Biography
Roy Claxton Acuff (
15 September
1903 –
23 November
1992) was an
American
country musician. He was born in
Maynardville,
Tennessee, third of five children. He played semi-professional
baseball, but a
sunstroke in
1929 and a nervous breakdown in
1930 ended his aspirations to play for the
New York Yankees. He then turned his attention to his father's fiddle and began playing...
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