Sam Bush with Suns of Stars on the Pisgah Outdoor Stage Gates: 6:00 pm Show: 6:30 pm. SAM BUSH BAND There was only one ...

These songs were initially released in the 1940s and stood the test of time to become country classics decades later.

On March 15, 1974, the Grand Ole Opry country music radio show closed its run at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee ...

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

The venerable and longest serving principal of the school asked a nearby student who it was. The student replied, “Roy Acuff,” and Ms. Gresham asked that he be fetched directly. Acuff wasn’t unknown ...

Through daring business decisions and an eye for talent, the vaunted country radio program still stands as a tastemaker for ...

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 ...

It wasn’t long until Ms. Roman was back at Hee Haw and the first person to greet her was Roy Acuff. “He was extremely genuine; all he wanted to talk about was God and how He’d blessed him daily.

(ANNISTON) Memorial services for Roy Acuff Glass, 54, of Anniston, formerly of Roanoke, will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 2 p.m. at Rock Mills Community Holiness Church with Bro. Horace Harper ...

Her professional career kicked off after her family trio won a Nashville talent show where Roy Acuff was a judge. Acuff then offered Montgomery a job and she toured with his band from 1958 to 1962.

You’re sitting in the same pews as someone sat in to watch Harry Houdini do escape tricks on our stage as they have seen Roy Acuff do yo-yo tricks. Generations of people have sat on the same oak ...

(Photo: WKRN) (Photo: WKRN) It was also home to huge stars, like Roy Acuff. “He’s known as the father of country music. We worked with Minnie Pearl. We worked with a lot of people I worked ...