Carrie Underwood is mourning the death of her longtime friend and collaborator Brett James. 

The Grammy-winning songwriter was among three people who died Sept. 18 after a small plane crashed near Franklin, North Carolina.

James wrote a number of Underwood’s hit songs like “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” which earned him his first Grammy win, “Flat On the Floor” and “Cowboy Casanova,” among others. 

Sharing photos of them together, Underwood called his death “unfathomable.” On Instagram on Sept. 19, she wrote that the loss is “too great to put into words,” before reflecting on their time together. 

“Brett was the epitome of ‘cool.’ I see him in my mind riding up to my cabins to write on his motorcycle… his hair somehow perfectly coiffed despite being under a helmet for however long,” Underwoo

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