Amy Grant, Toby Keith & More Selected for Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Billboard 7 hrs ago Amy Grant
The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its class of 2021: Rhett Akins and Buddy Cannon in the songwriter category; John Scott Sherrill in the veteran songwriter category; Toby Keith in the songwriter/artist category ;and Amy Grant in the veteran songwriter/artist category.
The five will be inducted Nov. 1 at the Music City Center in Nashville. Because the organization’s 50th-anniversary celebration was postponed last year due to COVID-19, this year’s event will honor two classes in a special, supersize event, dubbed the “50/51 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala.” This year’s honorees will share the spotlight with the class of 2020: Steve Earle, Bobbie Gentry, Kent Blazy, Brett James and Spooner Oldham.
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees: Amy Grant, Toby Keith
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By Casey Carter
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I remember back in the 1990 s seeing pictures of Country star Rhett Akins with his adorable little boy. Fast forward to 2012. that adorable little boy is now all grown up and released his own song, a rockin Country song called Something To Do With My Hands. That song was a marginal hit, peaking at number 15 on the charts, and was followed by Beer With Jesus, which also had marginal success peaking at 19.
But then came the game changer, It Goes Like This. It Goes Like This was co-written by Rhett Akins recorded by that adorable-little-boy-turned-grown-man Thomas Rhett, and that song went on to be a big number one hit. Fast forward one more time to present day, Thomas Rhett now has 16 number one hits under hit belt, is a Country Music Superstar, and his dad Thomas Rhett has gone on to write some of the biggest hits in Country, not only for Thomas Rhett, but in Country Music in general.