Matter of fact, it was Chet Atkins who inspired Paul McCartney to write “Michelle”. Regarding how Chet Atkins inspired him, McCartney stated, “‘Michelle’ was a tune that I’d written in ...

Chet Atkins is no longer the household name he was in the 1960s, when he was all over TV and radio with his guitar. But every year, the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society packs a Nashville hotel ...

Chet Atkins: June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 Keith Urban said contemporary country music owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Atkins – a debt that dates back to the 1950s.

Chet Atkins’ first professional job was as a fiddler on WNOX in Knoxville, where his boss was singer Bill Carlisle. “He was horrible,” Carlisle said at a tribute concert to Atkins in 1997.

Chet Atkins, a country guitarist who helped steer the careers of some prominent Nashville acts as well as the sound of several rock bands, died Saturday. He was 77.

Gibson’s Les Paul was the company’s response to the solid-body electric instrument introduced in 1950 by California guitar maker Leo Fender, whose Broadcaster model, which later became known ...