who wrote the song i'll fly away?
(The experience came complete with a guy in a Buttweiser T-shirt that proclamed him the King of Rears.) Hear about the whole epic debacle here. I'll Fly Away was originally written by Albert Brumley in 1929, and since then it's become one of the most covered songs of all time. It's been performed by everyone from Andy Griffith to Kanye West.