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Grammy Award for Best Country Song
The Grammy Award for Best Country Song (sometimes known as the Country Songwriter's Award) has been awarded since 1965. The award is given to the writer of the song.
There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:
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Roger Miller
Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was a Grammy and Tony Award winning American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping...
Billy Sherrill
Billy Sherrill (born Phil Campbell, Alabama, November 5, 1936) is a record producer and arranger who is most famous for his association with a number of country artists, most notably Tammy Wynette. Sherrill and business partner Glenn Sutton are...
Glenn Sutton
Glenn Sutton (September 28, 1937 - April 17, 2007) was a country music songwriter and producer. Born Royce Glenn Sutton in Hodge, Louisiana, he was one of two chief architects of the countrypolitan sound (the other being Sutton's frequent...
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Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston" and "MacArthur Park". His songs have been recorded or performed by Glen Campbell, The 5th...
Bobby Russell
Bobby Russell (19 April 1940, Nashville, Tennessee — 19 November 1992) was a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, including the crossover pop hit ...
Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. He sometimes styled himself as Uncle Shelby, especially for...
Marty Robbins
Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
One of the most popular and successful American country and Western singers of his...
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Ben Peters
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Kenny O'Dell
Kenny O'Dell (born Kenneth Gist Jr., 1946, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer and songwriter.Early in his career he worked with guitar legand,Duane Eddy,and his own band,Guys and Dolls. He is best known for writing the country hit "Behind...
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Norro Wilson
Norris "Norro" Wilson (born April 4, 1938 in Scottsville, Kentucky) is an American country music singer, songwriter and producer, and member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Wilson has written or co-written numerous hit songs during more...
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Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular...
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
Chips Moman
Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman (born 1936, La Grange, Georgia) is an American record producer, guitarist and songwriter. The nickname "Chips" apparently derives from his love of gambling. As a record producer, Moman is known for recording Elvis Presley...
Larry Butler
Larry Butler (b. March 26, 1942 in Pensacola, Florida) is a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many...
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Larry Gatlin
Larry Wayne Gatlin (born May 2, 1948 in Seminole, Texas) is an American country music singer. He is best-known for teaming up with his brothers in the late 1970s, where they became one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s....
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Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh (born 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is best known for penning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" (sung by Crystal Gayle). In 1978 he received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Song" for...
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Don Schlitz
Donald Alan (Don) Schlitz, Jr. (born August 29, 1952 in Durham, North Carolina) is a country music songwriter. For his songwriting efforts, Schlitz has earned two Grammys, as well as four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards. Since 1993,...
Debbie Hupp
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Bob Morrison
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Mark James
Mark James (b. 1940) is a songwriter, famous for writing hits for singers B.J. Thomas, Brenda Lee, and Elvis Presley, most notably Elvis's last U.S. #1 hit of his career, "Suspicious Minds."
Mark James, whose real name is Francis Zambon, was born in...
Wayne Carson
Wayne Carson Thompson is an American country musician and two-time Grammy award winner. He is a songwriter, producer and plays percussion, piano, guitar, and bass. His most famous songs include "Neon Rainbow", "The Letter" and "Always on My Mind" ...
Mike Reid
Michael Barry "Mike" Reid (born May 24, 1947 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is a retired professional American football defensive lineman, as well as a Grammy Award-winning country music artist and composer. After several years playing for the Cincinnati...
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Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards.
Born on Chicago's North Side to...
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Jamie O'Hara
Jamie O'Hara (born August 8, 1950 in Toledo, Ohio) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music artist. Between 1986 and 1990, he and Kieran Kane comprised The O'Kanes, a duo which charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles...
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K.T. Oslin
K. T. Oslin (born Kay Toinette Oslin May 15, 1942, Crossett, Arkansas) is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter.
Kay Toinette Oslin was born in Crossett, Arkansas, but soon after her birth her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee...
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.
He is considered to be part of both the alternative country and the mainstream country music camps. He...
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Don Henry
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Jon Vesner
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Naomi Judd
Naomi Judd is an American country music singer, songwriter, and activist.
She was born Diana Ellen Judd to Charles Glen Judd and his wife Pauline (Oliver) Judd on January 11, 1946, in Ashland, Kentucky. Her father owned a gas station; her mother...
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Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the...
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Gary Baker
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Frank J. Myers
Frank Joseph Myers (born in Dayton, Ohio) is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. In his career, he has written songs for John Michael Montgomery, Eddie Rabbitt, Crystal Gayle, Lonestar and others. In 1995, he and...
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Bill Mack
Bill Mack is one of the most recognizable voices in country music radio. For many years, Mack was best known as the host of The Country Roads Show, (later U.S. 1 Trucking Show, and later still, Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show) the overnight country...
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Bob Carlisle
Bob Carlisle (born September 29, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is a Grammy Award and Dove Award-winning American musician who performs Christian music. He performed with several bands, most notably Allies and Billy Thermal, before launching a...
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Randy Thomas
Randy Thomas (born November 15, 1954 in Denison, Texas) is an American Christian Musician best known for being a member of the Sweet Comfort Band and Allies. In 1984 He formed "Allies" with Sam Scott and teamed up with Bob Carlisle. They spent 9...
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Robert Lange
Robert John "Mutt" Lange (pronounced /ˈlæŋ/) (born November 11, 1948) is a record producer and songwriter, usually known by his nickname "Mutt" Lange. He is one of the most successful producers in rock history. He has produced albums for artists...
Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (pronounced /ʃəˈnaɪə ˈtweɪn/; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop artist. Her third album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She...
Tia Sillers
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Mark D. Sanders
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
John Hartford
John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937– June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of...
Robert Lee Castleman
Robert Lee Castleman is an American country singer and songwriter.
His debut album, "Crazy as Me" was released on Rounder Records in 2000.
He has won a Grammy Award in 2002 in the Best Country Song category for writing "The Lucky One" performed by...
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Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958 in Newnan, Georgia) is an American country artist who has sold over 50 million records. He was influenced by traditional country, and he was one of the most popular country singers of the 1990s, blending...
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Don Rollins
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Jim Brown
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Craig Wiseman
Craig Michael Wiseman (born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music songwriter. Active since the late 1980s as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes,...
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Tim Nichols
Tim Nichols (born in Portsmouth, Virginia is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since the late 1980s, Nichols has written for several country music singers, including Keith Whitley, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jo Dee Messina, and...
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Marcus Hummon
Marcus Spencer Hummon (born December 28, 1960 in Washington, DC) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music artist. After several years of playing in various bands, he eventually found his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was signed to a...
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Jeff Hanna
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Bobby Boyd
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Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the...
Gordie Sampson
Gordie Sampson (born July 30, 1971) is a Grammy, and Juno award winning singer / songwriter / producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia, Canada.
As a performer he has shared the stage with the likes of Faith Hill, Keith Urban, the Rankin Family, Joel...
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Jennifer Nettles
Jennifer Nettles (born September 12, 1974) is an American Grammy-winning country music artist. She is known primarily for her role as lead vocalist of the duo Sugarland alongside Kristian Bush. Prior to Sugarland's inception, she also fronted...
Brett James
Brett James Cornelius (born June 5, 1968 in Columbia, Missouri) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. Originally signed to Career Records (a division of Arista Nashville) as a solo artist in 1995,...
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Hillary Lindsey
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Josh Kear
Joshua Peter "Josh" Kear is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter. His credits include Carrie Underwood's number-one "Before He Cheats", for which Kear won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 2007. Kear has also written for Jimmy Buffett,...
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