Roadhouse 56 Traditional Country Music

11/24/2023

11/24/2023

IN REMEMBRANCE.....Nov. 15th 2018, Roy Linwood Clark dies of complications of pneumonia at his Tulsa, OK home. He was 85 years old.

He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre.

During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life—in Spite of Myself, in 1994.

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Hank Snow charted his first #1 on this day 73 years ago. Mr. Snow penned 'I'm Moving On' a year earlier and recorded it in the spring of 1950. His hit topped the chart for 21 weeks and has since become a country standard. Mr. Snow would go on to have 6 more and a career that spanned 50 years and landed him in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Pic from Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

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The Dillards - Dean Webb, Mitch Jayne, Rodney Dillard, Doug Dillard - Guthrie, Oklahoma, 10 October 1997

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David Akeman, better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), (June 17, 1916 – November 10, 1973)

He was a singer-songwriter, musician, comedian, actor and semi-professional baseball player, best known for his role as a main cast member on the hit television show, Hee Haw, and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Akeman was well-known for his "old-fashioned" banjo picking style, careful mix of comedy and music, and his memorable stage wardrobe (which consisted of a long nightshirt tucked into a pair of short blue jeans belted around his knees—an early form of sagging— giving him the comical appearance of a very tall man with stubby legs). The costume had many antecedents, including Slim Miller, a onetime stage comedian said to be Akeman's inspiration. Akeman kept his audience with his traditional playing and his mixture of comedy and song. He scored country-chart hits with "Chewing Gum" and "I Wonder Where Wanda Went". Between 1962 and 1971, he recorded seven albums. Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars in their rural Tennessee home in 1973. On Saturday night, November 10th, Akeman and his wife returned home after he performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Both were shot dead shortly after their arrival. The killers had waited for hours. Their corpses were discovered the following morning by their neighbor. A police investigation resulted in the convictions of cousins John A. Brown and Marvin Douglas Brown, both 23 years old. They had ransacked the cabin, and killed Stringbean when he arrived. David and his wife Estelle Akeman are buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. During the remaining production of Hee Haw, his trademark scarecrow was left as a memorial.

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Making New Memories with Jimmy Capps and friends

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HONOR THY LEGENDS: Country Conversation among Friends … with David Allan Coe (back to camera) Tom T Hall , and George Jones. Great Country Music Memories.

Photo Courtesy Of RKB Photo Archives.

11/24/2023

What a joy to celebrate Del McCoury (The Del McCoury Band) for his 20th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. We had friends and family and Music Lovers from everywhere in attendance. Read all about it and enjoy some pictures of the event as published by our friends at Bluegrass Today: https://bluegrasstoday.com/photos-from-grand-del-opry-2/