THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO — — Pictured: Musician Trace Adkins performing on April 8, 1998 — (Photo by: Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Ross Copperman accepts Gary Haber Lifting Lives Award at the 14th Annual Academy Of Country Music Honors at Ryman Auditorium on August 25, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images,,)
CIRCA LATE 1960s: Country musician Merle Haggard performs on stage with Bonnie Owens during a late 1960's concert. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
American Country musicians Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (1938 – 2020) perform together onstage at Brendan Byrne Arena (later Meadowlands Arena), East Rutherford, New Jersey, October 20, 1988. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)
American singer, songwriter and pianist Ray Charles (1930-2004) performs on stage during the recording of a television show for the BBC2 channel at BBC Television Centre in London in September 1968. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)