The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame has revealed the 12 songcrafters who’re the nominees for the category of 2025.
Within the up to date songwriters class, this 12 months’s nominees are Steve Bogard, Shawn Camp, Don Henry, Gordon Kennedy, Tony Martin, Aimee Mayo, Jim Speeding and Darrell Scott. The nominees for the up to date songwriter/artists class are Jim Lauderdale, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Lucinda Williams and CeCe Winans.
The Fifty fifth-anniversary Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Fame Gala will likely be held Monday, Oct. 6, at Nashville’s Music Metropolis Middle.
“Nicely-deserved congratulations to all of the nominees in our up to date classes,” Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Fame government director Mark Ford mentioned in an announcement. “We glance ahead in a number of weeks to asserting those that will likely be inducted this fall as members of our Class of 2025.”
Every of the nominees earned their first vital songs no less than 20 years in the past. A complete of two songwriters and one songwriter/artist will likely be elected within the up to date classes by members of the Corridor of Fame, together with different skilled songwriters and artists who’re prominently related to Nashville, or who’ve written/co-written no less than one unique and vital Nashville track. Three extra songwriters can even be named to the Class of 2025, as a separate physique of veteran voters will elect a veteran songwriter, veteran songwriter/artist and legacy songwriter (honoring a deceased songwriter), every of whom have earned their first vital songs no less than three a long time in the past (nominees in these classes aren’t introduced).
Bogard is thought for writing songs together with Marty Robbins’ “Contact Me With Magic,” George Strait’s “Carrying Your Love With Me,” Rascal Flatts’ “Prayin’ For Daylight” and Dierks Bentley’s “Lengthy Journey Alone” and “Each Mile a Reminiscence.”
Camp’s writing catalog consists of Brooks & Dunn’s “How Lengthy Gone,” Garth Brooks’s “Two Pina Coladas,” Josh Turner’s “Would You Go With Me” and “Firecracker,” Blake Shelton’s “No one However Me,” Strait’s “River of Love,” the Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder bluegrass hit “Sis Draper,” Billy Strings’s “Don’t Be Calling Me (at 4 AM),” and Willie Nelson’s “A Lovely Time.”
Henry’s writing credit embody “Class Reunion” (recorded by artists together with John Conlee, The Oak Ridge Boys and Ray Charles), “Blue Freeway” (T.G. Sheppard and Conlee), “All Sorts of Varieties” (Miranda Lambert) and the Grammy/CMA/ACM award winner “The place’ve You Been” (Kathy Mattea).
Kennedy is called a author on songs together with the Grammy-winning “Change The World” (recorded by Wynonna after which by Eric Clapton). Kennedy additionally has greater than a dozen songs recorded by Garth Brooks, together with “You Transfer Me” and “Love Will All the time Win” (with Trisha Yearwood), in addition to songs recorded by Ricky Skaggs (“Return to Sender”) and Bonnie Raitt (“I Can’t Assist You Now”). Gordon additionally co-wrote songs together with his frequent writing collaborator Peter Frampton on songs for Frampton’s 2007 album Fingerprints. Gordon’s songs have been additionally included within the Disney film The Fox and the Hound 2.
Martin is thought for songs such because the Strait-recorded “Child’s Gotten Good at Goodbye,” Rascal Flatts’ “Banjo,” Lee Ann Womack’s “I’ll Consider a Motive Later,” Tim McGraw’s “Simply to See You Smile,” Sara Evans’s “No Place That Far,” Joe Diffie’s “Third Rock From the Solar,” “Keith City’s “You Look Good in My Shirt,” Josh Turner’s “Time Is Love” and Dierks Bentley’s “Settle For a Sluggish Down.”
Mayo’s catalog of songs consists of hits recorded by Tim McGraw (“My Greatest Good friend”), Mark Wills (“Locations I’ve By no means Been”), and Lonestar (“Amazed,” which gained the ACM’s track and single of the 12 months and was nominated for a Grammy). Mayo was named BMI’s 2001 Nation Songwriter of the Yr. Different songs she’s contributed writing to are the Religion Hill/Tim McGraw traditional “Let’s Make Love,” Martina McBride’s “This One’s For The Women,” and Kenny Chesney’s “Bar on the Finish of the World” and “Who You’d Be Right now.” Mayo is writer of the memoir Speaking to the Sky.
