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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Country Music Hall of Fame ® and Museum announced that Country Music Hall of Fame member Roy Acuff's cherished fiddle has been added to the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Note: On Monday, November 23, 1992, Roy Acuff died at St. Thomas Midtown Hospital. The news devastated the country music world. A day later, November 24, the Tennessean ran a collection of ...

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 ...