Roy Acuff’s captivating vocal delivery and electrifying stage presence made him the heart and soul of one of country music’s longest running and most revered institutions, the Grand Ole Opry.

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon–better known as Minnie Pearl–has been voted the 1987 Roy Acuff Community Service Award by trustees of the Country Music Foundation. Mrs. Cannon thus becomes the ...

The first great music business in Nashville, a song-publishing firm founded in 1942 by Roy Acuff and pop songwriter Fred Rose now estimated to be worth $20 million, is being bought by the Opryland ...

Roy Acuff was considered 'The King of Country Music.' After his death in 1992, country music stars mourned the Grand Ole Opry mainstay.

A rare Roy Acuff fiddle is making its way to East Tennessee, to be on display at the Mountain Music Museum in Kingsport. To stream WBIR on your phone, you need the WBIR app.

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 ...

The New York Times reports Acuff actually first appeared on a Tennessee gubernatorial ballot in 1943, when he was entered on both the Democratic and Republican ballots as a protest candidate after ...

Roy Acuff was in a broadcast booth in Wichita, Kan., in July 1990 when wind and rain chased the teams off the field. The Missions' play-by-play radio announcer began filling time at the microphone ...

On the 1962 Capitol LP The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark, the guitar picker trained his dizzy digits on such familiar tunes as “Golden Slippers” and “In the Mood.” Owing to the “Twist ...

On Dec. 8, 1991, Roy Acuff became the first country artist to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kennedy Center Honors. Skip to main content Skip to site footer The Latest ...

Roy Acuff (1903–1992) was a musical giant and, in the title of a 1962 album, dubbed “The King of Country Music”. ... An LP-sized box houses nine CDs, a DVD (the hokey Acuff & The Smoky Mountain ...

In 1942, Roy Acuff set up Acuff-Rose Music in partnership with Nashville-based songwriter and talent scout Fred Rose. The new publishing company was dedicated to treating songwriters decently. They ...