Chet Atkins, a country guitarist who helped steer the careers of some prominent Nashville acts as well as the sound of several rock bands, died Saturday. He was 77. Atkins began as a fiddler in his ...
Guitar legend Chet Atkins is renowned for his distinctive fingerstyle playing, which combined a walking bass line with melody and rhythm. As a producer, he was an architect of the Nashville Sound, a ...
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. Atkins ...