Roy Acuff has been played on NTS in shows including The Head Zone w/ Ripley Johnson, featured first on 7 April 2016. Songs played include Black Mountain Rag, Low And Lonely and Wabash Cannonball.

Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country musician known around the world as the "King of Country Music".

Roy Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee, to Ida Carr and Simon E. Neil Acuff (a Baptist preacher, judge and tenant farmer), the third of their five children. Originally, Acuff didn't plan to be a singer. Acuff sang in the church choir as a schoolboy, but…