Elegant guitarist Chet Atkins is one of the most regularly honored of roots-music makers, as a contributor to country and rock, as a broad musical influencer, and as a producer, label executive and ...

June 30 -- Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easy listening country style to compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77. Funeral ...

Finally tonight, remembering Chet Atkins, who died this weekend. As a guitarist and record producer, Atkins helped change and popularize country music, creating what became known as the Nashville ...