{"id":45482,"date":"2025-09-22T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=45482"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:30:23","slug":"songwriter-brett-james-remembered-by-country-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/songwriter-brett-james-remembered-by-country-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Songwriter Brett James Remembered By Country Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville was saddened by the passing of Brett James and his family, who lost their lives in a plane crash on Thursday, September 18.<\/p>\n<p>Brett is a singer and songwriter who has worked with dozens of country stars. He\u00a0wrote one of Carrie Underwood&#8217;s biggest hits, &#8220;Jesus Take the Wheel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Carrie had to say,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome things are just unfathomable. The loss of Brett James to his family, friends, and our music community is too great to put into words. Brett&#8217;s passing is leaving a hole in all of us that I fear won&#8217;t ever go away. It will forever be a reminder that this life is but a moment . . . we have to make the most of each day we&#8217;re given here on Earth. Each day is a gift . . . Love you, man. I&#8217;ll see you again someday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOyxWbWgO7T\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Brett also wrote\u00a0Kenny Chesney\u2019s \u201cWhen the Sun Goes Down,&#8221; and hits for Billy Ray Cyrus, Martina McBride, and Rascal Flatts, with Jessica Andrews\u2019 2001 tune, \u201cWho I Am,\u201d becoming his first country number one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus, Take the Wheel\u201d earned James a 2006 Grammy for Best Country Song, as well as the 2005 ACM Single of the Year and the 2006 ASCAP Country Song of the Year.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOxAhqSjVVj\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Remembers Her Late Friend Brett James","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":45301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6638,96,6640,167,6639,4517,6641],"class_list":["post-45482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-brett-james","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-jesus-take-the-wheel","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-plane-crash","tag-songwriter","tag-when-the-sun-goes-down"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 23:38:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/songwriter-brett-james-remembered-by-country-stars\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45493,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482\/revisions\/45493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}