 He also returned to writing and producing music, the latter of which he had done since the 1960s.Drusky's membership with the Grand Ole Opry ensured him exposure for decades long after the radio hits stopped coming.He appeared regularly on the program until the year of his death, singing the hit songs he had racked up in the 1960s and 1970s in addition to performing country standards from other artists, which became a tradition at the Opry.