ira hayes. fulsome prison.tter how much you have sinned, no matter how much you have stumbled and fallen, do not give up. as someone said, keep the faith. how influential was that music? beyond gospel -- what are the ingredients that helped him to create his own song styles? >> he grew up listening to country music but mainly gospel. when he knocked on the door of sam phillips after elvis had that, he did not want to be the next elvis presley. he did not want to be a rockstar. he wanted to be a gospel singer, and sam said, i am sorry. we cannot sell gospel music, and so he went to secular music, and then he went back to do gospel music. ,ecular music on the one hand gospel music on the other, sometimes combining them. line" to"i wlak the his wife, saying he would be faithful, but he was also talking about another way, a religious way, and he said that was his first gospel hit and that sam never knew that. a sense ofng to get what happened in his childhood that caused him to wrestle with these demons and these d