Rockabilly musician who worked with Sun Records Studio and wrote "Blue Suede Shoes."
He learned the guitar from a black farmhand named John Westbrook. He grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry.
On his final album, which was released two years before he died, he sang with Bono,
He married Valda Crider in 1953. He had three sons named Stan, Greg, and Steve, and a daughter, Debbie.
Elvis Presley famously covered his hit song, "Blue Suede Shoes."
