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‘It’s a Beautiful Thing, Writing Songs’: Inside the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony
Inside the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony, inducting David Bellamy, Tony Joe White, Liz Rose, Victoria Shaw, Al Anderson and Dan Penn.
Prior to Rose and Shaw simultaneously joining, Shania Twain and Hillary Lindsey(“Blessed,” “Jesus, Take the Wheel”) were installed in 2022, and Tammy Wynette and Kye Fleming(“Smoky Mountain Rain,” “Nobody”) were recognized in 2009. Karen Fairchild applied a spiked tone to Little Big Town ’s four-part harmony on Rose’s “Girl Crush,” Nikki Lane balanced a cutting vocal resonance against Kenny Vaughan ’s smoky guitar on White’s bluesy “Polk Salad Annie,” and Garth Brooks milked the silence between the phrases in a folky rendition of the Shaw co-writes “A Friend to Me,” “She’s Every Woman” and “The River.” John Anderson offered a greasy, driving interpretation of Bellamy’s “Redneck Girl”; Wendy Moten prefaced Penn’s induction with a dramatically dynamic version of the 1960s soul single “The Dark End of the Street”; and Vince Gill participated in Al Anderson’s segment by performing“Some Things Never Get Old,” a ballad Anderson recorded as a solo artist, with backing vocalist Carolyn Dawn Johnson and bassist Glenn Worf. White’s biggest copyright, “A Rainy Night in Georgia,” also transcended boundaries, providing soul singer Brook Benton with a classic recording and becoming a country hit for Hank Williams Jr.
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