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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Gene Autry
Country Musician
29-Sep-1907 2-Oct-1998 Singing cowboy
Chuck Berry
Singer
18-Oct-1926   My Ding-A-Ling
Otis Blackwell
Songwriter
16-Feb-1932 6-May-2002 Prolific R&B songwriter
Johnny Bond
Country Musician
1-Jun-1915 12-Jun-1978 Hot Rod Lincoln
Smiley Burnette
Singer/Songwriter
18-Mar-1911 16-Feb-1967 Frog Millhouse
Hoagy Carmichael
Songwriter
22-Nov-1899 27-Dec-1981 Star Dust
Johnny Cash
Country Musician
26-Feb-1932 12-Sep-2003 The Man in Black
Guy Clark
Country Musician
6-Nov-1941   Old No. 1
David Allan Coe
Country Musician
6-Sep-1939   Take This Job and Shove It
Rodney Crowell
Country Musician
7-Aug-1950   Diamonds & Dirt
Hal David
Songwriter
25-May-1921   Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Jimmie Davis
Singer/Songwriter
11-Sep-1899 5-Nov-2000 You Are My Sunshine
Mac Davis
Singer/Songwriter
21-Jan-1942   Rock/Country Singer/Songwriter
Bob Dylan
Musician
24-May-1941   The Times They Are A-Changin'
Don Gibson
Country Musician
3-Apr-1928 17-Nov-2003 Heartbroken country crooner
Woody Guthrie
Singer/Songwriter
14-Jul-1912 3-Oct-1967 Folk legend
Merle Haggard
Country Musician
6-Apr-1937   Okie From Muskogee
Tom T. Hall
Country Musician
25-May-1936   Harper Valley PTA
W. C. Handy
Composer
16-Nov-1873 29-Mar-1958 Father of the Blues
Buddy Holly
Musician
7-Sep-1936 3-Feb-1959 Buddy Holly and The Crickets
Waylon Jennings
Country Musician
15-Jun-1937 13-Feb-2002 Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
Kris Kristofferson
Actor
22-Jun-1936   Me and Bobby McGee
Leadbelly
Guitarist
29-Jan-1885 6-Dec-1949 Goodnight Irene
Loretta Lynn
Country Musician
14-Apr-1932   Coal Miner's Daughter
Roger Miller
Country Musician
2-Jan-1936 25-Oct-1992 King of the Road
Willie Nelson
Country Musician
30-Apr-1933   The red-headed stranger
Roy Orbison
Singer/Songwriter
23-Apr-1936 6-Dec-1988 Pretty Woman
Buck Owens
TV Personality
12-Aug-1929 25-Mar-2006 Hee Haw
Dolly Parton
Country Musician
19-Jan-1946   Jolene
Carl Perkins
Jazz Musician
9-Apr-1932 19-Jan-1998 Blue Suede Shoes
Eddie Rabbitt
Country Musician
27-Nov-1941 7-May-1998 Drivin' My Life Away
Tex Ritter
Country Musician
12-Jan-1905 2-Jan-1974 You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often
Marty Robbins
Country Musician
26-Sep-1925 8-Dec-1982 El Paso
Jimmie Rodgers
Country Musician
8-Sep-1897 26-May-1933 Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler
Shel Silverstein
Poet
25-Sep-1930 10-May-1999 Where the Sidewalk Ends
Hank Snow
Country Musician
9-May-1914 20-Dec-1999 I'm Moving On
Joe South
Musician
28-Feb-1940   Southern singer/songwriter and session guitarist
Ray Stevens
Country Musician
24-Jan-1939   "The Streak"
Hank Thompson
Country Musician
3-Sep-1925 6-Nov-2007 Honky Tonk Swing musician
Mel Tillis
Country Musician
8-Aug-1932   I Ain't Never
Floyd Tillman
Country Musician
8-Dec-1914 22-Aug-2003 Honky-tonk drawler and guitarist
Merle Travis
Country Musician
29-Nov-1917 20-Oct-1983 Influential fingerpicking country guitarist
Ernest Tubb
Musician
9-Feb-1914 6-Sep-1984 The Texas Troubador
Conway Twitty
Country Musician
1-Sep-1933 5-Jun-1993 It's Only Make Believe
Jimmy Webb
Songwriter
15-Aug-1946   Up, Up, and Away!
Hank Williams, Sr.
Country Musician
17-Sep-1923 1-Jan-1953 Take These Chains From My Heart
Bob Wills
Musician
6-Mar-1905 13-May-1975 King of Western Swing


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