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.

[RELATED: A Primer for the Country-Curious: 5 Fascinating Chet Atkins Facts] Before his passing in 2001, Atkins bestowed the title of Certified Guitar Player on five people. Emmanuel was one of them.

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.

Chet Atkins was, first and foremost, a guitar player. He became a producer and a record executive, but he started as a musician and continued learning his craft until he passed away in 2001. Often ...

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 ...

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 ...

A native of England, Smith picked up a guitar at age 5 after seeing his father playing an Chet Atkins tune.

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Gibson Montana, the Bozeman, Mont.-based acoustic guitar division of Gibson Musical Instruments, has introduced the Chet Atkins Studio, a nylon-string classical guitar.

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.