Jim Weatherly: Midnight Train to Georgia songwriter dies aged 77 – BBC News

“I’m missing him already,” Gladys Knight told the Jackson Clarion Ledger. “I love him and always will. He was about life and love and he wrote it so simply, he grew my love for country music. When we were with him it was like we’d always been together, we fit together. He started playing his guitar, and I started humming and it was magic.