny Throckmorton

    James Fron Throckmorton is an American country music singer and songwriter. Known primarily for his songwriting, Throckmorton has had more than 1000 of his songs recorded by various country singers....


1988

  • Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
  • Troy Seals
    Troy Seals

    Troy Seals is an United States singer, songwriter, and guitarist.He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Brady Seals ....


1989

  • Rory Michael Bourke
  • Maggie Cavender
  • Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer
    Sanger D. Shafer

    Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer is an American country music songwriter and musician. He wrote numerous hits for stars such as George Jones, Lefty Frizzell, and George Strait....


1990

  • Sue Brewer
  • Ted Harris
    Ted Harris

    Ted Harris can refer to:*Ted Harris , professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League*Ted Harris , songwriter in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  • Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb

    Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away ," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston ," and "MacArthur Park "....


1991

  • Charlie Black
  • Sonny Curtis
    Sonny Curtis

    Sonny Curtis is an American singer and songwriter. Most of his work falls into the Pop and Country genres. He was a teenage pal and band member with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, Texas....


1992

  • Max D. Barnes
  • Wayland Holyfield
    Wayland Holyfield

    Wayland D. Holyfield, , is a prominent United States songwriter and leader in the songwriting community....


1993

  • Red Lane
  • Don Schlitz
    Don Schlitz

    Don Schlitz is an award-winning country music songwriter. For his songwriting efforts, Schlitz has earned two Grammys, as well as four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards....
  • Conway Twitty
    Conway Twitty

    Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....


1994

  • Jerry Foster (as Foster & Rice)
  • Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly

    Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  • Richard Leigh
    Richard Leigh (songwriter)

    Richard Leigh is an United States country music songwriter and singer. He is best known for penning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" . In 1978 he received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Song" for the popular song....
  • Bill Rice (as Foster & Rice)
  • Bobby Russell
    Bobby Russell

    Bobby Russell was an United States songwriter....


1995

  • Waylon Jennings
    Waylon Jennings

    Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
  • Dickey Lee
    Dickey Lee

    Royden Dickey Lipscomb , known professionally as Dickey Lee , is an United States pop music/country music singer and songwriter, best known for the 1960s teenage tragedy songs "Patches" and "Laurie ."...
  • Dave Loggins
    Dave Loggins

    David Allen "Dave" Loggins is a singer, songwriter and musician. He is remembered as a one hit wonder for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-ten hit in the U.S....


1996

  • Jerry Chesnut
    Jerry Chesnut

    Jerry Donald Chesnut is an American country music songwriter. His hits include "A Good Year for the Roses" and "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" .Born and raised in Harlan County, Kentucky he moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1958 to pursue his career....
  • Kenny O'Dell
    Kenny O'Dell

    Kenny O'Dell is an United States country music singer and songwriter.Early in his career he worked with guitar legand,Duane Eddy,and his own band,Guys and Dolls....
  • Buck Owens
    Buck Owens

    Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr., was an United States singer and guitarist, who had 21 number-one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts, with his legendary band, the Buckaroos....
  • Norro Wilson
    Norro Wilson

    Norris "Norro" Wilson is an United States country music singer, songwriter and record producer, and member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame....


1997

  • Wayne Carson
    Wayne Carson

    Wayne Carson Thompson is an American country music musician and two-time Grammy award winner. He is a songwriter, producer and plays percussion, piano, guitar, and bass....
  • Roger Cook
    Roger Cook

    Roger Cook may be:* Roger Cook , British* Roger Cook , New Zealand investigative journalist, best known in the UK* Roger Cook * Roger Cook , American artist...
  • Hank Thompson


1998

  • Merle Kilgore
    Merle Kilgore

    Wyatt Merle Kilgore was an United States singer, songwriter, and Talent manager....
  • Eddie Rabbitt
    Eddie Rabbitt

    Edward Thomas Rabbitt was a country music singer. He enjoyed much pop success in his career, helping develop the Crossover -influenced sound in country music during the 1970s and 80s....
  • Kent Robbins
    Kent Robbins

    Kent Robbins was an United States country music songwriter. He began writing for Charley Pride's Pi-Gem music in 1974. Between then and his death, he wrote songs for several other country music artists....


1999

  • Tommy Collins
    Tommy Collins

    Tommy Collins sometimes referred to as Tom Collins M.A. Dublin City University is an Ireland filmmaker....
  • Wayne Kemp
  • A.L. "Doodle" Owens
  • Glenn Sutton
    Glenn Sutton

    Glenn Sutton was a country music songwriter and producer. Born Royce Glenn Sutton in Hodge, Louisiana, he was one of the two chief architects of the countrypolitan sound ....


