During the week of Feb. 20, 1954, Webb Pierce started his 17-week reign atop Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores country chart with "Slowly." Co-written by Pierce and Tommy Hill, the song derives ...

Regarded by many as one of country's most potent moaners ever, Webb Pierce receives reverent tribute on this multi-artist Audium release produced by Pierce disciple Gail Davies. By Billboard Staff ...

Big record sales don’t guarantee a glowing legacy. Just look at the career of Webb Pierce. He was once dueling Hank Williams and Elvis Presley at the top of the country charts, yet he’s largely ...

A country music legend who was born in West Monroe and starred on the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport will be honored in his hometown three decades after his death. Webb Pierce will be honored with a ...

Webb Pierce, 69, a country music singer who was ranked by one poll as one of the 10 biggest stars in country music history, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at a Nashville hospital. The Louisiana-born ...

Sam Hunt previously shared that creating his new album was putting him back in touch with his roots, both musically and personally, and that fact is on full display in his brand-new song "Hard to ...

Add it to the list of left turns from the enigmatic country artist — Sam Hunt‘s new track “Hard to Forget” opens with a lengthy sample of 1950s honky-tonk star Webb Pierce‘s classic “There Stands the ...

Mel Tillis, who died Sunday at 85, was known to the casual country fan for being a guy who cracked good-natured jokes about his stutter on Hee Haw, but he was also responsible for writing some of the ...

When Florida native and Nashville legend Mel Tillis was in Tallahassee during March 2009 to be inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, I pushed my way to the front of the crowd at the ...

The Nashville boundary-pusher and five all-star collaborators built “Hard to Forget” around a sample of Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass.” See how they made it sound modern in the latest Diary of ...