Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame
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2000 - 2009

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame began in 1970 as an enterprise of the fledgling Nashville Songwriters Association. A credentials committee unanimously selected a charter class of 21 writers, who were inducted on Monday, October 12, during the first Hall of Fame Banquet and Ceremony held at the Holiday Inn-Vanderbilt. 

Sixteen years later, the Hall of Fame split from the songwriters association to form its own entity. The International Songwriters Foundation (ISF) was chartered on April 11, 1986, as a new organization to oversee the Hall of Fame. On March 2, 1992, the ISF changed its name to the Nashville Songwriters Foundation (NSF), then on Dec. 5, 2006, to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation (NaSHOF).

Throughout its 40-plus years of existence, the Hall of Fame remained a virtual entity with no permanent location to call home until May 19, 2013, when NaSHOF realized a decades-long dream with the opening of its Hall of Fame Gallery inside the newly constructed Music City Center (MCC), Nashville’s 1.2 million-square-foot convention center. Located in downtown Nashville (directly across the street from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Bridgestone Arena) the gallery features displays of songwriting memorabilia, as well as interactive touch screens that allow visitors to access audio, video and other digital information about the history of Nashville songwriting and members of the Hall of Fame. 

 To find out more about each member, click  on their name to be taken to their official page in the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame website. 
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2000 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Mac Davis	January 21, 1942	September 29, 2020		Lubbock, Texas
Randy Goodrum	July 7, 1947			Hot Springs, Arkansas
Allen Reynolds	August 18, 1938			North Little Rock, Arkansas
Billy Edd Wheeler	December 9, 1932			Whitesville, West Virginia

2001 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Don Everly [Everly Brothers]	February 1, 1937	August 21, 2021		Brownie, Kentucky
Phil Everly [Everly Brothers]	January 19, 1939	January 3, 2014		Chicago, Illinois
Dennis Linde	March 18, 1943	December 22, 2006		Abilene, Texas
Johnny Russell	January 23, 1940	July 3, 2001		Moorhead, Mississippi

2002 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Dean Dillon	March 26, 1955			Lake City, Tennessee
Bob Dylan	May 24, 1941			Duluth, Minnesota
Shel Silverstein	September 25, 1930	May 10, 1999		Chicago, Illinois

2003 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Hal Blair	November 26, 1915	February 2, 2001		Kansas City, Missouri
Rodney Crowell	August 7, 1950			Houston, Texas
Paul Overstreet	March 17, 1955			Newton, Mississippi
John Prine	October 10, 1946	April 2, 2020		Maywood, Illinois

2004 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Guy Clark	November 6, 1941	May 17, 2016		Monahans, Texas
Freddie Hart	December 21, 1926	October 27, 2018		Loachapoka, Alabama
Dennis Morgan	July 30, 1952			Tracy, Minnesota
Billy Joe Shaver	August 16, 1939			Corsicana, Texas

2005 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Gary Burr	February 26, 1952			Meridan, Connecticutt
Vince Gill	April 12, 1957			Norman, Oklahoma
Roger Murrah	November 20, 1946			Athens, Alabama
Jerry Reed	March 20, 1937	September 1, 2008		Atlanta, Georgia
Mike Reid	May 24, 1947			Altoona, Pennsylvania

2006 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Jimmy Buffett	December 25, 1946			Pascagoula, Mississippi
Hugh Prestwood	April 2, 1942			El Paso, Texas
Jim Weatherly	March 17, 1943	February 3, 2021		Pontotoc, Mississippi

2007 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Bob DiPiero	March 3, 1951			Youngstown, Ohio
Lester Flatt [Flatt & Scruggs]	June 9, 1914	May 11, 1979		Duncan's Chapel, Tennessee
Mac McAnally	July 5, 1957			Red Bay, Alabama
Dottie Rambo	March 2, 1934	May 11, 2008		Madisonville, Kentucky
Earl Scruggs [Flatt & Scruggs]	January 6, 1924	March 28, 2012		Flint Hill, North Carolina
Hank Williams, Jr.	May 26, 1949			Shreveport, Louisiana

2008 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Matraca Berg	February 3, 1961			Nashville, Tennessee
John Hiatt	August 20, 1952			Indianapolis, Indiana
Tom Shapiro	May 18, 1950			Kansas City, Missouri

2009 Inductees

	Born	Died		Hometown
Kye Fleming	October 9, 1951			Pensacola, Florida
Mark D. Sanders	September 7, 1950			Los Angeles, California
Tammy Wynette	May 5, 1942	April 6, 1998		Itawamba County, Mississippi

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