Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame
2010 - 2019
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.
NOTE: If viewing on mobile device, swipe left to see Inductees hometown and other information.
NOTE: If viewing on mobile device, swipe left to see Inductees hometown and other information.
2010 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Pat Alger | September 23, 1947 | Long Island City, New York | ||
Steve Cropper | October 21, 1941 | Willow Springs, Missouri | ||
Paul Davis | April 21, 1948 | April 22, 2008 | Meridian, Mississippi | |
Stephen Foster | July 4, 1826 | January 13, 1864 | Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania |
2011 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
John Bettis | October 24, 1946 | Long Beach, California | ||
Garth Brooks | February 7, 1962 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | ||
Alan Jackson | October 17, 1958 | Newnan, Georgia | ||
Thom Schuyler | June 10, 1952 | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | ||
Allen Shamblin | May 13, 1959 | Cleveland, Tennessee |
2012 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Tony Arata | October 10, 1957 | Savannah, Georgia | ||
Mary Chapin Carpenter | February 21, 1958 | Princeton, New Jersey | ||
Larry Henley | June 30, 1937 | December 18, 2014 | Arp, Texas | |
Kim Williams | June 28, 1947 | February 11, 2016 | Kingsport, Tennessee |
2013 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Will Jennings | June 27, 1944 | Kilgore, Texas | ||
Layng Martine Jr. | March 24, 1942 | New York, New York | ||
Randy Owen | December 13, 1949 | Fort Payne, Alabama | ||
Jeffrey Steele | August 27, 1961 | Burbank, California |
2014 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
John Anderson | December 13, 1954 | Apopka, Florida | ||
Paul Craft | August 12, 1938 | October 18, 2024 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
Tom Douglas | January 27, 1953 | Atlanta, Georgia | ||
Gretchen Peters | November 14, 1957 | Bronxville, New York |
2015 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Rosanne Cash | May 24, 1955 | Memphis, Tennessee | ||
Mark James | November 29, 1940 | Houston, Texas | ||
Even Stevens | Cincinatti, Ohio | |||
Craig Wiseman | August 4, 1963 | Selma, Alabama |
2016 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Aaron Barker | March 5, 1953 | San Antonio, Texas | ||
Beth Nielsen Chapman | September 14, 1956 | Harlington, Texas | ||
Bob Morrison | August 6, 1942 | Biloxi, Mississippi | ||
Townes Van Zandt | March 7, 1944 | January 1, 1997 | Fort Worth, Texas |
2017 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Walt Aldridge | November 12, 1955 | Florence, Alabama | ||
Dewayne Blackwell | September 17, 1936 | May 23, 2021 | Corpus Christi, Texas | |
Vern Gosdin | August 5, 1934 | April 28, 2009 | Woodland, Alabama | |
Jim McBride | April 28, 1947 | Huntsville, Alabama | ||
Tim Nichols | August 4, 1958 | Portsmouth, Virginia |
2018 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Ronnie Dunn | June 1, 1953 | Coleman, Texas | ||
Byron Hill | December 12, 1953 | Atlanta, Georgia | ||
Wayne Kirkpatrick | August 31, 1961 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | ||
Joe Melson | May 11, 1935 | Bonham, Texas | ||
K.T. Oslin | May 15, 1942 | December 21, 2020 | Crossett, Arkansas |
2019 Inductees
Born | Died | Hometown | ||
Larry Gatlin | May 2, 1948 | Seminole, Texas | ||
Marcus Hummon | December 28, 1960 | Washington, D.C. | ||
Kostas | April 14, 1949 | Thessaloniki, Greece | ||
Rivers Rutherford | June 17, 1967 | Memphis, Tennessee | ||
Sharon Vaughn | May 2, 1947 | Orlando, Florida | ||
Dwight Yoakam | October 23, 1956 | Pikeville, Kentucky |