Country music legend Vince Gill made this year’s announcement of the newest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Three inductees are added every year in three different categories; Modern Era Artist, Veteran Era, and Non-Performer, which rotates with songwriter and traveling musician categories.
This year, Kenny Chesney, June Carter Cash, and producer Tony Brown will be headed into the Hall in Nashville, TN. Kenny Chesney released his first album, “In My Wildest Dreams” back in 1994 and would go on to have a huge career in music, scoring his first number one in 1997 with “She’s Got it All.” Chesney would score many more chart toppers, win several awards, and release over 27 career singles.
(Kenny Chesney. Photo by Colin Lovequist)
June Carter Cash was represented by her children Carlene Carter and John Carter Cash at the announcement. Cash came from a musical family thanks her parents Maybelle and Ezra Carter who country music pioneers and really put country music on the map. In 1968, she married Johnny Cash and the two would go on to have a remarkable music career spawning several singles including “Jackson.”
Vince Gill was especially pleased to announce his friend Tony Brown into the Country Music Hall of Fame because it was Brown who helped Gill get his first record deal. He says it was Brown who talked him into recording one of his biggest songs “Go Rest High on That Mountain,” which would be a top 10 hit in Canada in 1995.
The induction ceremony will take place at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum this October.
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