The Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame Inducts Six

Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame (Photo: Bev Moser)

The NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME (NaSHOF) inducted three songwriters and two artist-songwriters at last night's ceremony (10/14) at NASHVILLE's MUSIC CITY CENTER during the organization's 49th anniversary gala. As previously reported, the inductees included: LARRY GATLIN, DWIGHT YOAKAM, MARCUS HUMMON, KOSTAS, RIVERS RUTHERFORD and SHARON VAUGHN (NET NEWS 8/7). The program also paid tribute to the late NaSHOF member and longtime ASCAP executive RALPH MURPHY (NET NEWS 9/19).

Some of the performance highlights from the evening included Country artist-songwriters BRANDY CLARK and JEFFREY STEELE, who each performed songs for YOAKAM. HUMMON was given a performance of his hit, "Born To Fly," by SARA EVANS, who made it a hit. RUTHERFORD was honored by Country duo BROOKS & DUNN with the songs of his they had hits with. VAUGHN was given a serenade of her song, "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys," from GARTH BROOKS. And VINCE GILL joined STEVE and RUDY GATLIN of the GATLIN BROTHERS to perform the song "I've Done Enough Dyin' Today" for their brother, inductee LARRY GATLIN. THE OAK RIDGE BOYS closed the evening with a performance of GATLIN's “All The Gold In California.”

Other performers included JOHN RICH, HOLLY WILLIAMS, PARKER MILLSAP, DARRELL SCOTT, LEVI HUMMON, JEFF HANNA, MATRACA BERG,  BRETT JAMES, HILLARY LINDSEY, and THE ISAACS.

Find more information on the NaSHOF here.

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