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.

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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 hai

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