brett james

To boil Brett James down to any two or three songs would be lazy, insincere and just plane rude.

As Kip Moore grapples with the loss of his mentor, the music world feels the weight of a talented songwriter gone too soon.

It was a particularly sad year at the Grand Ole Opry.

A preliminary report on the plane crash that killed Brett James last month provides some answers about what went wrong.

'I feel as if part of my creative soul went with him,' Chesney says.

"Some things are unfathomable," Underwood begins.

This story just took an even more tragic turn.

The 57-year-old is most closely associated with kick-starting Carrie Underwood's career and feeding her hit songs early and often.

It's not just about the charts any longer.

"Sometimes, we think people know, so we don’t have to say it, but no one ever doesn’t want to hear that they are loved ..."