Before he was one of the pioneers in country and bluegrass music, Roy Acuff’s mission was to be a big-league ballplayer. A bout with sunstroke and the subsequent inability to be in sunlight for ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tuesday, Aug. 20, marked the grand opening of the new WSM studio in the Roy Acuff Theatre. WSM, which had previously broadcasted from the Opry Resort, now has a permanent ...

Country music star Roy Acuff paused his busy schedule on Sept. 13, 1958, to meet local Republican candidates at the SEMO District Fair, captured in a rare photo from the Southeast Missourian archive.

LGBTQ+ musicians have always played a part in country music, but even today they are being kept just outside the spotlight.

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 ...