Who AM I?

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Stories I Should Have Told Sooner
Stories I Should Have Told Sooner
Stories I Should Have Told Sooner

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, many ways.

Picked up a phony doct…