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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Dave Haywood of Lady A performs at the Ryman Auditorium on December 21, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Country Singer Sanford Clark poses during a recording session at Viv Studios circa 1959 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Johnny Franklin/andmorebears/Getty Images)
AUSTIN – JULY 4: Country singer and songwriter Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson perform as the Highwaymen at Willie Nelson Fourth of July picnic on July 4, 1985 in Austin, Texas. (photo by Beth Gwinn/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES – SEPTEMBER 1966: Country musician Merle Haggard (L) and his band "Merle Haggard & the Strangers" pose for a September 1966 portrait in Los Angeles, California. Guitarist Roy Nichols is seated on the right. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Willie Nelson attends an event at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on July 21, 1980. (Photo by Robert Ware/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
