In the mid-1960s, he moved to Nashville, where he caught the eye of music legend Chet Atkins. He first established himself as a songwriter.

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Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said that at the time of Atkins' death, she had been in prison longer than any woman currently incarcerated in California.