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Roy Acuff Sun Jan 26 2003 at 21:47:26 C O U N T R Y   M U S I C   H A L L   O F   F A M E R     index | ⇐ last | next ⇒ In 1903, Roy Acuff (“The King of Country Music”) was born in Maynardsville, Tennessee. As a boy, he played in the church choir and played baseball, hoping to someday become a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees. Those dreams were dashed when he was left physically debilitated by a severe case of sunburn while on vacation, during the year he spent recovering he learned to play the fiddle. After a brief stint in 1962, with a trave...

In a few months, pandemic permitting, Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies’s recently completed feature-length documentary Walter Kaufmann: Welch ein Leben! (Walter Kaufmann: What a Life!) will hit cinemas in Germany. But its subject, a German with an Australian passport, won’t be there for the film’s opening night. He died in Berlin on 15 April. Kaufmann had turned ninety-seven in January. Virtually anybody who reaches such a ripe old age has led a life worth making into a film — or writing about, for that matter. Kaufmann’s story, that of a refugee from Nazi Germany who became an Austral...

100 Years of Country Music History By Abby Monteil, Stacker News On 4/10/21 at 9:00 AM EDT Over the past century, the country music genre has become one of the most popular and recognizable within the American music industry. It first originated in the early 1900s, particularly among working-class Southern Americans. Elements of fiddle songs, ballads, banjo, jazz, and blues became entangled together, leading to its official recognition as a genre (often referred to as "hillbilly music") by the 1920s. From there, country music grew roots in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, where the Grand ...

He had received a tip-off from a man who worked in a Glasgow abattoir with Rena Costello. West was a frequent visitor and became fascinated with the dismemberment of carcasses, according to Rena's former colleague. Could West, who dismembered many of his victims, have learnt butchery skills at the same city slaughterhouse? Pender became convinced West began his murder spree in Scotland and deliberately killed young Henry in November 1965. He feared West may also have murdered other women, suggesting their remains may have been buried on his allotment. Pender said at the time: "Whe...

Fifty-four years ago today (April 1, 1967) was a big day for country music and the genre's fans: It was on that date that the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Nashville, Tenn. The Country Music Association (CMA) originally established the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961 and spent six years planning and building the museum before it officially opened on Music Row. The Hall of Fame quickly became a destination for not only tourists but also Music City locals, who came to view artifacts from their favorite country music artists, past and present, including photographs, instrume...