Hillary Lindsey To Be Featured In CMHOFM’s ‘Poets And Prophets’ Series
Hillary Lindsey is set to be featured in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s “Poets and Prophets” interview series. The program will take place on Oct. 26 at 2:30 p.m. in the museum’s Ford Theater and is included with museum admission.
The Washington, Georgia arrived in Nashville in 1994 after enrolling in Belmont University. She signed her first publishing deal as a college senior and earned her first No. 1 in 2002 with Martina McBride’s “Blessed.” In 2007, Lindsey won her first of three Grammys for “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” which is one of more than four dozen of her compositions recorded by Carrie Underwood.
Her songs have also been cut by Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Michelle Branch, Florida Georgia Line, Hardy, Parker McCollum, Tim McGraw, Kacey Musgraves, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban, among others. Lindsey’s work was performed on the television drama Nashville and in the 2018 film A Star Is Born starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. She also worked with Lady Gaga on the pop star’s 2016 album Joanne, writing four songs and singing backing vocals.
Lindsey often writes with fellow songwriters Lori McKenna and Liz Rose as the Love Junkies. In 2020, she founded her own publishing company, Hang Your Hat Music, in partnership with Concord Music Publishing. She is a 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, a 2022 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (NaSHOF) inductee and a two-time ACM Songwriter of the Year winner. Lindsey also took home CMA Song of the Year in 2015 for Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush.”
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