Roy Acuff

by Schlappi, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780882899329
• ISBN10: 0882899325
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Inc

Summary

Fiddler Roy Acuff was the first living performer to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. A member of the Grand Ole Opry and premier figure in the growth of country music, his story is told through interviews with friends, family, and fellow performers.

Table of Contents

I. THE EARLY YEARS
Consider the Source	3	(1)
Maynardville	4	(6)
``Rabbit''	10	(3)
Goofing Off	13	(4)
``Roy, You're Not Gonna Play Baseball''	17	(3)
Mocoton Tonic is the Best Medicine	20	(2)
An Extra Fifty Cents	22	(3)
To the Recording Studio on the Wings of That Great Speckled Bird	25	(5)
She Didn't Get a Stick Horse After All	30	(2)
The Long Road to Nashville	32	(4)
Opry Regulars But Still ``Fiddling and Starving''	36	(3)
A Little Success-But Resignation	39	(1)
Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys	40	(4)
II. THE BIG TIME
Coast to Coast	44	(2)
``At the Grand Ole Opry Tonight''	46	(4)
No Man Is an Island	50	(4)
Some Partnerships	54	(17)
III. THE SMOKY MOUNTAIN GANG
Great Big Bashful Brother Oswald and His Sister Rachel	71	(11)
Jess, Lonnie, Joe, and Curly	82	(3)
Boogie-Woogie Man-Jimmie Riddle	85	(6)
Fiddlers Charm Creation	91	(5)
Smoky Mountain Girls	96	(2)
A Few More Smoky Mountain Boys	98	(2)
Ode on a Classical Jug	100	(2)
``Roy's Boys'' and Roy	102	(4)
IV. THE ACUFF SOUND
What Comes Naturally	106	(8)
A Recording Session	114	(5)
The Precious Jeweled Cannonball Has Never Wrecked	119	(7)
V. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
On the Road	126	(15)
He Did Hear Somebody Pray	141	(8)
VI. ACUFF-ROSE AND MORE FUN
Two Blind Pigs Searching for an Acron	149	(15)
Fun Instead of Profit	164	(9)
VII. OFF TO HOLLYWOOD
``In the Movies There's Nothing to Hold You Up''	173	(9)
VIII. POLITICKING
To Run or Not to Run	182	(6)
``I Hope Gordon Browning Will Be the Next Governor of Tennessee''	188	(17)
He's a Southern Yankee Doodle Boy	205	(10)
IX. COUNTRY MUSIC KINGDOM
King of the Hillbillies	215	(3)
Acuff the Man	218	(6)
``She's Done a Lot More for Me Than I Can Ever Do for Her''	224	(6)
He Is Following His Own Drum	230	(5)
Sincerity, Showmanship, Success	235	(4)
X. THE GRAND OLD MAN OF COUNTRY MUSIC
Preface	239	(1)
Acknowledgments	239	(1)
Chronicle of the King	240	(31)
Appendix A Roy's Overseas Tours	271	(12)
Appendix B Discography	283	(15)
Bibliography	298	(12)
Index	310