GRAMMY nominee John Bettis; GRAMMY winners Garth Brooks, Leon Russell and Billy Steinberg with Tom Kelly; and Recording Academy Trustees Award recipient Allen Toussaint were inducted into the 2011 Songwriters Hall of Fame at the 42nd Annual Induction and Awards Dinner on June 16 in New York.
It has been a massively successful year in pop with an extensive group of artists, producers and songwriters creating sounds that had music fans singing, dancing and tapping along across the globe.
The Alice Cooper Band, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Darlene Love, and Tom Waits are the performer inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2011.
When country music meets the GRAMMY Awards, it's always interesting to see the "family" commingled with artists of other popular genres. Even when you drop Taylor Swift into the mix, it seems to bring the best "country girl" out of her.
