Who AM I?

Disqualified from WWII service because of a back injury suffered while bull riding in Texas.Worked as a shipbuilder in Mobile and Portland for a short time.Met first wife at a medicine show in Banks, Alabama.Married by a Justice of the Peace in 1944 at a Texaco gas station in Andalusia, Alabama.Could not read a note of music; however, changed country music in many, m...