Country music songwriter Brett James — known for hits like Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” and Kenny Chesney’s “When the Sun Goes Down” — has died in a plane crash alongside his wife and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country music songwriter Brett James — known for hits like Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” and Kenny Chesney’s “When the ...

Brett James Cornelius, a Grammy-winning Nashville songwriter known professionally as Brett James, died on Sept. 18 after a small-engine plane crashed in a field in Franklin, North Carolina. "We mourn ...

Grammy Award-winning songwriter Brett James, who wrote some of the biggest country music hits of the past two decades, died Thursday in a plane crash. He was 57. Mr. James was one of three people on ...

Brett James, the Grammy-winning songwriter behind Carrie Underwood’s country hit “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” is dead at 57. He was “killed in a small-engine airplane crash” on September 19, the Nashville ...