The seventies were bountiful years for guitar fans. Looking now at Guitar Player magazines of the period, it's almost dizzying to see how many veteran guitarists were doing some of their most ...

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, 77, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easygoing country style to compete with it; he recorded more than 75 albums of guitar ...

Two years later, in 1996, when Weaver was a freshman in high school, he met singer Morning Nichols and her husband (renowned Chet Atkins fingerstyle guitarist) Jim Nichols at a guitar workshop in ...

Chet Atkins' contributions to music as a producer were so immense that they rivaled his brilliance as an instrumentalist. Atkins supervised hit albums for a host of stars, ranging from ...

Tommy Emmanuel is one of five people that Atkins named Certified Guitar Player (C.G.P.). He also played several songs including “Mr. Guitar” with the late Nashville legend on the 1997 album ...

He started playing guitar at age five after his curiosity was piqued from hearing his father “picking” a Chet Atkins/Merle Travis tune.

One of those figures, as Knopfler recalls in the new issue of Guitar World, was fellow fingerstyle hero Chet Akins. However, when the pair linked up to trade licks, it didn’t quite go as ...

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 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 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 ...