Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks Commend Songwriters Hall Inductees
Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks Commend Songwriters Hall Inductees
Kim Williams hesitated only to some extent when asked about who he considers has been the best interpreter of his songs prior to the start of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
“That’s tough, but I’d say it would have to be Garth Brooks because I wrote them with him,” Kim Williams said. “He was part of the songs, too, before he sang them. We had so much fun writing together.”
Trisha Yearwood and her husband Brooks were on hand to help celebrate this year’s inductees — Kim Williams, Tony Arata, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Larry Lenley. Yearwood paid tribute to Carpenter and Henley, the writer of the enduring hit “The Wind Beneath My Wings”, as Brooks saluted Williams and Arata.
“Over 200 artists have recorded “The Wind Beneath My Wings,” so it’s kind of how do you do a new twist?” Yearwood said before the ceremony. “And with Chapin, I’ve just known her a long, long time, so it was a no-barrier when she asked me. It’s Garth and Trisha show and we’re just going to have a good time,” Yearwood added.
Brooks sang “New Way To Fly,” “Papa Loved Mama,” and “Three Wooden Crosses” to Williams during a moving and very funny induction speech, then sang Arata’s “The Dance.” The appearance after a year of Brooks’ own induction.
The Nashville Songwriters Association International also gave out its annual songwriting awards. Taylor Swift once again won the songwriter/artist of the year award for the fifth time in six years and remains at 22 that award’s youngest winner. Dallas Davidson was named songwriter of the year. And Dolly Parton’s enduring hit “I Will Always Love You,” which achieved No. 1 again this year after Whitney Houston’s death, was named song of the year.
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