But I’d have to give the sonic edge to the stereo version of “Chet Atkins’ Workshop,” his best-selling album released a few years later in 1961, utilizing his home studio with its cutting ...

Although influenced by a wide variety of musical styles and musicians from the country of Chet Atkins to the rock and roll of Duane Eddy and the Beatles, Doyle has developed a distinct, recognizable ...

“ That,” he said, “is the Nashville Sound.” Jim Reeves records in RCA Studio B as producer Chet Atkins watches from the control room, c. 1962. Credit: Colin Escott, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ...

April 10 (UPI) -- CMT will explore the making of the Chet Atkins tribute album ' We Still Can't Say Goodbye' - A Musicians' Tribute to Chet Atkin s in a new documentary. The one-hour special 'We ...

“I remember, Chet Atkins gave me a [call],” he remembers. “Because we were both pickers in that sense – but, of course, Chet was otherworldly.

Yes, Chet Atkins — a 1973 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee whose career touched and shaped artists and institutions fundamental to country music history including the Carter family and Grand ...

Elegant guitarist Chet Atkins is one of the most regularly honored of roots-music makers, as a contributor to country and rock, as a broad musical influencer, and as a producer, label executive ...

After 23 years at one location in downtown, the statue of the legendary Chet Atkins in downtown Nashville will be moving to a museum but will remain with public access.

READ IT ALL! Explore our Country Mile series By age 18, Atkins was back in East Tennessee as a musician on WNOX radio's Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, picking on a borrowed guitar. He made enough money ...

"Chet belongs at [the Musicians Hall of Fame] with musicians who loved and cherished him." A who's who of unmistakable Nashville music makers was mentioned as what Atkins referred to as "C.G.P ...

Object Details user Atkins, Chet maker Haile, Hascal B. Description Hascal Haile of Tompkinsville, Kentucky made this guitar in 1972. Hascal "Hack" Haile (1906-1986) began making guitars ...