Tom T. Hall, country music storyteller who sang about life's simple joys, has died at age 85, his son says.
Tom T. Hall accepts the Icon Award at the 60th Annual BMI Country Awards in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 30, 2012.NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue-collar bard, has died. He was 85.
“In all my writing, I’ve never made judgments,” he said in 1986. “I think that’s my secret. I’m a witness. I just watch everything and don’t decide if it’s good or bad.” Hall settled in Nashville in 1964 and first established himself as a songwriter making $50 a week. He wrote songs for Jimmy C. Newman, Dave Dudley and Johnny Wright, but he had so many songs that he began recording them himself. The middle initial “T” was added when he got his recording contract to make the name catchier.
His own career took off after that song and he had a string of hits with “Ballad of Forty Dollars” ; his first career No. 1 hit “A Week in a Country Jail,” and “Homecoming,” in the late 1960s. He also penned songs for children on his records “Songs of Fox Hollow ” in 1974 and “Country Songs for Kids,” in 1988. He also became an author, writing a book about songwriting, “The Songwriter’s Handbook,” and an autobiography, “The Songwriter’s Nashville,” as well as fiction novels.
He was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and in 2012, he was honored as the BMI Icon of the year, with artists such as the Avett Brothers, bluegrass stars Daily & Vincent, Toby Keith and Justin Townes Earle paying tribute to the songwriting legend. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019.
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