Shy Carter explains how he found common ground in the storytelling of R&B, soul, and country music, and performs hits he’s written for Kane Brown, Billy Currington, Sugarland, and pop star Charlie Puth during this Songwriter Session, recorded March 9, 2019, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and M...

Carlene Carter, Shawn Colvin, Amythyst Kiah, and Maria Muldaur share a conversation with NPR’s Ann Powers, highlighting women who inspire them as musicians and taking turns performing on stage at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Held on September 12, 2019 (during that year’s AmericanaF...

Chip Taylor explains how he discovered country music while growing up in Yonkers, New York, and performs familiar favorites (including “Angel of the Morning” and “Wild Thing”) as well as material from his new album, “Whiskey Salesman,” during this July 17, 2019, Songwriter Session at the Country ...

During this 2019 program, Nashville session musician Curtis McPeake and folk singer-songwriter Andy May share stories and perform old-time and bluegrass tunes including “Leather Britches” and “Sweet Sunny South,” as part of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Musician Spotlight series.

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Jeannie Seely reflects on the “tremendous honor” of having her songs recorded by so many Country Music Hall of Fame inductees during this Songwriter Session, held and recorded at the Museum on February 23, 2019. Joined by Tim Atwood on piano, the Grand Ole Opry stalwart offers six favorites and o...

Hit songwriter Liz Rose performs compositions she had recorded by Eli Young Band, Little Big Town, Taylor Swift, and Carrie Underwood, and two originals from her debut solo album, “Swimming Alone,” during this June 20, 2018, program, part of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Songwriter ...

Mandy Barnett discusses her tribute album “I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs of Don Gibson” and sings three of Gibson’s songs and two Christmas favorites at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Guitarist Harold Bradley joins Barnett for the conversation and performance, recorded December 2...

Recording artist Teddy Robb and hit songwriter J.T. Harding swap songs and answer audience questions during this Songwriter Session, held on June 8, 2019, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, during the year’s CMA Music Festival. Along with Robb’s originals, Harding offers songs cut by K...

Author Silas House reads excerpts from his novel “Southernmost” alongside songwriter Matraca Berg, who performs five original compositions, during a Songwriter Session at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Together, they look at the portrayal of home through a Southern lens.

Berg opens t...

Eric Paslay entertains attendees of the CMA Music Festival in a solo set of insightful stories, familiar hits, and one new song at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. He also answers questions from fans about songwriting.

In this performance, the Abilene, Texas, native begins with his 201...

Doug Sahm (1941-1999) was a standard bearer for Tex-Mex music and a contemporary and friend of country’s Outlaw movement. During this September 14, 2019, program, marking twenty years since Doug Sahm’s passing, his son Shawn Sahm joins a panel discussion and leads a rousing tribute concert at the...

During this special program, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and author Rodney Crowell sits down with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Peter Cooper to discuss and perform selections from his album “Texas.”

“Surely I’ve told everything I have to say about Texas and about my upbringi...

North Carolinian singer-songwriters BJ Barham, Jonathan Byrd, and Sarah Siskind share stories and songs inspired by their home state in support of 2019’s AmericanaFest and as part of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Songwriter Sessions series.

Barham is the front man and primary songw...

Pianist and arranger Bill Pursell shares the stage with jazz vocalist Staci Griesbach for a Musician Spotlight at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, filmed on September 8, 2019. During the program, Pursell talks about recording his Top Ten 1963 instrumental single, “Our Winter Love,” and ...

Multi-instrumentalist J.D. Wilkes, best known as the front man of American roots band the Legendary Shack Shakers, performs and tells stories about his life in this edition of the Museum’s Musician Spotlight series.

Texas native Wilkes formed the Shack Shakers in Kentucky in the mid-1990s, and ...

On stage at the Ford Theater, songwriter and singer Laura Veltz talks about music, songwriting, and making a career in Nashville, and shares acoustic performances of some of the major country hits she's written.

Among the songs Veltz performs during her 2019 Songwriter Session at the Country Mus...

Multi-instrumentalist Molly Tuttle—the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Association’s guitar player of the year—performs a selection of original music and classic songs during a Musician Spotlight at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, held April 8, 2018.

Growing up in Calif...

Nashville-based, Texas-bred singer-songwriter Abby Anderson performs a selection of her music and answers audience questions during this 2019 Songwriter Session in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Ford Theater.
Anderson moved to Nashville just out of high school in 2015, and signed wit...

Bob DiPiero, Terry McBride, and Craig Wiseman—who’ve collectively written dozens of songs recorded by Brooks & Dunn and other country hit-makers—discuss and perform songs from their catalogs during a 2019 in-the-round performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

DiPiero performs an...

In this 2020 Musician Spotlight, bandleader and singer Jimmy Church—a crucial part of Nashville’s R&B community for sixty years—performs a selection of R&B classics and reminisces about a career that had him crossing paths with Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, and other legends.

A Nashv...

Delbert McClinton, three-time Grammy winner and a key figure in blues, R&B, country, and Americana music, visits the Ford Theater to talk with the Museum’s Peter Cooper about journeys in music and to sing four songs.

The Lubbock, Texas, native begins the program by talking about his way of getti...

A brother-sister musical duo from Nashville, Giri and Uma Peters specialize in bluegrass and old-time music, and despite their youth (Giri is fourteen years old here, and Uma is twelve), the two have already made significant music-career inroads.

By their early 2020 Musician Spotlight at the Co...

Keyboardist, producer, and vocalist Joseph Wooten takes the stage on January 19, 2020, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, performing original songs and a medley from his work with the Steve Miller Band, and sharing his thoughts on how music brings people together.

Wooten, an avowed Te...

In 2019, the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation acquired Cowboy Jack Clement’s 1950s Gibson SJ-200 for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s permanent collection. During this ceremony, the Museum celebrates the acquisition with the help of Clement’s friends Charley Pride, John Pri...