Has collaborated with such composers as Tom Waits, J.D. Souther, Chris Hillman, Bobby Whitlock, Jim Lauderdale and Beth Nielsen Chapman Jack Tempchin, Inducted 2019

Wrote "Best of My Love" with Maurice White Al McKay, Inducted 2010

"We know the power of songs." Honored with National Medal of the Arts in 2012 Pete Seeger, Inducted 1972

Composed songs recorded by artists like Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Louis Armstrong and The Mamas And The Papas. Fred Ahlert, Inducted 1970