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After the brutal year the country music community endured in 2020, it appears as though 2021 is picking up right where we left off.
Famous country music singer/songwriter Ed Bruce passed away last night at the age of 81 due to natural causes in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Bruce was a highly touted songwriter in the 1970s and 1980’s, who is most well known for writing
Waylon Jennings’ hit song, “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys.”
Bruce originally sang the song, and it peaked at number 15 on the Hot Country Singles chart in 1976. Perhaps the song is most well known for Waylon Jennings’ and Willie Nelson’s version, which hit number one in 1978. Nelson and Jennings won a Grammy for “Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” in 1979 with the song. It was also voted by the Western Writers of America as one of the top 100 western songs of all time.
Iconic Singer/Songwriter and Actor Ed Bruce Dead at 81
Country singer-songwriter and actor William Edwin Bruce Jr. (Ed Bruce) has died in Tennessee, his publicist confirmed. He was 81.
Bruce, best known for co-writing “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” together with his wife Patsy Bruce in 1975, died from natural causes in his Clarksville home on Friday, his publicist confirmed to Fox News.
A rendition of the hit song originally recorded by Bruce peaked the country music charts about three years later, spending four weeks at No. 1 after Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings cut the song on their 1978 duet album.