Acuff

Known as the “King of Country Music,” Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and “hoedown” format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.

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Hank Williams said “No, No, Joe” to Stalin, and in “Advice to Joe,” Roy Acuff warned the Soviet dictator of the day to come “when Moscow lies in ashes.”

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In 1942, Acuff co-founded the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company — Acuff-Rose Music — which signed acts such as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers.

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In response to the Bank of America statement, Ryan Acuff an organizer with Take Back the Land- Rochester, the community group supporting Ms. Lennon released the following statement:

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You're enjoying it, but a fellow customer saunters over: "That's nothing more than Roy Acuff's 'Ida Red' with different words," he says, pointing out that Acuff cut his track in 1939.

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In 1962, Acuff became the first living person to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Acuff began his music career in the 1930s, and gained regional fame as the singer and fiddler for his group, the Smoky Mountain Boys.

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After graduation, Acuff turned down a scholarship to nearby Carson-Newman College and worked temporarily at a variety of jobs, including that of railroad “call boy,” the one responsible for rounding up other workers as the need arose.

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Early in 1929, major-league baseball scouts recruited Acuff for training camp, but his collapse during a game — an after-effect of an earlier sunstroke — prompted a nervous breakdown and sidelined him for most of 1930.

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