Dave Loggins dies: Please Come to Boston singer dead at 76 as tributes pour in

Country singer Dave Loggins has died at the age of 76 .

The musician, who wrote the Masters golf tournament theme song Augusta and had a solo hit with the 1974 track Please Come to Boston, died on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. His cause of death is yet to be revealed.

Tributes have been pouring in from fans on social media. "RIP Dave Loggins - fantastic longtime, award-winning songwriter and native of nearby Shady Valley, TN. Please Come To Boston will always be one of my all-time faves," one person wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter . Another said: "We lost a great talent in Dave Loggins."

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Dave was said to be in hospice care when he died, according to The Tennessean . He died at the Alive Hospice. The singer was one of Tennessee's most notable songwriters, having penned tracks for stars such as Johnny Cash, Reba McEntire and Willie Nelson.

He also wrote songs for Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Wynonna Judd. Dave was the only unsigned artist to win a CMA Award, which he received in 1986 for his duet with Anne Murray titled Nobody Loves Me Like You Do.

Dave was also nominated for four Grammy Awards over the course of his career. He was nominated in 174 for Best Pop Vocal Performance and in 1984 for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group. In 1985 and 1992, he was nominated for Best Country Song.

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During his career, Dave was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The singer had told the institution that he thought his career highlights were "touring England in the early '70s with the Everly Brothers, meeting John Lennon at the Grammys in '75, and writing six number one records and not winning songwriter of the year, and then having seven the next year to win."

Dave is best known for writing Augusta, the theme song for the Masters. He was inspired to write the song while golfing on the Augusta National course in Georgia.

"I stopped for a minute, looked up at the pine trees and the wind down there was just different in some regards," he told the AP in 2019. "Spiritually it was different. That course was just a piece of art."

"I looked over at some dogwoods and, man, I just started writing the song in my head which is what I do when I get inspired. I had the first verse before I even got off the course."

Dave was the cousin of Kenny Loggins, known for hits such as Footloose and Danger Zone. He's survived by his three sons - Quinn Loggins, Kyle Loggins, and Dylan Loggins - and grandson Braxton Loggins.