Country Music Hall of Fame member Ronnie Milsap’s busy tour schedule brings him back to Nashville on January 17, 2020, for “An Evening with Ronnie Milsap”—an intimate performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMA Theater.

Author, keyboardist, producer, and vocalist Joseph Wooten plays keyboard and sings with the Steve Miller Band, whom he has worked with for twenty-six years, and regularly performs with his family band, the Wooten Brothers. He's also shared the stage with Curtis Mayfield, Marty Stuart, the Temptations, and many others. He visits the Museum for a Musician Spotlight on Sunday, January 19.

Country Music Hall of Fame member Faron Young got his musical start singing in nursing homes and at the local Optimist Club in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. At age twenty, he signed to Capitol Records, and between 1954 and 1962, he cut a slew of honky-tonk classics, including the first hit version of Don Gibson’s “Sweet Dreams.” The most famous: “Hello Walls,” a crossover smash written by Willie Nelson, pitched to Young while glasses clinked inside Nashville honky-tonk Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge.

PHOTO: Walden S. Fabry

Announcing our 2020 exhibition lineup: Country Music Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson, Martina McBride, and Chris Stapleton will be featured among another broad and impactful mix of musical talent. Our annually updated American Currents: State of the Music returns, spotlighting dozens of other artists' latest achievements, and the Museum’s major exhibition, Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ’70s, remains through February 2021.

During their distinguished careers, Country Music Hall of Fame members Boudleaux and Felice Bryant composed more than 6,000 songs, and more than 900 were recorded by artists working across genres. Among their many hits: “Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” “Country Boy,” and "Rocky Top."

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn rocketed to stardom in the 1990s, and for two decades, they remained leaders in country music, with hits including “Neon Moon,” “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “Hard Workin’ Man,” “My Maria” and “Red Dirt Road.”

Channeling her own galactic country spirit and influences from Dolly Parton to Daft Punk, Kacey Musgraves is riding a critical wave behind her Grammy-winning, universally acclaimed album Golden Hour.