Roy Acuff

Here are several radio spots promoting the 1962 observance of National Country Music Week. I must admit I was a bit surprised to see that they found room for Connie Francis and the Kingston Trio, performers not generally associated with country music, alongside old stalwarts like Faron Young and Roy Acuff. Read More

Singer Amy Winehouse reveals that she and her husband of over one year, Blake-Fielder Civil, are divorcing. 2006 - Jazz singer Anita O'Day dies of a cardiac arrest in Los Angeles at the age of 87. 2004 - Sony Classical releases actor Robert Downey Jr's "The Futurist," which includes eight songs penned by the actor. 2001 - 51-year-old Juan Hinojosa, a founding member of the Tejano band Los Fabulosos Cuatro, dies along with his 28-year-old son in a traffic accident in Texas. 1994 - Tommy Boyce of songwriting duo Boyce & Hart commits suicide at his home in Nashville at the age of 50. 1992 - Singer and actress Miley Cyrus (Destiny Hope Cyrus) is born in Franklin, Tenn., to country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. 1992 - Country music singer Roy Acuff dies of heart failure at age 89. 1979 - Marianne Faithfull is arrested at and airport in Oslo, Norway, for possession of marijuana. 1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested outside of Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion after waving a pistol and demanding to see "The King." 1974 - No. 1 Billboard Album: "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll," the Rolling Stones. 1969 - Swing and country musician Spade Cooley dies of a heart attack in Oakland, Calif. Read More

Country music tributes to one's father seem to be in the air. Read More

Picture a Saturday night roadhouse deep in the Tennessee hills. Read More

The Chattanooga History Center will honor Fletcher Bright and the Dismembered Tennesseans as the recipients of its 4th Annual History Makers Award. Read More

When I think about my preference in music, I reflect to my childhood years and the changes which occurred through the 1950s and into the 1960s. Read More

"We had to stop and look at it for five minutes," says Gary Rossington, who played in various bands with Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant as a teenager in Jacksonville, Fla., prior to the band's formal transformation (with several additional members) into Lynyrd Skynyrd in the early 1970s. Read More

Singer-songwriter Tom Russell, who's headlining a Bedrock 66 Live! concert Thursday, has heard his songs performed by artists as diverse as Johnny Cash and k.d. lang. Read More

Roy Acuff, the grand old man of the Grand Ole Opry, once scolded a stone-drunk Hank Williams for allowing a two-bit brain to cripple his million-dollar talent. Read More

Even though his career stretches back for over half a century, Carl Smith is probably not one of the most remembered singing stars from country music's honky-tonk era — but his ordinary-sounding name might be part of the problem. Read More