Tibby edwards biography

Tibby Edwards (born Edwin M. Thibodeaux) had a musical career that landed him a regular spot on the "KWKH Louisiana Hayride" at seventeen and a contract with Mercury Records at eighteen.

After military service, he did not pursue his career with much vigor and became a part-time performer.

Tibby edwards biography

By the 1980's, he was working primarily as a paper hanger, despite having some excellent country and rockabilly numbers in his prime years.

Edwards hailed from Garland, Louisiana and had a strong Cajun ethnic background. His father worked in construction and so the Edwards family moved around Louisiana and East Texas frequently.

Edwards met aspiring musician Lefty Frizzell about 1949, and became a virtual prot�g� of the older man who's career took off the next year. After that Edwards sang in the clubs around Beaumont as did other aspiring musicians as Benny Barnes and George Jones.

Then in December 1952, he landed a regular spot on the Hayride about the same time that Hank Williams left to