Country Music Hall of Fame

The country music community convened Sunday to recognize the Hall's class of 2020 after the pandemic canceled last year's ceremony.

Even in a city and an era that rewarded unique and ambitious characters, Tom T. Hall stood out in 20th century Nashville. Rural by upbringing yet as literary minded as a poet or a magazine staff writer, the Kentucky native was a masterful songwriter and artist who infused country music with unusual plotlines, complex humanity, social insight and refined wit.

A second-generation country music legend, a revered Music Row songwriter and the ultimate roots music polymath make up the 2020 class of inductees into…

The symbiotic relationship of music cities Austin, TX and Nashville TN goes back more than four decades. It’s a curious story that mingles art, commerce,…