As a young man, he had no idea what to do with it, though. His mimicry of country music stars like Roy Acuff, Lefty Frizzell ...

Austin Peay State University’s Department of Theatre & Dance, with support from the Center of Excellence for the Creative ...

The Carter Family recorded it during the Bristol Sessions of 1929, and country pioneer Roy Acuff also covered it in 1936.

For nearly six decades, the three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (NGDB) has entertained audiences with ...

This essay will look closely at the lives and achievements of five icons: Jimmy Rodgers, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Roy ...

dress. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images) 4) Cast members over the course of the years on Hee Haw included Roy Acuff, Cathy Baker, Willie Ackerman, Billy Jim Baker, Barbi Benton, Kelly ...

His parents met at a Roy Acuff concert and Crowell was only two years old when his father insisted on taking him to see Hank Williams perform. By age eleven, he was playing in his father’s honky ...

Exactly where Hank Williams wailed “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Precisely where Roy Acuff rode “Wabash Cannon Ball.” “It was terrifying,” Shelton said. “One of the most sacred st ...

Roy Acuff, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Miriam Makeba, and Joan Baez all recorded versions of it. Bob Dylan sang the song on his debut album, though his fellow Greenwich Village folkie ...

Watch country grow in popularity during the Great Depression and World War II as America falls in love with singing cowboys, Texas Swing, and the Grand Ole Opry’s Roy Acuff. Travel to Memphis ...

Once the go-to locale for live entertainment, including the musical stylings of Roy Acuff, June Carter Cash, Chet Atkins, Archie Campbell, and hometown hero Dolly Parton—she had her first-ever ...

Because country rocker Steve Earle is a Texas contemporary of artists like Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, he's also the type of storyteller able to set an entire mood with the inflection of his ...