Jimmie Rodgers deserves credit for innovating the role of a touring, band-leading solo star. Yet it’s Roy Acuff who turned top billing into a glamorous lifestyle chased in the coming years by Ernest ...

Those of us in broadcasting have the opportunity to meet many famous people; it’s part of the business. At the top of my list of celebrities would have to be Roy Claxton Acuff, named by the late ...

It survived the bombs of World War II, flew across the Atlantic Ocean and sang in the hands of a country music legend for decades. Now, Roy Acuff’s prized fiddle has found a permanent home at the ...

It's hard to imagine the Grand Ole Opry without Roy Acuff. The Maynardville, Tennessee native (and his fiddle) has a statue at its former home, The Ryman, next to Minnie Pearl, and his death in 1992 ...

MAYNARDVILLE — If not for that blazing summer sun, Roy Acuff might have made it to baseball's big leagues — and country music might never have known one of its greatest stars. Acuff was born Sept. 15, ...

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 ...

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