Earl Thomas Conley Death
Earl passed away on April 10, 2019 at the age of 77 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Earl's cause of death was complications of dementia.
When did Earl Thomas Conley die?
April 10, 2019How did Earl Thomas Conley die? What was the cause of death?
Complications of dementiaHow old was Earl Thomas Conley when died?
77Where did Earl Thomas Conley die? What was the location of death?
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Earl Thomas Conley Birthday and Date of Death
Earl Thomas Conley was born on October 17, 1941 and died on April 10, 2019. Earl was 77 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: October 17, 1941
Date of Death: April 10, 2019
Age at Death: 77
Earl Thomas Conley - Biography
Earl Thomas Conley (born October 17, 1941, Portsmouth, Ohio, United States) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which eighteen reached Number One. Conley's eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade except for Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.
Feeling that he wasn't making any progress in Nashville, Conley moved to Huntsville, Alabama, to work in a steel mill. There, he met record producer Nelson Larkin, who helped him sign with independent record label GRT in 1974. Conley released four singles on that label, none of which became large hits. At the same time, he was selling songs that he had written to other artists, including Conway Twitty and Mel Street, who were having much success with them.
By the end of the 1980s, Conley began collaborating with Randy Scruggs (son of country singer Earl Scruggs), in the hopes that he could bring his music back to his country roots. His record sales began to drop in the 1990s, as country took a more progressive turn, and Conley was dropped from his record label in 1992. He took a seven-year recording hiatus between 1991 and 1997 due to a number of factors, including vocal problems, disenchantment with record label politics, road fatigue, and mental burnout. He began recording again in 1998.
In late 2013, Conley gave a telephone interview with Pods o' Pop. Conley recalls that he may be the only country artist to appear on the Soul Train television program (he performed his duet with Pointer) and goes into detail about the string of hits Randy Scruggs and he co-wrote.
