Tom T. Hall's death at 85 ruled a suicide by medical officials after he died in Tennessee in August
dailymail.co.ukTom T. Hall's death at 85 last summer was ruled as a suicide by officials with the Williamson County Medical Examiner's office.Hall's 'manner of death was ruled a suicide,' a spokesperson for the office confirmed to The Sun Wednesday.Authorities said Hall 'had sustained an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, to the head' and was pronounced dead less than 20 minutes later when paramedics and police responded to a 911 call, according to the blog Saving Country Music.
The latest: Tom T. Hall's death at 85 last summer was ruled as a suicide by officials with the Williamson County Medical Examiner's office.
He was snapped in Nashville in 2012Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed Harper Valley PTA and sang about life's simple joys as country music's consummate blue collar bard, died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee August 20, 2021.Known as The Storyteller for his unadorned yet incisive lyrics, Hall composed hundreds of songs after beginning his career in the 1960s.Along with such contemporaries as Kris Kristofferson, John Hartford and Mickey Newbury, Hall helped usher in a literary era of country music in the early 1970s.
His songs ranged from the political, like Watergate Blues and The Monkey That Became President, deeply personal like The Year Clayton Delaney Died, and philosophical like (Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine.'In all my writing, I've never made judgments,' he said in 1986. 'I think that's my secret.
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