AUSTIN, TEXAS – Luke Combs performs during 2025 Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park on October 10, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/FilmMagic)
NASHVILLE, TN – MAY 17: Barbara Mandrell, George Jones, Emmylou Harris and Harold Bradley attend the 2009 Country Music Hall of Fame Medallion Ceremony on May 17, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Ed Rode/WireImage)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – NOVEMBER 19: EDITORIAL USE ONLY Chris Stapleton performs onstage during the 59th Annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 19, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/WireImage)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – George Strait accepts the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during The 58th Annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 20, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
LAKE TAHOE, NV – 1980: Country singer, Dolly Parton, performs at Harrah's Club in this 1980 Lake Tahoe, Nevada, photo. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 04: Taylor Swift accepts the Album Of The Year award for "Midnights" during the 66th GRAMMY Awards on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
BIRMINGHAM, AL – OCTOBER 16: Loretta Lynn performs at the Alys Stephens Center on October 16, 2009 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
BERLIN, GERMANY – Dolly Parton, Singer, Country, Pop, USA, performs on July 06, 2014, at O2 World, Berlin, Germany (Photo by Engelke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – American country singer Merle Haggard (1937 – 2016) performs at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, 3rd August 1973. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Howard Bellamy (left) and David Bellamy of the American country music duo 'The Bellamy Brothers' performing on stage at the Country Music Festival held at Wembley Arena, London in April 1980. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images)
