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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Webb Pierce Hits No. 1 With 'Slowly' — Country Music Memories. During the week of Feb. 20, 1954, Pierce started his 17-week reign atop the 'Billboard' Best Sellers in Stores country chart with " ...

Michael Webb Pierce was an American honky tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist ...

At 16, Pierce landed his own local radio show, "Songs By Webb Pierce." January: Winnsboro's Fred Carter Jr. to be first act honored on new Northeast Louisiana Music Trail.

"I kept cutting Webb Pierce songs after that, but they would never make my albums," she said. "I'd always be told, `No, that's too country.' So I always had it in the back of my mind that, ...

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 ...