Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame
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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. 
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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

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