Emmylou Harris and Brad Paisley are headed for Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Country superstar Brad Paisley and Americana powerhouse Emmylou Harris will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Wednesday.

The new class also includes Steve Bogard and Tony Martin in the contemporary songwriter category, Jim Lauderdale in the contemporary songwriter/artist category and Don Cook in the veteran songwriter category. They will be formally inducted on Oct. 6 during the 55th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala held at the Music City Center.

Paisley, a three-time Grammy-winning country music superstar with a whopping 41 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, is known for writing many of his own hits. Those include “He Didn’t Have To Be,” “Alcohol,” “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song),” “Letter To Me,” and “Remind Me” a duet with Carrie Underwood.

Harris, one of the great American folk singer-songwriters, with 13 Grammys to her name, is known for such hits like “Boulder To Birmingham,” “White Line” and “Heartbreak Hill.” She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

Bogard is known for radio staples like George Strait's “Carried Away,” Rascal Flatts' “Prayin’ For Daylight” and Dierks Bentley's “Every Mile A Memory.”

Martin also wrote for Strait — “Baby’s Gotten Good At Goodbye” — as well as Jason Aldean (“A Little More Summertime”) and Keith Urban (“You Look Good In My Shirt”). Urban himself was recently inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2023.

Lauderdale is known for his own songs, like “I Feel Like Singing Today,” “She’s Looking At Me” and “Mighty Lonesome,” but also those he wrote for others, like Mark Chesnutt's “Gonna Get A Life” and Patty Loveless' “Halfway Down.”

Cook is notable for T. Graham Brown's “I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again,” Steve Wariner's “Small Town Girl” and Brooks & Dunn's “Only In America.”

The chair of the organization’s board of directors, Rich Hallworth, and Mark Ford, its executive director, made the announcement at Nashville’s historic Columbia Studio A.

“Gathering as we do each year — to reveal and welcome the members of our incoming class — is truly one of the highlights of our calendar,” Hallworth said in a statement. “To these outstanding songwriters, we say — thank you for sharing your songs and your artistry with us.”

FILE - Brad Paisley performs in Rosemont, Ill., on Feb. 24, 2018. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Country singer Emmylou Harris performs at the All for the Hall Benefit in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2019. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Emmylou Harris appears at the MusiCares Person of the Year award ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2019, left, and Brad Paisley poses for a portrait in New York on Nov. 18, 2019. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts, one of two federal panels reviewing his plan to build a White House ballroom.

One of the four is James McCrery, an architect who had led the now $400 million ballroom project until Trump replaced him late last year. McCrery also served on the commission during Trump's first term as president.

The White House announced the project last summer and Trump later demolished the East Wing to make room for the ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued in federal court to halt construction until the fine arts panel and a second federal commission give their approval.

The four new members were revealed in court papers filed Thursday by a White House official as part of that lawsuit. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The commission, which normally has seven members, has been vacant for months. Trump dismissed six commissioners last fall after the East Wing was demolished. A seventh commissioner, who was the panel’s chair, resigned after Trump took office last year because their term had expired.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has accused the Trump administration of violating federal laws by starting the project before submitting it for independent reviews by the commissions and Congress, as well as the public.

The three remaining members appointed by Trump to the Commission of Fine Arts are: Mary Anne Carter of Tennessee; Roger Kimball of Connecticut; and Matthew Taylor of Washington, D.C.

The National Capital Planning Commission, the second federal panel with oversight of construction on federal land, including the White House grounds, heard an initial presentation about the ballroom at its meeting on Jan. 8.

Marine One helicopter is seen on the South Lawn of the White House to transport President Donald Trump to nearby Andrews Air Force Base, as work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the White House, Tuesday, Jan., 13, 2026, in Washington, where the East Wing once stood. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)