Songwriter Jerry Chesnut – a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame whose compositions included “T-R-O-U-B-L-E” and “A Good Year For the Roses” – died Sunday at age 87.
The Kentucky native moved to Nashville in 1958 to pursue his songwriting career. It took nearly a decade for him to gain traction, when Del Reeves recorded his “A Dime at a Time” in 1967.
Through the late ’60s and ’70s, Chesnut penned hits for Johnny Cash (“Oney”), Faron Young (“It’s Four in the Morning”), Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton (“Holding on to Nothing”), Loretta Lynn (“They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy”) and Tammy Wynette (“The Wonders You Perform”), among others.
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