Johnny Cash photo courtesy of Lost Highway Records.

You have to admire people who don’t allow their advancing age to hold them back. Even more, you have to admire people whose presence is so strong that they continue to make an impact even after their death.

Many members of the Country Music Hall of Fame fit one — or both — of those descriptions. Several Hall of Famers — Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn and Hank Williams — are making headlines these days for their longevity or for new projects that add to their legacy.

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Trace Adkins (center) with Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and his wife, Anne, at the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy® Grammy Nominee party. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy® 2009. Photograph by Rick Diamond/WireImage.com.

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Sugarland photo courtesy of UMG Nashville.

For the 16th straight year, the Recording Academy is celebrating its awards show with the 2010 Grammy Nominees CD, with five of the 20 tracks on the latest edition coming from country acts: Taylor Swift, the Zac Brown Band, Sugarland, Lady Antebellum and Rascal Flatts.

It marks the most country releases ever featured on the multi-genre compilation, which has previously never had more than two from Nashville’s best-selling idiom in a single year. In fact, during four of the previous 15 years, no country artists made the nominees CD at all.

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