Byron Hill’s songs have been released on one hundred industry certified Gold and Platinum albums and singles, earning ten ASCAP awards, thirty-six U.S. and Canadian top-ten chart hits, and have become hits in many other worldwide markets. To date, seventeen members of the Country Music Hall of Fame have recorded his songs. Byron was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. His recorded catalog of songs spans more than four decades, and includes such hits as “Fool Hearted Memory” (George Strait), “Pickin’ Up Strangers” (Johnny Lee), “Politics, Religion, And Her” (Sammy Kershaw), “Nothing On But The Radio” (Gary Allan), “Born Country” (Alabama), “Over You” (Anne Murray), “High-Tech Redneck” (George Jones), “Alright Already” (Larry Stewart), “If I Was A Drinkin’ Man” (Neal McCoy), “Size Matters” (Joe Nichols), “Nights” (Ed Bruce), “The Strong One” (Mila Mason), “Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous” (Tracy Byrd), and “The Pages Of My Mind” (Ray Charles). Byron’s songs have also been recorded by a long list of other iconic and current artists of our time including Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire, Don Williams, John Michael Montgomery, Juice Newton, Joe Nichols, Randy Travis, Keith Whitley, Jason Aldean, Trace Adkins, Conway Twitty, Jeff Bates, Highway 101, Barbara Mandrell, Mel McDaniel, Mark Chesnutt, Rhett Akins, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Whites, Ricky Van Shelton, The Seekers, Rhonda Vincent, Lonesome River Band, Colt Ford, Mo Pitney, The Grascals, The Seldom Scene, Blackhawk, Doc & Merle Watson, Asleep At The Wheel, Dionne Warwick, Toby Keith, Gene Watson, Margo Smith, Tom Wopat, Mark Wills, The Kendalls, Porter Wagoner, Sha Na Na, Moe Bandy, Clint Eastwood, Joe Diffie, Hank Thompson, Mila Mason, Doug Supernaw, The Road Hammers (Canada), Tyler England, Bill Medley, Clifford Curry, Doug Stone, Charley Pride, Hey Romeo (Canada), Gil Grand (Canada), Gord Bamford (Canada), Rockie Lynne, Drew Fish, Curtis Grimes, Charles Esten & Connie Britton (from the Nashville TV series), Dailey & Vincent, and many others. Byron’s discography also includes songs that have been released in numerous feature films for Paramount Pictures, Avco-Embassy Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, Rochford Films, Life Out Loud Films and others, and in network and cable TV shows and series for Hallmark, Lifetime, PBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, Fox News, CBS, GAC, CMT, Turner Network, E!, FSN, TNN, USA, Spike, CBC, VH-1, AFN, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Fremantle Australia, Seven Network (Australia), and others.

Byron was raised in North Carolina in a family of six. In 1953 the family lived in Winston-Salem, and soon after moved to the nearby community of South Fork. It was the perfectly-imperfect setting for a family in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s… a school, two churches, a volunteer fire department, a barber shop, a beauty shop, a doctor, a veterinarian, a drugstore, a grocery store, a cloth shop, a couple of gas stations, and the freedom of innocent times for kids to run through fields, creeks, woods, and fading farmland, while only a few miles from the textile mills, cigarette factories, and the location of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in America. The chances were pretty good that someone in the family might find a way to put some of that “Americana” into songs. Byron’s father played guitar and harmonica, and often sang old Carter Family songs around the house. By the age of 10 Byron was learning how to play guitar and was writing songs by the age of 16. In 1976 at the age of 22, he began taking his songs to Nashville and finally moved there and signed his first publishing deal in 1978.