Acclaimed songwriter Hillary Lindsey shares stories from her career and performs some of her biggest hits as part of the Museum's Poets and Prophets series, which honors songwriters who have made notable contributions to country music. The Museum’s Angela Stefano Zimmer moderates the program, recorded live on October 26, 2024.

During this program, Lindsey performs the Grammy-winning #1 country single “Jesus, Take the Wheel”—one of more than four dozen of Lindsey’s compositions recorded by Carrie Underwood—as well as the Country Music Association- and Grammy-winning Little Big Town #1 single “Girl Crush” and Parker McCollum’s country radio #1 “Burn It Down.” She discusses the Love Junkies, her creative partnership with fellow songwriters Lori McKenna and Liz Rose; memorable music video shoots; and being inducted into both the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York by Underwood and Keith Urban. Lindsey also shares her surprising path to working with Lady Gaga on a solo album; performing alongside her on “Saturday Night Live”; and writing songs for Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s 2018 adaptation of A Star Is Born, including the Grammy-winning “I’ll Never Love Again.”

Lindsey grew up in Washington, Georgia, and arrived in Nashville in 1994, after enrolling at Belmont University. She signed her first song-publishing deal as a college senior and earned her first #1 song in 2002 (Martina McBride’s “Blessed”). Lindsey is a 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee; a 2022 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee; a three-time Grammy winner; a two-time Academy of Country Music Songwriter of the Year award winner; and a Country Music Association Song of the Year award winner. The list of artists who have recorded Lindsey’s songs also includes Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Michelle Branch, Florida Georgia Line, Hardy, Tim McGraw, Kacey Musgraves, Rascal Flatts, and Taylor Swift, among others. Lindsey founded her own song-publishing company, Hang Your Hat Music, in partnership with Concord Music Publishing in 2020.

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