{"id":2035325,"date":"2025-09-19T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2035325"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:20:46","slug":"carrie-underwood-mourns-brett-james-after-fatal-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/carrie-underwood-mourns-brett-james-after-fatal-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Mourns Brett James After Fatal Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carrie Underwood<\/strong><\/a> is mourning the death of her frequent collaborator Brett James<\/span><\/a> <\/strong>after he died in a plane crash at the age of 57.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome things are just unfathomable. The loss of Brett James to his family, friends and our music community is too great to put into words,\u201d Underwood, 42, wrote via her Instagram<\/span><\/a> on Friday, September 19. \u201cBrett was the epitome of \u2018cool.\u2019 I see him in my mind riding up to my cabins to write on his motorcycle [and] his hair somehow perfectly coiffed despite being under a helmet for however long.\u201d<\/p>\n

James died on Thursday, September 18, <\/span><\/a>after a fatal plane crash in North Carolina with three other passengers. He is survived by his wife and their four children.<\/p>\n

James was a solo musician, who also frequently wrote songs for other artists. He cowrote Underwood\u2019s \u201cJesus, Take the Wheel,\u201d \u201cFlat on the Floor\u201d and \u201cCowboy Casanova.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Related: <\/span>Country Stars Mourn Songwriter Brett James After Fatal Plane Crash<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tThe country music world is honoring Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James after he died in a plane crash at age 57. James was one of three people onboard a plane that went down on Thursday, September 18, near North Carolina\u2019s Iotla Valley Elementary School. According to local news stations, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revealed in [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201c<\/span>I always loved hearing him sing \u2018Cowboy Casanova\u2019 because a sassy girl anthem should\u2019ve sounded ridiculous coming from a macho dude like him, but somehow, he even made that cool,\u201d Underwood added in her Friday tribute. \u201cHe was a good guy. I remember writing with him on a song that he basically wrote 75 percent of and had ready when he walked in the room. We filled in the blanks and added a little melody and I told him after that I didn\u2019t feel right splitting the credit evenly when he did most of the work. He wouldn\u2019t have it. He insisted that everything be equal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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