1996

Glen Campbell

Billstown/Delight

 

Johnny Cash

Kingsland

 

Jimmy Driftwood

Timbo

 

Randy Goodrum

Hot Springs

 

Al Green

Forrest City

 

Wayland Holyfield

Mallet Town

 

Alan Ladd

Hot Springs

 

Tracy Lawrence

Foreman

 

Lum and Abner
(Chet Lauck and Norris Goff)

Mena

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Art Porter Sr.

Little Rock

 

Patsy Montana

Beaudry

 

Dick Powell

Mountain View

 

Charlie Rich

Colt

 

Mary Steenburgen

Newport

 

Harry Thomason

Hampton

 

Billy Bob Thornton

Hot Springs

 

1998

Bob Burns

Greenwood

 

The Browns

Sparkman

 

Melvin Endsley

Drasco

 

Jim Ed Brown

Sparkman/Pine Bluff

 

Levon Helm

Turkey Scratch

 

Bonnie Brown

Sparkman/Pine Bluff

 

Floyd Cramer

Huttig

 

Maxine Brown

Sampti, LA/Pine Bluff

 

Louis Jordan

Brinkley

 

Mark Wright

Fayetteville

 

Jerry Van Dyke

Benton

 

Conway Twitty

Helena

 

2000

Julie Adams

Little Rock

 

K. T. Oslin

Crossett

 

James (Jim) Bridges

Paris

 

Sarah Caldwell

Fayetteville

 

Skeets McDonald

Rector

 

Art Porter Jr.

Little Rock

 

Broncho Billy Anderson

Pine Bluff

 

Pharoah Sanders

Little Rock

 

William Warfield

Helena

 

Twila Paris

Springdale

 

2002/2003

Ronnie Dunn

El Dorado

 

Barbara Hendricks

Stephens

 

John Grisham

Jonesboro

 

William Grant Still

Little Rock

 

Steve Stephens

Newport

 

Freeman H. Owens

Pine Bluff

 

Walter Norris

Little Rock

  

2005

Collin Raye

De Queen

 

John Michael Talbot

Little Rock/Eureka Springs

 

Ed Bruce

Keiser

 

Elizabeth Williams

Arkadelphia

 

Jim Porter

Little Rock

 

Lefty Frizzell

El Dorado

 

Lawrence Hamilton

Foreman

 

John Weston

Brinkley/Smale

 

Albert Brumley

Hartford Music Institute

 

2007

Beth Brickell

Camden

 

Gil Gerard

Little Rock

 

Laurence Luckinbill

Fort Smith

 

Gail Davis

McGehee

 

BJ Sams

Little Rock

 

Jack Mitchell

Bella Vista

 

Sonny Burgess

Newport

 

Sarah Tackett

Conway

 

2008

Tess Harper

Mammoth Springs

 

Ronnie Hawkins

Huntsville/Fayetteville

 

Wayne Jackson

West Memphis

 

Joe Nichols

Rogers

 

Wilburn Brothers

Hardy

 

Sonny Boy Williamson

Helena

 

Ed Wilson

Rison

 

2010

Kris Allen

Conway

 

Lisa Blount

Fayetteville

 

Jim “Moose” Brown

Jonesboro

 

Barbara Fairchild

Knobel

 

Albert King

Forrest City

 

George Newbern

Little Rock

 

Mark Sallings

McCrory

 

Jerry McKinnis

Flippin

 

Charles B. Pierce

Hampton

 

2013

Gary Weir

North Little Rock

 

Bill Carter

Rector

 

Louie Shelton

North Little Rock

 

Rosetta Nubin Tharpe

Cotton Plant

 

Michael Utley

Blytheville

 

2015

Charlaine Harris

Magnolia

 

Buddy Jewell

Lepanto/Osceola

 

Francis McBeth

Arkadelphia

 

Cate Brothers

Fayetteville

 

Al Bell

Brinkley/North Little Rock

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