MOULTRIE, Ga. — Do you remember Boudleaux Bryant?

Bryant — born in Shellman, Ga., and raised in Moultrie — and his wife, Felice, wrote some of country music’s greatest songs. They penned “Rocky Top,” one of Tennessee’s nine state songs, as well as several hits for The Everly Brothers.

A celebration of Bryant’s life will begin next year and extend into 2020, when he would have celebrated his 100th birthday, according to his son, Del Bryant.

One part of that celebration is a book now being written by Bob Malone, a historian known for writing “The History of Country Music.”

Del Bryant said Malone is still looking for local people who knew his father to get stories and information for his book. As a young man, Boudleaux Bryant performed with Gene Mills and the Twilight Playboys here, and while Boudleaux and Felice Bryant moved to Nashville in 1950, they returned to visit relatives  for years afterwards. Del Bryant was born in Moultrie.

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“It would be great,” Del Bryant said. “It would be coming from a different pocket of information.”

The book is one of several aspects of the centennial celebration, he said:

• Bryant’s family has donated a vast assortment of memorabilia to the Country Music Hall of Fame for an exhibit that will begin at the end of September 2019.

• Broadcast Music Inc. — or BMI, a music rights management company — plans an honor for the Bryants in 2019, Del Bryant said. Del Bryant is a retired executive with BMI, but he said details of the recognition haven’t been announced yet.

• Filmmaker Ken Burns will release a documentary about country music in September 2019. Del Bryant said his mother and father have a segment in the film.

• The American Music Association will recognize Boudleaux Bryant in 2019.

• The Nashville Symphony will present an evening of Bryant’s music in February 2020 — and the date may even fall on Bryant’s birthday, Feb. 13.

• The Georgia Music Foundation plans to include a tribute to Bryant in the Seventh Annual Georgia On My Mind concert set for the summer of 2020 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

“There’s just a lot that’s going to be going on,” Del Bryant said. “… Everyone we spoke to is very excited to celebrate the music they brought to the world.”