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 ...
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit curator Mick Buck stands in the museum's instrument gallery as he notes the features on a classic 1955 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins hollow-body electric ...
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 ...