See every Country artist who has ever performed on Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is one of the longest-running TV shows in American history. Every show features a celebrity guest host and two performances by a musical act each week. The show returns for its 51st season on Saturday, October 4th, at 11:30 on NBC.

It isn’t often, but there have been several episodes where Country music stars have either hosted or performed live from Studio 8H on Saturday nights. So take a look at our list below and see every time someone in Country music either hosted or performed on Saturday Night Live.

List of Country music bands/artists that have hosted or performed on Saturday Night Live

Season 1

• Kris Kristofferson as host on July 31st, 1976

Season 2

• John Prine as musical guest on October 16th, 1976
• Kinky Friedman as musical guest on October 23rd, 1976

Season 3

• Willie Nelson as musical guest on December 10th, 1977
• The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as musical guest on January 21st, 1978

Season 4

• Linda Ronstadt as musical guest on May 19th, 1979

Season 6

• Linda Ronstadt as musical guest on December 20th, 1980

Season 7

• The Charlie Daniels Band as musical guest on April 24th, 1982

Season 12

• Willie Nelson - Host and musical guest on February 21st, 1987

Season 13

• Linda Ronstadt as musical guest on December 19th, 1987
• Randy Travis - Musical guest - February 20th, 1988

Season 14

• Cowboy Junkies as musical guests on February 18th, 1989
• Dolly Parton - Host and musical guests on April 15th, 1989

Season 15

• The Notting Hillbillies as musical guests on May 19th, 1990

Season 17

• Garth Brooks as musical guest on March 14th, 1992

Season 18

• Willie Nelson as musical guest on May 15th, 1993

Season 19

• Dwight Yoakam as musical guest on April 9th, 1994

Season 23

• Garth Brooks as host and musical guest on February 28th, 1998

Season 25

• Garth Brooks as host and Chris Gaines as musical guest on November 13th, 1999
• Kid Rock as musical guest on May 20th, 2000

Season 28

• Faith Hill as musical guest on October 12th, 2002
• The Chicks as musical guests on February 8th, 2003

Season 31

• Carrie Underwood as musical guest on March 24th, 2007

Season 33

• Carrie Underwood as musical guest on February 23rd, 2008

Season 34

• Tim McGraw as host on November 22nd, 2008

• Taylor Swift as musical guest on January 10th, 2009

Season 35

• Taylor Swift as host and musical guest on November 7th, 2009

Season 37

• Lady A as musical guest on October 1st, 2011

Season 40

• Blake Shelton as host and musical guest on January 24th, 2015

• Zac Brown Band as musical guest on March 7th, 2015

Season 41

• Chris Stapleton as musical guest on January 16th, 2016

Season 42

• Maren Morris as musical guest on December 10th, 2016
• Sturgill Simpson as musical guest on January 14th, 2017

Season 43

• Jason Aldean with a special musical performance on October 20th, 2017

• Chris Stapleton as musical guest on January 27th, 2018

• Kacey Musgraves as musical guest on May 12th, 2018

Season 44

• Thomas Rhett as musical guest on March 2nd, 2019

Season 45

• Luke Combs as musical guest on February 1st, 2020

Season 46

• Morgan Wallen as musical guest on December 5th, 2020

Season 47

• Kacey Musgraves as musical guest on October 2nd, 2021

• Post Malone as musical guest on May 14th, 2022

Season 48

• Kelsea Ballerini as musical guest on March 4th, 2023

Season 49

• Kacey Musgraves as musical guest on March 2nd, 2024

• Chris Stapleton as musical guest on April 13th, 2024

Season 50

• Shaboozey as musical guest on December 7th, 2024

• Morgan Wallen as musical guest on March 29th, 2025

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