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Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. 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 singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
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The album notes indicate that the song "was adapted from an old disk by Roy Acuff". [17] However, unlike Acuff's or Foley's renditions, Dylan performs it as a solo piece, with his vocal accompanied by guitar and harmonica. [3] He also plays the song at a unusually fast tempo for a folk song, [18] which several biographers have commented on:
A Tribute to Roy Acuff was released in February 1962 on RCA Victor Records. The project was Locklin's fourth studio album in his career. [3] The album was distributed as a vinyl LP, featuring six songs on either side of the record. [4]
The Carter Family made one of the first recordings of the song in 1929, though it was not released until 1932. Another popular version was recorded by Roy Acuff in 1936. [1] The Acuff version is one of the fewer than 40 all-time singles to have sold 10 million physical copies worldwide.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band included the song on their 1972 album Will the Circle be Unbroken; Roy Acuff took the lead vocal. Ricky Skaggs and The Whites recorded the song on their 2007 album Salt of the Earth, [8] and Merle Haggard and Chester Smith released a duet of the song on their country-gospel album California Blend. [9]
Roy Acuff covered the song in a recording session on November 11, 1947. The single was released by Columbia Records (#38109) in February 1948, with "Thank God" on the flipside. [ 21 ] During Williams' funeral in 1953, Acuff led the singing of the song, while he was joined on the chorus by artists including Red Foley , Webb Pierce , Carl Smith ...
"Pan American" was Williams' attempt to rewrite Roy Acuff's immensely popular version of the Carter Family's "Wabash Cannonball." Along with the church, Acuff was arguably Williams' biggest musical influence; in 1952 he insisted to Ralph Gleason, "He's the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds.