Country musician and leading fiddler who began his music career as part
of Bill Monroe's bluegrass band in 1949. Later went on to fiddle for
Johnny Cash, Faron Young and Merle Haggard.
Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, he first performed at age
9 at the Grand Ol' Opry and won the Alabama Fiddling Championship in
Birmingham at age 14.
His namesake is the Gordon Terry Parkway - Alabama 24 between Moulton
and Decatur, named for him in the late 1980s.