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In the wake of Oh Lonesome Me, Gibson became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He developed an early love of music. This understated gift for melancholy earned him a nickname, "The Sad Poet." Unfortunately, that sadness extended into his own life. These accomplishments were even more remarkable because Gibson achieved them while suffering from personal problems and drug abuse.

By 1967, Gibson had married Bobbi Patterson and was making a fresh start with Hickory Records, moved to Nashville, and once again began to concentrate on his first love, songwriting.

He teamed up with Dottie West for a series of duet hits, including Rings Of Gold and There’s A Story (Goin’ ’Round).

But Gibson derailed his own career with drug and alcohol problems, troubles that he would later acknowledge in interviews. He pioneered a new country-soul styling with deep-felt, emotional versions of country classics like I Love You Because and Release Me gaining him even more artistic acclaim.

When the pop hits dried up in the early 1960s, he continued to dominate country music with biggies like I Can Mend Your Broken Heart, (Yes) I’m Hurting, Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings, Woman (Sensuous Woman), Touch The Morning, and One Day At A Time right through to the mid-1970s.

With success an uneasy fit for the shy artist, Gibson turned to pills and booze. Had he only been a songwriter, he would have ranked among Nashville’s most substantial song scribes. A year before that big hit Gibson was living in an East Tennessee trailer park when, according to legend, he wrote Oh Lonesome Me and I Can’t Stop Loving You in one afternoon.

In 1958, Gibson married Polly Bratcher Gibson. In 1970 he joined Hickory Records (a subsidiary of his long-time publishers Acuff-Rose) and alongside solo hits, joined Sue Thompson on several duets. He began playing guitar in his early teens and when a friend came home from Paris after World War II with records by the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, Gibson was captivated, and was experimenting with different styles by his mid-teens.

Gibson was defensive with his appearance that he would even avoid walking into crowded places. Such Gibson songs as I Can’t Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me, Sweet Dreams and Blue, Blue Day, all played their major roles in bringing to the world at large the message about the freshness, the skill and the talent of the Nashville songwriting community.

Gibson would only accept the deal if he was allowed to record. A string of hits followed, including: Don’t Tell Me Your Troubles, Just One Time, Lonesome Number One and Sea of Heartbreak.

— Stacey Wolfe

Adapted from the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s Encyclopedia of Country Music, published by Oxford University Press