Bill Cody, a Country Radio Hall of Famer who hosted the Grand Ole Opry along with a decades-running morning show on WSM radio, has died at 67.
Dierks Bentley said Cody was 'just as important to the fabric of our music and city as any artist, songwriter or musician.
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In sharing news of his passing Tuesday night, David wrote on Facebook, “We will never be able to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and the sincere prayers over the last few weeks. We know God heard them and we feel a deep peace that one day we will understand why God chose to still take him.
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Cody also received a star on the Music City Walk of Fame in 2024, and he will be posthumously inducted into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame later this year. Said Garth Brooks, “There might be someone somewhere in the world who loved country music as much, but nobody loved country music more than Bill Cody. ” Wrote Dierks Bentley: “Country music has lost one of its pillars.
Bill was just as important to the fabric of our music and city as any artist, songwriter or musician. No one loved country music, its history and its characters more than Bill Cody. Prayers to his family and Charlie and Kelly and everyone that knew and loved him at WSM and the Opry. ” Said Carly Pearce, “Bill Cody devoted his life to telling the story of country music.
With a legacy spanning decades, he will be marked as one of the greatest of all time. For me, he was so much more than that. He was my friend. He will be so very missed on this side of heaven, but I rejoice knowing he is with our Heavenly Father.
” He was also remembered in a statement from Patrick Moore, CEO of Opry Entertainment.
“Everyone at the Grand Ole Opry, in country music, in Nashville — and across the country — will remember Bill for his profound gravitas, his incredible voice, and his positive and infectious enthusiasm for country music,” Moore said. “For those of us who were lucky enough to work with Bill as a colleague, he brightened every single day and changed our lives for the better. Bill will be sorely missed. Rest in Peace, Trent from Gravel Switch.
” Cody began his radio career at age 17 when he answered a helf-wanted notice for Lexington, Kentucky station WVLK. The station asked that he drop his real name, Trent Clutts, and he adopted the nom de plume of Bill Cody in honor of a childhood hero, “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
He developed his love for radio as the son of a Southern Baptist minister in Lebanon, Kentucky who recorded his weekly sermons every Sunday morning and dropped off a cassette tape at a local station to be broadcast in the afternoon.
“Cody, at 12 years old, found the visits to the radio station so fascinating that his father arranged for him to spend time there occasionally, seeing the magic of broadcasting up close,” his official obituary said. At the Opry, Cody hosted “Opry Country Classics” as well as regular weekend editions of the Opry.
Other hosting credits included “Master Series” for GAC, “Tennessee’s Wild Side” for public television, and the syndicated radio shows “Classic Country Weekend With Bill Cody” and “Pure American Country. ” Saturday night’s live broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry will be dedicated to Cody.
WSM said it will honor its anchor personality in days to come with “a special marathon of unforgettable moments from ‘Coffee, Country & Cody,’ celebrating a legacy that will forever be part of our station and our community. ”Paramount Accuses Netflix of ‘Panic-Level’ ‘Scorched-Earth Campaign’ to ‘Poison’ Regulators Against Warner Bros.
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