Jim Ed Brown, star of the Grand Ole Opry has died June 11, 2015, at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, TN.

Jim Ed Brown has been battling lung cancer diagnosed in 2014. He was most recently inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame after more than 50 years in country music. Jim Ed Brown was born in Sparkman, Arkansas on April 1, 1934. He spent his young days working on his family farm, without electricity, listening to the Grand Old Opry on a battery operated Radio.

The Country Music Hall of Fame posted

From 1967 through 1974, Mr. Brown also reached  the Top Ten of the country charts with singles “Morning,” “Southern Loving,”  “Sometime Sunshine” and “It’s That Time of Night.” In 1976, he began recording  duets with Helen Cornelius, logging a No. 1 country hit with “I Don’t Want to  Have to Marry You.” With Cornelius, Mr. Brown won a CMA Vocal Duo of the Year  award and reached country’s Top Ten with “Saying Hello, Saying I Love You,  Saying Goodbye,” “If the World Ran Out of Love Tonight,” “Lying in Love with  You,” "Fools,” and “Morning Comes Too Early.”

In September of 2014, after being diagnosed with cancer, he recorded and released his first album in 40 years, "In Style Again." It featured duets with Vince Gill and The Whites.

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