“I’m missing Jim Weatherly already. He was about life and love,” tweeted Gladys Knight.
Friends and fans are paying tribute to Weatherly, a singer-songwriter who penned a number of hits, including “Midnight Train to Georgia,” “Neither One of Us” and “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me.” Weatherly died at his home in Brentwood, Tenn., on Feb. 3 at age 77, historian and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame board member Robert K. Oermann wrote in MusicRow magazine.
Weatherly’s friend Charlie Monk told the Tennessean that his family attributes his death to natural causes.
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