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new class also includes Steve Bogard and Tony Martin in the
contemporary songwriter category, Jim Lauderdale in the
contemporary songwriter/artist category and Don Cook in the
veteran songwriter category. They will be formally inducted on
Oct. 6 during the 55th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of
Fame Gala held at the Music City Center.
Paisley, a three-time Grammy-winning country music superstar
with a whopping 41 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, is known for
writing many of his own hits. Those include “He Didn’t Have To
Be,” “Alcohol,” “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song),” “Letter
To Me,” and “Remind Me” a duet with Carrie Underwood.
Harris, one of the great American folk singer-songwriters, with
13 Grammys to her name, is known for such hits like “Boulder To
Birmingham,” “White Line” and “Heartbreak Hill.” She was
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
Bogard is known for radio staples like George Strait's “Carried
Away,” Rascal Flatts' “Prayin’ For Daylight” and Dierks
Bentley's “Every Mile A Memory.”
Martin also wrote for Strait — “Baby’s Gotten Good At Goodbye” —
as well as Jason Aldean (“A Little More Summertime”) and Keith
Urban (“You Look Good In My Shirt”). Urban himself was recently
inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2023.
Lauderdale is known for his own songs, like “I Feel Like Singing
Today,” “She’s Looking At Me” and “Mighty Lonesome,” but also
those he wrote for others, like Mark Chesnutt's “Gonna Get A
Life” and Patty Loveless' “Halfway Down.”
Cook is notable for T. Graham Brown's “I Wish That I Could Hurt
That Way Again,” Steve Wariner's “Small Town Girl” and Brooks &
Dunn's “Only In America.”
The chair of the organization’s board of directors, Rich
Hallworth, and Mark Ford, its executive director, made the
announcement at Nashville’s historic Columbia Studio A.
“Gathering as we do each year — to reveal and welcome the
members of our incoming class — is truly one of the highlights
of our calendar,” Hallworth said in a statement. “To these
outstanding songwriters, we say — thank you for sharing your
songs and your artistry with us.”
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