2000

  • Mac Davis
    Mac Davis

    Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis , is a country music singer and songwriter originally from Lubbock, Texas, Texas who has enjoyed much pop music Crossover success....
  • Randy Goodrum
    Randy Goodrum

    Randy Goodrum is an United States songwriter. Goodrum has written numerous popular songs, including Anne Murray's #1 hit "You Needed Me" and "Broken Hearted Me" , Michael Johnson 's "Bluer Than Blue" , England Dan & John Ford Coley's "It's Sad To Belong" , Steve Perry 's "Oh Sherrie" , DeBarge's "Who's Holding Donna Now", cowritten with Da...
  • Allen Reynolds
    Allen Reynolds

    Allen Reynolds is a record producer and songwriter.Reynolds was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas and started writing songs during his college years....
  • Billy Edd Wheeler
    Billy Edd Wheeler

    Billy Edward "Edd" Wheeler is an United States songwriter, performer, writer and visual artist. He has written songs performed by over 90 different artists including Judy Collins, Bobby Darin, The Kingston Trio, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Kenny Rogers, and Elvis Presley....


2001

  • Don Everly
  • Phil Everly
  • Dennis Linde
    Dennis Linde

    Dennis Linde was an American singer and songwriter whose work was primarily in country music.Although he is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love", Dennis Linde wrote numerous hit songs for mainly country music singers, beginning with hits for Roger Miller and Roy Drusky in 1970....
  • Johnny Russell
    Johnny Russell

    John Bright "Johnny" Russell was an United States country music singer, songwriter, and comedian famous for his song Act Naturally, which was made famous by Buck Owens, who recorded it in 1963, and The Beatles in 1965....


2002

  • Dean Dillon
    Dean Dillon

    Dean Dillon is an American country music artist. Between 1982 and 1993, Dillon recorded six studio album on various labels, and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts....
  • Bob Dylan
  • Shel Silverstein
    Shel Silverstein

    Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein was an United States poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books....


2003

  • Hal Blair
  • Rodney Crowell
    Rodney Crowell

    Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby....
  • Paul Overstreet
    Paul Overstreet

    Paul Overstreet is a country music singer and songwriter. He recorded ten studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, including two Number One hits....
  • John Prine
    John Prine

    John Prine is an United States country music/folk music singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s....


2004

  • Guy Clark
    Guy Clark

    Guy Clark is an influential United States songwriter and country musician....
  • Freddie Hart
    Freddie Hart (musician)

    Freddie Hart is an United States country musician and songwriter. He is best known for his chart-topper song "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award two years in a row, in 1971 and 1972....
  • Dennis Morgan
    Dennis Morgan

    Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer.In 1945, he played the part of Jefferson Jones in the holiday classic Christmas in Connecticut opposite Barbara Stanwyck....
  • Billy Joe Shaver
    Billy Joe Shaver

    Billy Joe Shaver is an United States of America country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is a classic in the outlaw country genre....


2005

  • Gary Burr
    Gary Burr

    Gary Burr, born in Meriden, Connecticut, is an United States musician and songwriter, mostly known for his stable of hits recorded by Country music performers....
  • Vince Gill
    Vince Gill

    Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an United States neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in hig...
  • Roger Murrah
    Roger Murrah

    Roger Murrah is a songwriter and music publisher who has written hits for artists including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Alabama ....
  • Jerry Reed
    Jerry Reed

    Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an United States country music singer, country guitarist, session musician, songwriter, and actor who appeared in over a dozen films....
  • Mike Reid


2006

  • Jimmy Buffett
    Jimmy Buffett

    James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
  • Hugh Prestwood
    Hugh Prestwood

    Hugh Prestwood is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in country music. His first hit as a songwriter was "Hard Time for Lovers", which was recorded in 1978 by Judy Collins....
  • Jim Weatherly
    Jim Weatherly

    Jim Weatherly is an United States singer-songwriter. Weatherly played quarterback at the University of Mississippi and was an All-American before choosing songwriting over a football career....


2007

  • Bob DiPiero
    Bob DiPiero

    Bob DiPiero is an award-winning United States country music songwriter who has written several songs for country music artists; among his first was The Oak Ridge Boys' Number One hit "American Made"....
  • Mac McAnally
    Mac McAnally

    Lyman Corbitt McAnally, Jr. is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician and record producer. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums....
  • Flatt & Scruggs
  • Dottie Rambo
    Dottie Rambo

    Dottie Rambo was an United States Southern Gospel singer, songwriter, and musician. Rambo was both a Grammy and Dove award winning artist. She penned more than twenty-five hundred songs, including her most notable He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need and I Go To the Rock....
  • Hank Williams, Jr.
    Hank Williams, Jr.

    Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....


2008

  • Matraca Berg
    Matraca Berg

    Matraca Berg is a respected American country music singer-songwriter who has penned numerous hits for other artists, in addition to releasing her own albums....
  • John Hiatt
    John Hiatt

    John Hiatt is an United States rock and roll guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave music, blues and country music....
  • Tom Shapiro
    Tom Shapiro

    Tom Shapiro is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International....
  • The Reach
    The Reach

    The Reach is a short story by Stephen King. First published in Yankee Magazine in 1981 under the title "Do the Dead Sing?", the re-titled story was collected in Skeleton Crew in 1985....


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