\n\tThis award honors a country music artist, duo\/group or industry leader whose multifaceted contributions across songwriting, recording, production, touring, film, television, literary works and philanthropic efforts have positively impacted the country music genre and community.<\/p>\n
\n\tKnown as \u201cWhisperin\u2019 Bill,\u201d Anderson, 88, rose to fame in the late 1950s by writing the song \u201cCity Lights,\u201d which was first performed by Ray Price and became a No. 1 country hit. Anderson went on to become one of country music\u2019s most successful songwriters and artists, with songwriting credits including George Strait\u2019s \u201cGive It Away,\u201d Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss\u2019 \u201cWhiskey Lullaby\u201d and Kenny Chesney\u2019s \u201cA Lot of Things Different.\u201d He won an ACM Award in 2007 for cowriting \u201cGive It Away,\u201d and was the first recipient of the ACM Poet\u2019s Award in 2008. Other accolades include five Grammy nominations and inductions into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1975), Country Music Hall of Fame (2001) and Songwriters Hall of Fame (2018). He is also the longest-standing member of the Grand Ole Opry.<\/p>\n
\n\tCurb, 81, is a producer and songwriter, as well as the founder and owner of Curb Records, a leading independent record label. Since entering the music industry in the 1960s, Curb has worked with the likes of Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Lyle Lovett, Wynonna Judd, Rodney Atkins, Lee Brice, Dylan Scott, Kelsey Hart, Hank Williams Jr. and Jo Dee Messina. He has cowritten hits and themes for numerous films and television series. Outside of music, Curb served as Lt. Governor of California from 1979 to 1983 and established the Mike Curb Foundation, which provides funds to support music education, preserve historical music sites, aid homelessness initiatives and more. He has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Music City Walk of Fame. He was first elected to the ACM board of directors in 1991.<\/p>\n
\n\tPast recipients include Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Eric Church, Charlie Daniels, Mike Dungan, Joe Galante, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alan Jackson, George Jones, The Judds, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, George Strait, Conway Twitty, Ben Vaughn, Hank Williams, Trisha Yearwood and Dwight Yoakam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This award honors a country music artist, duo\/group or industry leader whose multifaceted contributions across songwriting, recording, production,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[247598,10779,156,2525,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-494519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-acm-honors","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-country","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}