On what would have been his 100th birthday, Country Music Hall of Famer Chet Atkins is being honored by a choreographed piece by the Nashville Ballet.

Chet Atkins' influence on country music was multi-faceted, as a musician, producer and executive. But his inventive, inimitable fingerpicking style made his guitar playing particularly important ...

Few people have left a larger mark on the face of American music in general and country music in particular than Chet Atkins. As the most-recorded instrumentalist in history, countless people have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 absolutely had that,” Knowles remembered admiringly. Dr. Cusic traces Atkins's journey from a self-taught teenager in rural Tennessee to one of the most celebrated musicians in American ...

In Chet Atkins: A Life In Music, he remembered, “We would just gang around the piano, and work up arrangements, and put it down on tape, and ship it out. That’s the way to do it, all the ...

Chet Atkins, known as Mr. Guitar, died on Saturday morning (June 30th) at his home in Nashville at age seventy-seven, after battling cancer for several years. Like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash ...

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When country music really exploded in America in the early parts of the 20th century, two acts emerged as its first real stars: The Carter Family and Chet Atkins.