Grand Ole Opry star Jim Ed Brown dies aged 81 after battle with lung cancer!

Jim Ed Brown, a star on the Grand Ole Opry radio program for more than a half-century, died on Thursday night in a Nashville-area hospital at the age of 81. Brown died at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee after a long battle with lung cancer, according to Webster Public Relations. Bobby Bare, who produced some of Brown's work and was a long-time friend, told Reuters: 'He had class and he had style and he had a great voice... He was a real artist.'


Brown is set to be inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame set for this fall, an honor he had been looking forward to receiving. 'Fame is fleeting, hit records change every week, award show winners and nominees change every year, but being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame will be forever,' the ailing singer said after learning of the honor. Brown was raised on his family's farm in Sparkman, Arkansas, where every Saturday night the family would gather around a battery-powered radio to listen to the Grand Ole Opry.

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