On July 24, 1948 -- 74 years ago today -- Roy Acuff declared his candidacy for governor of Tennessee. But it wasn't the first time the country legend had become embroiled in state politics.

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 ...

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.

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. Download the WBIR app ...

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 ...

It's hard to imagine the Grand Ole Opry without Roy Acuff. The Maynardville, Tennessee native (and his fiddle) has a statue at its former home, The Ryman, next to Minnie Pearl, and his death in ...

Appearing on "Huckabee," Grammy winner Jim VanCleve was the last to play the Roy Acuff fiddle before it was added to the temporary collection of the Mountain Music Museum in Kingsport, Tennessee.

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — A rare fiddle believed to have once been owned by the late country music star Roy Acuff will be exhibited at a Tennessee museum after it was nearly sold at a Goodwill ...

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, the singer and fiddler who was known to millions of Grand Ole Opry listeners as the ”King of Country Music,” died Monday at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. He was 89. He died of ...

Roy Acuff's instrument of choice was the fiddle. His music reached past the state lines and into the world. A rare fiddle, hand-made by Evart Acuff, is up for auction at a Goodwill in Kansas City.