These songs were initially released in the 1940s and stood the test of time to become country classics decades later.

On March 15, 1974, the Grand Ole Opry country music radio show closed its run at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee ...

LGBTQ+ musicians have always played a part in country music, but even today they are being kept just outside the spotlight.

The venerable and longest serving principal of the school asked a nearby student who it was. The student replied, “Roy Acuff,” and Ms. Gresham asked that he be fetched directly. Acuff wasn’t unknown ...

Through daring business decisions and an eye for talent, the vaunted country radio program still stands as a tastemaker for ...

The group had asked permission from Nashville publishing company Acuff-Rose to use Roy Orbison's Oh, Pretty Woman in a new song. Citing concerns that a rap parody would harm the reputations of the ...

Before he was one of the pioneers in country and bluegrass music, Roy Acuff’s mission was to be a big-league ballplayer. A bout with sunstroke and the subsequent inability to be in sunlight for ...

It wasn’t long until Ms. Roman was back at Hee Haw and the first person to greet her was Roy Acuff. “He was extremely genuine; all he wanted to talk about was God and how He’d blessed him daily.

(ANNISTON) Memorial services for Roy Acuff Glass, 54, of Anniston, formerly of Roanoke, will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 2 p.m. at Rock Mills Community Holiness Church with Bro. Horace Harper ...

He toured around the south with different Opry acts like Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff and Uncle Dave Macon, and had to find his own places to sleep because he wasn’t allowed in hotels. He was fired by the ...

Friday, January 13, 2012 – Charlie Collins, one of the few surviving members of Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain Boys, passed away after suffering a massive stroke, at the age of 78. Collins, born in 1933 ...

Her professional career kicked off after her family trio won a Nashville talent show where Roy Acuff was a judge. Acuff then offered Montgomery a job and she toured with his band from 1958 to 1962.