Biography
Hal Bynum first gained recognition in country and bluegrass circles through his songwriting, supplying more than fifty compositions that found recordings across the 1950s and 1960s. After setting aside a string of temporary positions, he relocated to Nashville in 1968 to focus exclusively on music. Tracks including “The Old, Old House,” cut by both George Jones and Bill Monroe, “Lucille” for Kenny Rogers, and “Chains” recorded by Patty Loveless earned him induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He waited years before stepping forward as a vocalist, favoring an emphatically storytelling approach; his first album, It’s My Time, appeared on the independent Vision imprint in 1995. A subsequent agreement with Warner Bros. yielded the 1998 follow-up If I Could Do Anything. His own Beauregard Records then issued the 2002 collection The Promise, which became his last release. On June 2, 2022, Hal Bynum died at age 87 following a stroke, after living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
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