Speeding is thought for contributing writing to songs together with Charley Pleasure’s “Hope You’re Feelin’ Me (Like I’m Feelin’ You),” Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s 1993 IBMA track of the 12 months winner “Little Mountain Church Home,” Ricky Skaggs’ “Canjun Moon” and “Thanks Once more,” Garth Brooks’ “American Honky-Tonk Bar Affiliation,” and the 1993 IBMA track of the 12 months winner “Lonesome Commonplace Time,” (additionally a success for Kathy Mattea).
Scott’s catalog of hits consists of songs recorded by Travis Tritt (“It’s a Nice Day to Be Alive”), Sara Evans (“Born to Fly”), The Chicks (“Lengthy Time Gone”), Patty Loveless (“You’ll By no means Go away Harlan Alive”), Darin & Brooke Aldridge (“Cumberland Plateau”), Blue Freeway (“Bleeding For a Little Piece of Thoughts”) and the Zac Brown Band/Chris Cornell collaboration “Heavy Is The Head.” Scott was named the 2000-2001 NSAI songwriter of the 12 months and the 2002 ASCAP nation songwriter of the 12 months.
Within the Nineteen Nineties, Lauderdale noticed his songs recorded by artists together with Mark Chesnutt (“Gonna Get a Life”), Patty Loveless (“Midway Down,” in addition to Loveless’ George Jones collaboration “You Don’t Appear to Miss Me”), and the Strait-recorded hits “We Actually Shouldn’t Be Doing This” and “What Do You Say to That.” Within the Americana realm, Lauderdale has launched 37 albums and gained two Grammy accolades for bluegrass album of the 12 months (for Misplaced within the Lonesome Pines and The Bluegrass Diaries), in addition to incomes bluegrass hits together with “Mighty Lonesome” and “One Blue Mule.” Lauderdale was honored with the Americana Music Affiliation’s lifetime achievement award in 2016.
Welch and Rawlings have shared a musical and songwriting partnership that goes again no less than three a long time. Since their debut undertaking in 1996, the 2 have launched songs in a wide range of genres, together with “Orphan Woman,” “Elvis Presley Blues” and “455 Rocket” (which additionally turned a success for Mattea), and “Tear My Stillhouse Down” (which turned a bluegrass hit for The Nashville Bluegrass Band). Dailey & Vincent recorded a model of “By The Mark,” which was named the 2009 SPBGMA (Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America) bluegrass track of the 12 months. “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” was recorded by Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Nelson for the movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and was nominated for an Oscar for greatest unique track. Welch and Rawlings acquired the AMA’s lifetime achievement award for songwriters in 2015.
Williams earned her breakthrough hit with “Modified the Locks” in 1988, which reached No. 16 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart and have become a success for Tom Petty almost a decade later. Williams’ “Passionate Kisses” additionally turned a prime 5 Nation Airplay hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1993, and earned Williams a Grammy for greatest nation track. She additionally earned Americana Music Honors and Awards nominations for songs together with “Are You Alright?” and “East Aspect of City.” She earned the 2011 Americana Music Honors & Awards lifetime achievement award for songwriting and earned a BMI troubadour award in 2022. Williams was inducted into the Austin Metropolis Limits Corridor of Fame in 2021.
Winans began out as a part of the luminous gospel music group the Winans Household, earlier than becoming a member of musical forces along with her brother BeBe Winans to kind a duo. Their track “Addictive Love,” co-written by CeCe, earned a GMA Dove Award for up to date Gospel track of the 12 months in 1992. In 1995, Winans launched her solo profession. Her track “Hallelujah Reward” gained a 2004 GMA Dove Award for up to date Gospel track of the 12 months, whereas in 2009 she was nominated for a Dove Award for “Waging Warfare.” In 2021, her track “Consider For It” gained a Grammy for greatest up to date Christian efficiency/track and the 2022 GMA Dove Award for track of the 12 months. Winans has additionally written songs together with “Let Them Fall In Love,” “Pray,” “Say A Prayer,” “Slippin’,” and “Nicely Alright.” Winans was inducted into the 2015 Gospel Music Corridor of Fame in 2015, and has stars on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame and Music Metropolis Stroll of Fame.