- Designed the Gibson Byrdland guitar with his close friend Hank Garland.
- Served in the U.S. Navy as a cook on a destroyer
- He spent many years performing with legends such as Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Burl Ives, Eddy Arnold, George Hamilton IV, George Morgan, The Lennon Sisters, Carl Smith, Ferlin Husky, Marty Robbins, Tex Ritter, Little Jimmy Dickens, Martha Carson, and a host of others.
- Eric Clapton played and owned a Gibson Byrdland Guitar designed by Byrd and Hank Garland.
- Rockstar Ted Nugent plays a Gibson Byrdland designed by Byrd and Hank Garland.
- In the That '70s Show (1998) episode, "Backstage Pass," Ted Nugent is playing a Gibson Byrdland designed by Byrd and Hank Garland.
- Is portrayed by Scott Michael Campbell in Crazy (2008)
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