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 ...
Seminal honky-tonk singer Webb Pierce had 34 consecutive Top 10 country hits, 10 of them reaching No. 1, from 1952 to 1957. Pierce had more hits than contemporaries Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb and ...
During the week of Feb. 20, 1954, Pierce started his 17-week reign atop the 'Billboard' Best Sellers in Stores country chart with "Slowly." Typecasting country artists as flipping between sounding sad ...
Before there was Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and George Jones, there was Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Marty Robbins, and the legendary Hank Snow. Without those four predecessors, the ...