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Louisiana Inductees in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductees from Louisiana - By Year
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1970
Ted Daffan Beauregard Parish, LA "Truck Drivers' Blues", "Born to Lose", "I'm a Fool to Care"
1971
Jimmie Davis Beech Springs, LA "Nobody's Darling But Mine", "You Are My Sunshine", "Shackles and Chains"
1980
Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter) Mooringsport, LA "Good Night Irene", "Rock Island Line", "Midnight Special"
1993
Red Lane Zona, LA "Til I Get It Right", "My Own Kind of Hat", "Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa"
1998
Merle Kilgore (*) Chickasha, Ok "Ring of Fire", "More and More", "Wolverton Mountain"
1999
Glenn Sutton Hodge, LA "Almost Persuaded", "I Don't Wanna Play House", "Take Me to Your World"
2007
Hank Williams Jr. Shreveport, LA "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight", "Family Tradition"
2023
Kix Brooks Shreveport, LA "Brand New Man", "Only In America", "Red Dirt Road"
2024
Tony Joe White Goodwill, LA "Polk Salad Annie", "Rainy Night In Georgia", "Steamy Windows"

Notes: Publisher and music entrepreneur Bill Lowery was honored with the Frances Williams Preston Mentor Award in 2016. Lowery was born on October 21, 1924, in Leesburg, Louisiana. He died of cancer in Atlanta on June 8, 2004. Merle Kilgore was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

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