Growing up, Richard Kiser had two goals -- he wanted to play guitar like Chet Atkins, and he wanted to make a living as a gospel music performer. Nearly a half-century after picking his first ...

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 ...

Chet Atkins, the master of the guitar, plays before a pack house Oct. 5, 1972, during the Masters Festival of Music along with Floyd Cramer and Boots Randolph at the Opry House.

Influential guitarist Chet Atkins, who helped modernize country music in the 1960s, paving the way for the massive commercial force that it is today, died Saturday in Nashville. He was 77.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...