Tanya Tucker, Patty Loveless and Bob McDill will be the Country Music Hall of Fame’s three 2023 inductees, it was announced in a news conference at the hall’s museum in Nashville Monday…
’s three 2023 inductees, it was announced in a news conference at the hall’s museum in Nashville Monday morning.
Cheers went up at the announcement ceremony as well as around Nashville, as all three have long been favored for induction, and Tucker and Loveless particularly talked up as should-be shoo-ins for their historical importance as leading women in the genre. This may mark the first Hall of Fame slate in which the “Veterans Era” inductee is older than the “Modern Era” artist being voted in; Loveless is 66 and Tucker is 64. By the criteria that separate these categories, though, it’s not even close — Loveless did not release her first album until 1987, when she was 30, whereas Tucker got started as one of music’s most renowned child stars in 1972, when she was 13.
“My dad was mad at me … and he said to me, ‘he said, ‘You’re never gonna be in the Hall of Fame. You’re never gonna make it,’ because he was trying to tell me that I gotta work a little more, a little harder. I remember that so well and I kind of just figured that’s the way it was gonna be, because my daddy was always right.
McDill is known for having his hits recorded by Don Williams, Ronnie Milsap and many others — and, finally, Gill himself. Said Gill of McDill, “He has a song that, I’ve carried in my back pocket for 40 years that I adore. It’s called ‘Last Dance at the Old Texas Moon.’ Do yourself a favor, go listen to that song. Bobby Bare did a version of it , and I have a version of me playing it on a Rodney Crowell record of some sort that got released during COVID.
Earlier in 2022, a belated medallion ceremony for the previous class of inductees was held in April, postponed due to the pandemic. That ceremony honored the Judds, Ray Charles, Eddie Bayers and Pete Drake. That ceremony was quote emotional, as Naomi Judd died by suicide the day before the event, with her daughter Naomi showing up in the immediate wake of the tragedy to accept the award.
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