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, whose easy listening country guitar records (all on RCA) were too often tasteful to a fault, came out of his shell a little more than usual in that decade, cutting great duet records each ...

Hear "Mr. Guitar" performed by Tommy Emmanuel and Michael Cleveland from the upcoming Chet Atkins tribute album.

Chet Atkins: The gentleman guitar player July 2, 2001 Posted: 5:26 PM EDT (2126 GMT) (CNN) -- There is a guitar, manufactured now by Gibson, called the Country Gentleman. It is a stately ...

Nasvhille guitar god Chet Atkins--whose pioneering fingerpicking style accompanied the likes of Elvis Presley and Hank Williams, influenced the Beatles and helped transform the entire genre of country ...

Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easygoing country style to compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77.

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.