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In a May 1, 2005 photo provided by the Country Music Hall of Fame, Jim Foglesong is honored at the Medallion Ceremony honoring him, in Nashville, Tenn. He is pictured with fellow Hall of Fame member Jo Walker-Meador. Foglesong, a music producer who helped launch Garth Brooks’ career and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, died Tuesday, July 9, in Nashville, says a spokeswoman at Vanderbilt University\'s Blair School of Music, where Foglesong has been a faculty member since 1991. He was 90. (AP Photo/Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Donn Jones)

Jim Foglesong, a producer, record label executive and Country Hall of Fame member, dies

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Jim Foglesong, a record label executive and music producer who helped launch Garth Brooks’ career and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90.

Kristin Whittlesey is a spokeswoman at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where Foglesong had been a faculty member since 1991. She says she Foglesong died Tuesday in Nashville of natural causes.

Foglesong is a West Virginia native. He began his career in New York as a session singer, producer and record executive and moved to Nashville in 1970 after helping Columbia Records launch subsidiary Epic. In Nashville, he was president of Capitol Records from 1984-89 and he helped launch Brooks’ career.

He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

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