Global superstar Taylor Swift and country legend Lyle Lovett will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Tuesday.
The new class also includes Shawn Camp and Lee Thomas Miller, both elected in the contemporary songwriter category, and Bruce Channel as the veteran songwriter. They will be formally inducted during the 56th anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala later this year.
Swift, the 14-time Grammy Award-winning artist, is elected in the contemporary songwriter/artist category. She's known for writing many of her own hits since launching her career in Nashville as a preteen. Those include her country singles "Teardrops on My Guitar” and "Love Story,” as well as her blockbuster pop hits "Blank Space,” "Anti-Hero” and "Cruel Summer.” She became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June.
Lovett is elected in the veteran songwriter/artist category. He started his career in the folk scene before finding success for his clever lyricism and innovative country-Americana songs like "She's No Lady,” "Cowboy Man,” "Give Back My Heart,” "Why I Don’t Know,” "God Will” and more.
Camp began as a fiddle player for Shelby Lynne, Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood and others in the ’80s before becoming a hit songwriter. His credits include Garth Brooks’ "Two Piña Coladas,” Brooks & Dunn's "How Long Gone” and Willie Nelson’s "A Beautiful Time.”
