From this month onwards, Chet's signature will once again be emblazoned across the pickguards and headstocks of the newly renamed Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins Hollow Body, the 6122 Chet Atkins Country ...

Chet Atkins' influence on country music was multi-faceted, as a musician, producer and executive. But his inventive, inimitable fingerpicking style made his guitar playing particularly important ...

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.

In Chet Atkins: A Life In Music, he remembered, “We would just gang around the piano, and work up arrangements, and put it down on tape, and ship it out. That’s the way to do it, all the ...

It's a true honor to be able to create a special piece of work for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to celebrate Chet Atkins.” - Nick Mullikin, Nashville Ballet Artistic Director and ...

Chet Atkins, a seminal figure in country music as an innovative guitarist and producer who was instrumental in shaping "the Nashville sound," died Saturday in that city.

When country music really exploded in America in the early parts of the 20th century, two acts emerged as its first real stars: The Carter Family and Chet Atkins.

READ IT ALL! Explore our Country Mile series By age 18, Atkins was back in East Tennessee as a musician on WNOX radio's Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, picking on a borrowed guitar. He made enough money ...

Chet absolutely had that,” Knowles remembered admiringly. Dr. Cusic traces Atkins's journey from a self-taught teenager in rural Tennessee to one of the most celebrated musicians in American ...

Atkins' finger-picking style proved influential to a generation of axemen, including George Harrison, who wrote the liner notes for Atkins' 1966 record "Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles." ...