Country Songs in the Grammy Hall of Fame

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In addition to the previously-published list of country performers who have been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Grammy award, here is a list of the country songs that have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.  The Grammy Hall of Fame, established in 1973, "honors recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance."  These recordings can be a single song or an entire album.

Here are the country inductees in the Grammy Hall of Fame:


"Act Naturally" - Buck Owens (inducted 2013)
"All I Have to Do Is Dream" - Everly Brothers (inducted 2004)
"Allons A Lafayette" - Joseph Falcon (inducted 2013)
"Always On My Mind" - Willie Nelson (inducted 2008)
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - Elvis Presley (inducted 2007)

"Back in the Saddle Again" - Gene Autry (inducted 1997)
"The Battle of New Orleans" - Johnny Horton (inducted 2002)
"Behind Closed Doors" - Charlie Rich (inducted 1999)
"Black Mountain Rag" - Doc Watson (inducted 2006)
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Bill Monroe (inducted 1998)
"Blue Suede Shoes" - Carl Perkins (inducted 1996)
"Blue Yodel (T For Texas)" - Jimmie Rodgers (inducted 1985)
"Blue Yodel #9 (Standing on the Corner)" - Jimmie Rodgers (inducted 2007)
"Blues, Stay Away From Me" - Delmore Brothers (inducted 2007)
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" - Glen Campbell (inducted 2004)
"Bye Bye Love" - Everly Brothers (inducted 1998)

"Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)" - Carter Family (inducted 1998)
"Coal Miner's Daughter" - Loretta Lynn (inducted 1998)
"Cool Water" - Sons of the Pioneers (inducted 1986)
"Crazy" - Patsy Cline (inducted 1992)
"Crazy Arms" - Ray Price (inducted 1999)
"Crying" - Roy Orbison (inducted 2002)

"Dang Me" - Roger Miller (inducted 1998)
"Deep in the Heart of Texas" - Gene Autry (inducted 2012)
Desperado - Eagles (inducted 2000)
Doc Watson - Doc Watson (inducted 2014)
"Don't Be Cruel" - Elvis Presley (inducted 2012)
"Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" - Charlie Poole (inducted 2007)
Dust Bowl Ballads, Volumes 1 & 2 - Woody Guthrie (inducted 1998)

"El Paso" - Marty Robbins (inducted 1998)

"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (inducted 1999)
Foggy Mountain Banjo - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (inducted 2013)
Foggy Mountain Jamboree - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (inducted 2012)
"Folsom Prison Blues" (1956 Sun version) - Johnny Cash (inducted 2001

"Gentle On My Mind" - Glen Campbell (inducted 2008)
"Great Balls of Fire" - Jerry Lee Lewis (inducted 1998)
"Great Speckled Bird" - Roy Acuff (inducted 2009)

"Happy Trails" - Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (inducted 2009)
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones (inducted 2007)
"Heartbreak Hotel" - Elvis Presley (inducted 1995)
"He'll Have to Go" - Jim Reeves (inducted 1999)
"Hello, Darlin'" - Conway Twitty (inducted 1999)
"Hello Walls" - Faron Young (inducted 2000)
"Help Me Make It Through the Night" - Sammi Smith (inducted 1998)
"Hey Good Lookin'" - Hank Williams (inducted 2001)
"Honky Tonkin'" - Hank Williams (inducted 2015)
"Hound Dog" - Elvis Presley (inducted 1988)

"I Can't Stop Loving You" - Ray Charles (inducted 2001)
"I Fall to Pieces" - Patsy Cline (inducted 2001)
"I Walk the Line" - Johnny Cash (inducted 1998)
"I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" - Patsy Montana (inducted 2007)
"I Will Always Love You" - Dolly Parton (inducted 2007)
"If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time" - Lefty Frizzell (inducted 1999)
"I'm Movin' On" - Hank Snow (inducted 2000)
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - Hank Williams (inducted 1999)
"I'm Sorry" - Brenda Lee (inducted 1999)
"In the Jailhouse Now" - Jimmie Rodgers (inducted 2007)
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" - Kitty Wells (inducted 1998)
"I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" - Buck Owens (inducted 1999)

"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" - Hank Williams (inducted 2002)
John Prine - John Prine (inducted 2015)
Johnny Cash At San Quentin - Johnny Cash (inducted 2004)
"Jolene" - Dolly Parton (inducted 2014)

"Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" - Uncle Dave Macon (inducted 2007)
"Keep On the Sunny Side" - Carter Family (inducted 2006)
"King of the Road" - Roger Miller (inducted 1999)
Kristofferson - Kris Kristofferson (inducted 2014)

"Last Date" - Floyd Cramer (inducted 2004)
"Lovesick Blues" - Hank Williams (inducted 2011)

"Make the World Go Away" - Eddy Arnold (inducted 1999)
"Mama Tried" - Merle Haggard (inducted 1999)
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles (inducted 1999)
"Mr. Bojangles" - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (inducted 2010)
"Mule Skinner Blues" -  Bill Monroe (inducted 2009)

"New San Antonio Rose" - Bob Wills (inducted 1998)

"Ode to Billy Joe" - Bobbie Gentry (inducted 1999)
"Oh, Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison (inducted 1999)
"On the Road Again" - Willie Nelson (inducted 2011)
"Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)" - Roy Orbison (inducted 1999)

"Pan American Blues" - DeFord Bailey (inducted 2007)
"Peggy Sue" - Buddy Holly (inducted 1999)
"Pistol Packin' Mama" - Al Dexter (inducted 2000)
"The Prisoner's Song" - Vernon Dalhart (inducted 1998)

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" - B.J. Thomas (inducted 2014)
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson (inducted 2002)
"Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash (inducted 1999)
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" - Gene Autry (inducted 1985)

"San Antonio Rose" - Bob Wills (inducted 2015)
"She Thinks I Still Care" - George Jones (inducted 1999)
"Sixteen Tons" - Tennessee Ernie Ford (inducted 1998)
"Stand By Your Man" - Tammy Wynette (inducted 1999)
Stardust - Willie Nelson (inducted 2015)
"Steel Guitar Rag" - Bob Wills (inducted 2011)
"Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley (inducted 1999)
Sweetheart of the Rodeo - Byrds (inducted 2000)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" - John Denver (inducted 1998)
"Tennessee Waltz" - Patti Page (inducted 1998)
"That'll Be the Day" - Buddy Holly & the Crickets (inducted 1998)
"That's All Right" - Elvis Presley (inducted 1998)
"That's My Desire" - Frankie Laine (inducted 1998)
"This Land Is Your Land" - Woody Guthrie (inducted 1989)
"The Titanic" - Ernest V. Stoneman (inducted 2013)
"Tumbling Tumbleweeds" - Sons of the Pioneers (inducted 2002)

"Wabash Cannonball" - Roy Acuff (inducted 1998)
"Walking the Floor Over You" - Ernest Tubb (inducted 1998)
Wanted! The Outlaws - Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, & Tompall Glaser (inducted 2007)
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" - Freddy Fender (inducted 2012)
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" - Jerry Lee Lewis (inducted 1999)
"Wichita Lineman" - Glen Campbell (inducted 2000)
"The Wild Side of Life" - Hank Thompson (inducted 1999)
"Wildwood Flower" - Carter Family (inducted 1999)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (inducted 1998)

"You Are My Sunshine" - Jimmie Davis (inducted 1999)
"Your Cheatin' Heart' - Hank Williams (inducted 1983) (the first country song inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame)