Ashley Gorley To Be Featured As Next Poets And Prophets Honoree
Ashley Gorley will be featured as the next Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Poets and Prophets honoree. The program will take place May 30 at 2:30 p.m. in the museum’s Ford Theater. Tickets are included with museum admission and free to museum members. Seating is limited, and a program ticket is required for admittance. Tickets for the Gorley program will go on sale this Thursday (April 16) at 10 a.m.
The interview will be moderated by Museum Writer-Editor Allison Moorer and will be illustrated with rare photos, film and recordings. Gorley will sign commemorative Hatch Show Print posters at program conclusion.
Gorley is the second songwriter to be honored this year as part of the museum’s Poets and Prophets series. Josh Osborne was featured on Feb. 21, and the final program will feature Pat McLaughlin on Oct. 3.
Hailing from Danville, Kentucky, Gorley relocated to Music City to attend Belmont University and graduated magna cum laude in 1999, completing several internships at publishing companies. Gorley has penned more than 80 No.1 songs, including “I Had Some Help” (Post Malone and Morgan Wallen), “What He Didn’t Do” (Carly Pearce), “You Should Probably Leave” (Chris Stapleton), “She Had Me at Heads Carolina” (Cole Swindell), and “Last Night” (Morgan Wallen). Additional cuts include Kelsea Ballerini, Bon Jovi, Luke Bryan, Dan + Shay, Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Weezer.
“Last Night” helped Gorley spend multiple weeks at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songwriters chart in 2023, with the tune spending a record-breaking 16 weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre chart. He is an eight time GRAMMY nominee, 10 time ASCAP Songwriter of the Year, and a 27 time recipient of the CMA Triple Play Award. He was also honored with the NSAI Songwriter of the Decade award for 2010–2019 in 2022 and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2025.
