Gailard Sartain, the character actor and comedian whose breakthrough role on Hee Haw launched a career of playing Southern ...

More than that, it set the standard for heartbroken country songs. 3. “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” by Roy Acuff (1947) Many country fans think of “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” as a ...

The next night, Roy Acuff opened the first show at the new venue. A video of Acuff singing in the 1940s played before the screen lifted to reveal Acuff himself, singing live in the same spot.

The next night, Roy Acuff opened the first show at the new venue. A video of Acuff singing in the 1940s played before the screen lifted to reveal Acuff himself, singing live in the same spot.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The next night, Roy Acuff opened the first show at the new venue. A video of Acuff ...

Through daring business decisions and an eye for talent, the vaunted country radio program still stands as a tastemaker for the fastest-growing genre in popular music ...

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.

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 ...

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.