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Jerry Carrigan vividly remembers his first major Nashville session, after having made a name for himself as part of the primary rhythm section at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Surrounded by A-team players—Ray Edenton on acoustic guitar, Grady Martin on electric guitar, Bob Moore on bass, and either Floyd Cramer or Pig Robbins on piano—Carrigan was told to play a shuffle.

Vince Gill’s only plan going into his second performance as the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s artist-in-residence was to offer up a different batch of songs from his previous show.

Vince Gill lowered his voice to a whisper as he spoke of the song he wrote after his brother Bob’s death in 1993. “I wrote this song, and I didn’t have any idea if anybody would want to hear it, or like it,” Gill said of “Go Rest High on That Mountain.” “All I wanted to do was grieve for him and celebrate his life. That’s how I always process grief—sit down with a guitar and make something up. Turns out that if anybody remembers any of my songs, it’ll be this one.”

Lycrecia Williams Hoover beamed as she tapped her foot along to one of her favorite Hank Williams songs, “Fly Trouble.” 

Dean Dillon vividly remembers the day in 1979 when he stood on a porch on Seventeenth Avenue, on Nashville's famed Music Row, and watched producer Blake Mevis pull up in his car. Mevis approached Dillon and songwriter Frank Dycus to ask if they had any songs they wanted to pitch for a young Texas cowboy singer Mevis had started recording in the studio. the singer, unknown at the time, was George Strait.

Gordon Stoker and Ray Walker, two members of the legendary vocal group the Jordanaires, can pinpoint the moment when they fully embraced making a career of singing behind stars—instead of trying to become stars.

Prominent leaders in business, entertainment and media expressed their support for the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum at the not-for-profit educational organization's second annual All for the Hall New York fundraiser at the Nokia Theatre Times Square on October 15.

Garth Brooks, proving once again how capable he is of seizing a moment, looked across the stage at Jerry Douglas and summed up why the Dobro master ranks among the most admired instrumentalists of his generation—and why he was named 2008 artist-in-residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Jeffrey Steele may be one of Nashville’s most successful songwriters, but that is a relatively recent development for the forty-seven-year-old singer and band leader, who has been an entertainer nearly all of his life.