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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One morning last fall, Luke Laird was eating breakfast and listening to one of his favorite Apple Music playlists, Honky-Tonk Essentials. When Webb Pierce’s 1953 hit “There Stands the Glass” started ...

Alfred Wayne “Webb” Pierce, 70, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born in Gaffney, he was the son of the late Alfred Andrew Pierce and Louise ...

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 ...

Artists don't sing a song in one style and hope to make a career of it. They create interest with new music that keeps unveiling new facets, essentially blending their core genre with sounds they… By ...

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 ...