He was born William Edward Grishaw in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, and he renamed himself after a favorite piece of music, The Zeb Turner Stomp.[1] With his brother James (who took the stage name Zeke Turner), also a guitarist, he backed artists such as Hank Williams and Red Foley in the years after World War II. He co-wrote it is a Sin, a number one hit on the country chart for Eddy A