Elvis Presley used country elements during his rock music career, but his roots were always in traditional country music.

Sarnia’s Mike Stevens has been named to the Order of Canada. The celebrated harmonica player and composer who founded the ...

Bruce Springsteen delivered a crowd-pleasing double LP with 'The River'. See if you know these five trivial tidbits about its making.

Fletcher was a professor at what was then known as Mary Baldwin College. Margaret was a writer. In 1954, the two started Oak ...

Nashville, Music City USA, didn't know what to make of "Nashville," the Robert Altman-directed, critically acclaimed and inwardly mocked film of 1975.

Following her death, Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff revealed that he was due to perform at the benefit, but his wife, Mildred, had “a funny feeling” and let him oversleep, missing all planes ...

Gailard Sartain, the character actor and comedian whose breakthrough role on Hee Haw launched a career of playing Southern ...

Billy Meyer was stuck in a hospital bed in Ohio 100 years ago this week. Knoxville’s hometown baseball hero was down with ...

Today in Music History for July 11: In 1889, "Leo the Royal Cadet," described as a military opera, premiered at Martin's Opera House in Kingston, Ont. The performance took place under the patronage of ...

The Grand Ole Opry has been a country music institution for 100 years, playing host to some of the biggest icons in the ...

Roy Acuff accused the congressman of having worked against the Reece-Acuff ticket in the 1948 election, while Howard Baker hammered home his theme of Jennings’ absenteeism. Fred Travis once wrote that ...

Roy Mullins, a lifelong educator, community leader, ... Stacy Larmer, Edward Bales, Richard Kemppainen, Gary Acuff, and Dave Cantrell. Flowers are a welcome gesture of love and respect.