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Although he charted no significant hits and died in obscurity, Tibby Edwards was one of those unsung performers who affected almost everyone who heard him. Born Edwin Thibodeaux in Garland, LA, on March 19, 1935, Edwards spent his childhood in the Louisiana and West Texas region, acquiring early the subtle Cajun influences that would inform his later music. He began singing and playing guitar as a teen and soon fell under the spell of honky tonk singers Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell. Edwards eventually met Frizzell in 1949 and became a protégé, touring with Frizzell for a period of time before settling in Beaumont, TX. His big break came when he began appearing while still a teenager on KWKH's Louisiana Hayride, a gig he held for five years. While appearing on the Hayride, he met a young Elvis Presley and was soon a convert to the emerging rockabilly craze. Signed to Mercury Records in 1953, Edwards released at least two stone cold rockabilly classics, a version of Big Joe Turner's ...