Taylor Swift, Lyle Lovett and more inducted into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Taylor Swift signed her first publishing deal in Nashville at the age of 14. About 22 years and 14 Grammys later, she joined the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame along with Lyle Lovett, Shawn Camp, Lee Thomas Miller, Bruce Channel and J.I. Allison. Swift added another honor to her trophy wall with her second hall of fame induction this year and was celebrated at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala on Monday in a crowded ballroom full of artists, writers and country music elite. “I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn’t be my career, it would be my passion, Swift said. She described soaking up the lessons from other writers like a sponge, learning how to push through writer s block and write about the human condition, even when her writing partner was hungover or going through a divorce. Swift recalled her mom would regularly pick her up from high school and drop her off at a publishing house on Nashville s Music Row, where she poured