Tuesday, August 20, 2024, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum celebrated the addition of the Marty Stuart Collection to the Museum's permanent holdings. Stuart's collection of more than 22,000 items is the largest private assemblage of country music artifacts in the world, joining the worl...

Learn about the life and music of Marty Stuart, a recording artist, songwriter, multimedia emissary for country music, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Beginning his music career as a teen, Marty Stuart has spent decades making musical history, often alongside those he calls country...

Learn about the life and music of Hank Williams Jr., who, like his famous father, created a distinctive and influential sound, wrote enduring, widely loved songs, and became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Beginning his career at age eight, Hank Jr. initially performed and recorded ...

Learn about Dean Dillon, a Country Music Hall of Fame member and influential songwriter who composed hits for George Strait, Vern Gosdin, Pam Tillis, Kenny Chesney, Keith Whitley, and other singers.

Among the many significant and memorable songs Dillon wrote or co-wrote: George Strait's “The Cha...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum hosts an interview with Reba McEntire around the 2013 opening of the exhibition "Reba: All the Women I Am."

Like the exhibition, the nearly ninety-minute interview with Reba McEntire traces decades of her life and career, from her upbringing in Chockie, ...

Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, photographer, historian, and five-time Grammy winner Marty Stuart sits down with Scott Goldman—vice president of the GRAMMY Foundation and the MusiCares Foundation—to discuss his life and career during the 2014 Americana Fest.

Over the course of the nea...

A panel of Alan Jackson's collaborators and friends—including record label executives Tim DuBois and Mike Dungan, songwriter Jim McBride, and longtime bandmates Danny Groah and Roger Wills—come together to discuss the Country Music Hall of Fame member's rise during this 2015 program at the Countr...

Country Music Hall of Fame member Emmylou Harris joins the Museum's Peter Cooper on stage at the CMA Theater to discuss her musical development, from childhood up through her partnership with Gram Parsons and the decades of solo success that followed. The November 3, 2018, program also includes s...

Country Music Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson explores his exhibition, "Bill Anderson: As Far as I Can See," for the first time, and friends and collaborators Vince Gill, Carly Pearce, Jon Randall, and Trisha Yearwood perform to help him celebrate the milestone.

"They titled this exhibit 'As F...

Vince Gill shares the backstory of one of Roy Acuff's primary fiddles — how Acuff acquired it, how he treasured it, how the instrument came to Gill, and why he chose to donate it to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's permanent collection in 2021.

The fiddle—a copy of the highly prized v...

Dean Dillon—one of the most successful and influential songwriters in country music, and a major source of hits for Country Music Hall of Fame member George Strait—talks about his career during a 2008 “Poets and Prophets” interview at the Museum, augmented by live performances, video and audio cl...

Alabama band mates Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, and Randy Owen join the Museum's Michael Gray at the CMA Theater to discuss their genre-broadening, record-setting career, and the path that led to Alabama’s 2005 election to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

During the 2016 program, the founding Alabam...

Ronnie Milsap remembers his experiences growing up in North Carolina and his winding path to Nashville during this interview, recorded February 7, 2015, to coincide with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition “Ronnie Milsap: A Legend in My Time.”

Raised in a loving environment by ...

Hank Williams Jr. visits the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to perform and answer questions about his life and career, his father’s legacy, and his family’s ongoing dedication to creative endeavors.

Recorded on March 29, 2008, the live program was held to mark the opening of the Museum’s ...

In an interview for the Museum’s Poets & Prophets series, Bill Anderson, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, talks about his approach to songwriting, his formative years, some of his biggest hits as a songwriter (many recorded by other artists), and his comeback as a songwriter beginning ...