CLIC COUNTRY.."WHO AM I"?..can you tell me who this LEGENDARY STAR IS by these CLUES?

I was the MOST MULTI-TALENTED man to ever enter the MUSIC BUSINESS! Born in KENTUCKY, A singer-song writer of MAJOR PROPORTIONS-Guitar stylist,,did a little bit of ACTING,AUTHOR-even CARTOONIST..learned my CELEBRATED GUITAR STYLE from a BLACK RAILROAD HAND..who had also MASTERED the FIDDLE..the GREAT CHET ATKINS even admired and COPIED my STYLE ..I signed with CAPITOL RECORDS..had SEVERAL of the BIGGEST HITS of that ERA..1946, I either WROTE or CO-WROTE ALL OF MY HITS..in the 1950's i appeared regularly on HOMETOWN JAMBOREE & TOWN HALL PARTY.