Country music star Cindy Walker, a Texas native who penned countless hit songs, has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Country star Cindy Walker was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, it was announced Thursday. Walker, who wrote countless hits across her six-decade career, was celebrated for her immediate, unpretentious songwriting style. She wrote songs performed by some of the biggest names in country music history and beyond, including Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, B.B. King, Cher, and Glen Campbell.
' Perhaps her best known composition, 'You Don't Know Me,' has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Eddy Arnold, Kenny Rogers, Emmylou Harris and many more. 'This would’ve made her so proud, and the thing that gets me is, when we hear Cindy’s songs she’s still with us,' Molly Walker, Cindy Walker's niece, said in a statement about the induction. 'I can’t tell you how much this would have meant to her and her family.
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