Roy Acuff, the singer and ... President-elect Bill Clinton said he listened to Mr. Acuff and his band, the Smoky Mountain Boys, playing on Opry broadcasts every Friday and Saturday night of his youth.

Acuff and his band, the Crazy Tennesseans, auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry in 1938 and were offered a contract later that year. He would be a mainstay there the rest of his life, even though he ...

MAYNARDVILLE — If not for that blazing summer sun, Roy Acuff might have made it to baseball's big leagues — and country music might never have known one of its greatest stars. Acuff was born ...

Roy Acuff, 89, the singer and fiddler who was known to millions of Grand Ole Opry listeners as the ”King of Country Music”; he performed his best-known songs, ”Wabash Cannonball,” ”The ...

Jimmie Rodgers deserves credit for innovating the role of a touring, band-leading solo star. Yet it’s Roy Acuff who turned top billing into a glamorous lifestyle chased in the coming years by ...

My love for Roy Acuff comes from dad who bought over a dozen of his 78 RPM records. During my father’s final days at Parkridge Medical Center, I took some of our Roy Acuff compact discs to the ...

Grand Ole Opry legend Roy Acuff, who died 24 years ago today, performs his signature song "Wabash Cannonball" on the Grand Ole Opry stage.

Roy Acuff, the Grand Old Man of the Grand Ole Opry, died on Monday in Nashville, the scene of his greatest triumphs. He was 89. He had been hospitalized several times recently for heart problems.

Known as the "King of Country Music," Acuff debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in 1938 with his band The Smoky Mountain Boys. Acuff--and his fiddle--made weekly appearances at the Opry through the ...

Born in Texas, Rodney began playing music professionally in his father’s band at age 11. By the late 1980s, he’d penned hits for Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, and others and, in 1988 ...

Week 39: Roy Acuff, King Of Country. Skip to the content. ... Acuff-Rose appears in the credits of albums by Hank Williams, who employed Rose as his regular producer and close collaborator.

Lamar Peek and his Roy Acuff fiddle will appear on "Huckabee" on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) on Saturday, April 14, and Sunday, April 15 at 8/7c. For information about the show, visit ...