webb pierce

During the week of Feb. 20, 1954, Pierce started his 17-week reign atop the 'Billboard' Best Sellers in Stores country chart with "Slowly."

The Hollywood Walk of Fame features everyone from actors to radio personalities, and there are plenty of Nashville names enshrined there.

Typecasting country artists as flipping between sounding sad and nostalgic paints a limited picture that leaves out the ever-presence of humor within the genre.

On March 29, 1960, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge opened in Nashville, Tenn.