HONOR

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Gene Autry	Country Musician	29-Sep-1907	2-Oct-1998	Singing cowboy
Chuck Berry	Singer	18-Oct-1926		My Ding-A-Ling
Otis Blackwell	Songwriter	16-Feb-1932	6-May-2002	Prolific R&B songwriter
Johnny Bond	Country Musician	1-Jun-1915	12-Jun-1978	Hot Rod Lincoln
Smiley Burnette	Singer/Songwriter	18-Mar-1911	16-Feb-1967	Frog Millhouse
Hoagy Carmichael	Songwriter	22-Nov-1899	27-Dec-1981	Star Dust
Johnny Cash	Country Musician	26-Feb-1932	12-Sep-2003	The Man in Black
Guy Clark	Country Musician	6-Nov-1941		Old No. 1
David Allan Coe	Country Musician	6-Sep-1939		Take This Job and Shove It
Rodney Crowell	Country Musician	7-Aug-1950		Diamonds & Dirt
Hal David	Songwriter	25-May-1921		Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Jimmie Davis	Singer/Songwriter	11-Sep-1899	5-Nov-2000	You Are My Sunshine
Mac Davis	Singer/Songwriter	21-Jan-1942		Rock/Country Singer/Songwriter
Bob Dylan	Musician	24-May-1941		The Times They Are A-Changin'
Don Gibson	Country Musician	3-Apr-1928	17-Nov-2003	Heartbroken country crooner
Woody Guthrie	Singer/Songwriter	14-Jul-1912	3-Oct-1967	Folk legend
Merle Haggard	Country Musician	6-Apr-1937		Okie From Muskogee
Tom T. Hall	Country Musician	25-May-1936		Harper Valley PTA
W. C. Handy	Composer	16-Nov-1873	29-Mar-1958	Father of the Blues
Buddy Holly	Musician	7-Sep-1936	3-Feb-1959	Buddy Holly and The Crickets
Waylon Jennings	Country Musician	15-Jun-1937	13-Feb-2002	Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
Kris Kristofferson	Actor	22-Jun-1936		Me and Bobby McGee
Leadbelly	Guitarist	29-Jan-1885	6-Dec-1949	Goodnight Irene
Loretta Lynn	Country Musician	14-Apr-1932		Coal Miner's Daughter
Roger Miller	Country Musician	2-Jan-1936	25-Oct-1992	King of the Road
Willie Nelson	Country Musician	30-Apr-1933		The red-headed stranger
Roy Orbison	Singer/Songwriter	23-Apr-1936	6-Dec-1988	Pretty Woman
Buck Owens	TV Personality	12-Aug-1929	25-Mar-2006	Hee Haw
Dolly Parton	Country Musician	19-Jan-1946		Jolene
Carl Perkins	Jazz Musician	9-Apr-1932	19-Jan-1998	Blue Suede Shoes
Eddie Rabbitt	Country Musician	27-Nov-1941	7-May-1998	Drivin' My Life Away
Tex Ritter	Country Musician	12-Jan-1905	2-Jan-1974	You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often
Marty Robbins	Country Musician	26-Sep-1925	8-Dec-1982	El Paso
Jimmie Rodgers	Country Musician	8-Sep-1897	26-May-1933	Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler
Shel Silverstein	Poet	25-Sep-1930	10-May-1999	Where the Sidewalk Ends
Hank Snow	Country Musician	9-May-1914	20-Dec-1999	I'm Moving On
Joe South	Musician	28-Feb-1940		Southern singer/songwriter and session guitarist
Ray Stevens	Country Musician	24-Jan-1939		"The Streak"
Hank Thompson	Country Musician	3-Sep-1925	6-Nov-2007	Honky Tonk Swing musician
Mel Tillis	Country Musician	8-Aug-1932		I Ain't Never
Floyd Tillman	Country Musician	8-Dec-1914	22-Aug-2003	Honky-tonk drawler and guitarist
Merle Travis	Country Musician	29-Nov-1917	20-Oct-1983	Influential fingerpicking country guitarist
Ernest Tubb	Musician	9-Feb-1914	6-Sep-1984	The Texas Troubador
Conway Twitty	Country Musician	1-Sep-1933	5-Jun-1993	It's Only Make Believe
Jimmy Webb	Songwriter	15-Aug-1946		Up, Up, and Away!
Hank Williams, Sr.	Country Musician	17-Sep-1923	1-Jan-1953	Take These Chains From My Heart
Bob Wills	Musician	6-Mar-1905	13-May-1975	King of Western Swing

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