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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acuff, whose unique voice made him stand out among his peers, will be honored by his alma mater at 6 p.m. May 20. The Bobcat Ambassadors, a group of about 35 of Central’s best and brightest, are ...

Acuff chose not to run at that time, but according to Time magazine, he "was so popular in Tennessee that the Republican Party begged him to run for the governorship in 1948." ...