![]() ![]() It’s the passing of another piece of Nashville emotional history, back when Kris Kristofferson was the most talented janitor in town.”īorn Garland Perry Cochran on August 2nd, 1935 in Isola, Mississippi, the musician spent some of his childhood in a Memphis orphanage and eventually dropped out of school. “Anything by Hank Cochran is going to be good or great. “He wrote some of the classics - it’s impossible to have a favorite,” Kinky Friedman tells Rolling Stone. “He was a great friend, and a great mentor, and he was responsible for some of the music that inspired me to do what I do,” Merle Haggard said in a statement. Cochran was a Nashville titan in the 1960s, writing Patsy Cline’s first Number One hit, “I Fall to Pieces.” He later penned tracks for George Jones, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn. Country legend Hank Cochran died yesterday at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. ![]()
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