Taylor Swift, Lyle Lovett Join Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Taylor Swift and Lyle Lovett will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Tuesday.

They are joined by Shawn Camp and Lee Thomas Miller, both elected in the contemporary songwriter category, and Bruce Channel, elected as the veteran songwriter. The five will be formally inducted at the 56th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala later this year.

Swift, a 14-time Grammy Award winner, was elected in the contemporary songwriter/artist category. She has written many of her own hits since starting her career in Nashville as a preteen, including the country singles "Teardrops On My Guitar" and "Love Story" and the pop hits "Blank Space," "Anti-Hero" and "Cruel Summer." In June, she became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Lovett was elected in the veteran songwriter/artist category. He began in the folk scene before drawing acclaim for his wordplay and his country-Americana songs, among them "She's No Lady," "Cowboy Man," "Give Back My Heart," "Why I Don't Know" and "God Will."

Camp played fiddle for Shelby Lynne, Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood and others in the 1980s before becoming a hit songwriter. His credits include Garth Brooks' "Two Piña Coladas," Brooks & Dunn's "How Long Gone" and Willie Nelson's "A Beautiful Time."

Miller's hits include Terri Clark's "I Just Wanna Be Mad," Trace Adkins' "You're Gonna Miss This," Tim McGraw's "Nothin' To Die For" and "Southern Girl," Chris Stapleton's "Whiskey And You," and numerous songs for Brad Paisley, including "The World."

Channel, a Texas songwriter, is best known for "Hey! Baby!," written in 1959 and later recorded by José Feliciano, Ringo Starr, Conway Twitty, Anne Murray and DJ Ötzi. The song may be most familiar from its prominent placement in the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing."

Executive Director Mark Ford announced the class inside Belmont University's R. Milton and Denice Johnson Center.

"This is always one of the most anticipated days on our calendar — the annual reveal of our incoming class," Ford said in a statement. "We're excited to once again add new names to a legendary list that began more than a half century ago."