Remembering Brett James Grammy-Winning Songwriter
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Brett James, the Grammy Award-winning songwriter behind some of country music’s biggest hits, including “Jesus Take the Wheel” and “I Hold On,” was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina on Thursday. We wanted to take a look back on when Brett stopped by the BobbyCast in 2022. Brett was a Grammy award-winning songwriter, has had more than 500 cuts, appearing on albums with combined sales of over 110 million copies, and 27 No. 1 hits. Brett had a fascinating journey to Nashville. He talked to Bobby about how he went from medical school to pursuing a career as a solo country artist in the 90’s. Brett shared how it all started with him writing one song that led to him getting major cuts for Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley and more. RIP Brett James.
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| 0:32.7 | Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey guys, Bobby here. We're going to do a Brett James replay of an episode we did a few years ago. And so it's a remembering episode of Brett James. A lot of people had messaged me going, hey, did you do a podcast with them? Or they didn't know how to find it. So we're just going to repost it back up at the top and just talk for a second before we get back into it. This episode is remembering |
| 0:54.7 | Brett James, who I'd done this podcast with him. I'd worked with him a couple times after. We had |
| 1:00.3 | recently done the movie theater show. I was Brett and a couple other writers myself and from Nashville. |
| 1:09.4 | We had a bunch of accomplished songwriters playing songs and it was going |
| 1:12.2 | into movie theaters all over the country, kind of an experimental deal. But Brett was super kind. Obviously |
| 1:18.0 | super successful, very well loved. He had released a handful of country songs before he really took |
| 1:25.4 | on the, I mean, so successful songwriting career that people know |
| 1:30.1 | them for now, Brett James died in the plane crash. According to reports, a small plane went down |
| 1:35.5 | in Macon County near Franklin, North Carolina around 3 p.m. on Thursday. Brett was flying with |
| 1:40.9 | his wife and his 28-year-old daughter who had just celebrated her birthday, |
| 1:44.9 | and the plane crashed and killed them. |
| 1:47.4 | Brett James was a Grammy Award winner and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. |
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