We’ll miss you,” the Grand Ole Opry tweeted Friday.įellow performers also hailed Hall’s legacy. He was a storyteller, a philosopher, a whiskey maker, a novelist, a poet, a painter, a benefactor, a letter writer, a gift giver, a gentleman farmer, and many more things.” “He wrote without judgment or anger, offering a rhyming journalism of the heart that sets his compositions apart from any other writer. Hall’s masterworks vary in plot, tone, and tempo, but they are bound by his ceaseless and unyielding empathy for the triumphs and losses of others,” Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum CEO Kyle Young said Friday. Riley, as well as other songs such as “A Week in a Country Jail,” “I Love,” “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died,” and “I Like Beer.” He’s known for writing the 1968 hit “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” made popular by Jeannie C.

Hall was dubbed “The Storyteller” by Country Music Hall of Fame member Tex Ritter, and wrote songs “distinguished by their narrative quality, their rich detail, and their keen insight into the beauty of everyday life,” the Hall of Fame said in its appreciation. Hall, who was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008. “Our family asks for privacy during this difficult time,” Dean Hall said in a tweet, Hall died Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, at the age of 85, according to his son.

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