Atkins made his first solo recordings in the mid-1940s, but it would take him until 1955 to land his first hit, "Mr. Sandman." He was 31 by then, and more than a decade into his professional career.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – 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.

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 ...

Weaver played Chet’s solo guitar arrangement of “Ain’t Misbehavin” — the one that Jim Nichols helped him learn many years back. Weaver played it on pedal steel guitar.

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 ...

'We Still Can't Say Good Bye: A Musicians' Tribute to Chet Atkins' will feature a long list of stellar guitarists and artists.

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: 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 ...