{"id":68956,"date":"2019-09-30T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/well-known-songwriter-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:10:00","slug":"well-known-songwriter-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/09\/well-known-songwriter-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Known Songwriter Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Ip8Tyj1QkI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer Busbee, who&#8217;s worked with country artists like Maren Morris, Lady Antebellum, Garth Brooks, and other has died.<\/p>\n<p>Michael James Ryan was 43.<\/p>\n<p>According to a friend, Busbee was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, over the summer and was undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Although he worked with pop stars like Christina Aguilera, Shakira, 5 Seconds of Summer, and Pink, Busbee found his greatest success in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>He co-wrote Florida Georgia Line\u2019s Number One ballad \u201cH.O.L.Y.,\u201d Rascal Flatts\u2019 \u201cSummer Nights,\u201d Lady Antebellum\u2019s \u201cYou Look Good,\u201d and Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood\u2019s collaboration \u201cThe Fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also co-wrote Garth Brooks\u2019 \u201cPeople Loving People,\u201d the superstar\u2019s first single after a lengthy retirement, Carly Pearce\u2019s \u201cEvery Little Thing,\u201d and a number of hits on Morris\u2019 2016 album Hero, including \u201c80s Mercedes,\u201d \u201cOnce,\u201d and her breakout single \u201cMy Church,\u201d for which he earned a Grammy nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer Busbee, who&#8217;s worked with country artists like Maren Morris, Lady Antebellum, Garth Brooks, and other has died.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":68957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[2180,690,495,1369,475,485,550,1277,506],"class_list":["post-68956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-busbee","tag-carly-pearce","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-florida-georgia-line","tag-garth-brooks","tag-keith-urban","tag-lady-antebellum","tag-maren-morris","tag-rascal-flatts"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:39:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/09\/well-known-songwriter-passes-away\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}