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.

It’s hard to imagine that French finger style guitarist Jerome Malaval didn’t take to the guitar when he was first introduced through lessons. But as he says now, he just didn’t like the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.