In 1992, country legend Roy Acuff died in Nashville at age 89. He had joined the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s and appeared regularly up until several months before he died. In 1995, director Louis ...

Texas' youthful Attorney General Gerald Mann announced last week: "If I remain in public life, it will be as Governor of Texas." Enthusiastic, rumple-haired Jerry Mann first ...

(Photo: WKRN) (Photo: WKRN) It was also home to huge stars, like Roy Acuff. “He’s known as the father of country music. We ...

When The War and Treaty ventured into Italy for the duo's second USO tour, a stop in Naples on Oct. 25 led to an unexpected ...

And that was my big moment." His parents were in the audience. They'd driven down from Paducah to see their son perform. "Roy Acuff introduced me and my mind is blown" Chapman tells The Tennessean ...

During the Depression, the Jones family listened to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio. Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb were early favorites. But for George, Hank Williams would eclipse them both.

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

On November 1, Steven Curtis Chapman will see a dream come true as the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter becomes the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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