{"id":106269,"date":"2021-08-22T17:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T22:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106269"},"modified":"2021-08-22T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T22:21:28","slug":"singer-songwriter-tom-t-hall-dead-at-85-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106269","title":{"rendered":"Singer-Songwriter Tom T. Hall Dead at 85 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106269\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-106270 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Country music\u2019s Thomas T. Hall, who became known to fans as \u201cThe Storyteller\u201d, died August 20, 2021 in Franklin, Tennessee. The cause of death has not been disclosed. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Hall got his start as a songwriter in the early 1960s, when he moved to Nashville. Hall penned songs for country artists including Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings and Alan Jackson. One of his earliest successes was for writing \u201cHarper Valley PTA\u201d, recorded in 1968.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hall\u2019s discography includes 35 studio albums, 9 compilation albums, and 50 singles, including his biggest hits \u201cI Love\u201d, \u201cThe Year That Clayton Delaney Died\u201d, \u201cA Week in Country Jail\u201d, \u201cI Washed My Face in The Morning Dew\u201d, \u201cHomecoming\u201d, and \u201cShoeshine Man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hall\u2019s awards and accolades include the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1973, the Bluegrass Song Writer of the Year award, which he was presented with 12 times between 2002 and 2015, and is included in Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Songwriters.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Tom T. Hall\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Country music\u2019s Thomas T. Hall, who became known to fans as \u201cThe Storyteller\u201d, died August 20, 2021 in Franklin, Tennessee. The cause of death has not been disclosed. He was 85. Hall got his start as a songwriter in the early 1960s, when he moved to Nashville. Hall penned songs for country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[27249],"class_list":["post-106269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-singer-songwriter-tom-t-hall-dead-at-85-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106269"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}