Watch Hall of Fame Inductees Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens & Jerry Bradley Reflect on Historic Honor

Donn Jones/CMA

Watch Hall of Fame Inductees Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens & Jerry Bradley Reflect on Historic Honor

The Country Music Association announced its new inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame on March 18. The Class of 2019 includes Brooks & Dunn (modern era), Ray Stevens (veteran era) and Jerry Bradley (non-performer).

Brooks & Dunn, Ray and Jerry will be officially inducted at a ceremony this fall.

To celebrate the historic accomplishment, the CMA put together a short video that showcases the new inductees discussing the honor at the announcement ceremony in the Hall of Fame rotunda.

photo by Donn Jones/CMA; video courtesy CMA

Blogs

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2025

Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Jeff Bezos’ fiancé Lauren Sanchez successfully completed their space flight yesterday.  It was an all-female flight that also included a filmmaker, a former NASA scientist, and a research scientist. It was about 10 minutes long and they flew to an altitude of 62 miles, to the edge of the Earth’s…

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2025

Let’s be honest:  This is NOT an era of “peak language.”  Everyone is constantly looking for ways to write, read, and speak LESS . . . and with fewer actual words. There’s very little “writing.”  We’re really only texting and DMing, and those messages are a mix of short abbreviations, slang, and emojis that can…