Early in Dolly Parton’s career, Porter Wagoner told her he took a major risk for her. He pushed to get RCA to sign her, despite the fact that Chet Atkins, the head of the Nashville studio, did not ...

We Still Can’t Say Good Bye: A Musicians’ Tribute to Chet Atkins will hit shelves and streaming services on April 19. Today, fans get their first taste of the tribute record. Listen to “Mr. Guitar” by ...

April 10 (UPI) --CMT will explore the making of the Chet Atkins tribute album 'We Still Can't Say Goodbye' - A Musicians' Tribute to Chet Atkins in a new documentary. The one-hour special 'We Still ...

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 ...

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 wasn't a fancy guitar player. He didn't command attention by gyrating his body or playing his guitar behind his head. He commanded attention by simply being one of the best, if not the ...

Kerr worked alongside "Nashville Sound" crafters Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley as a key arranger, composer, and vocalist Her Grammy-winning work in the late 1960s bested the likes of The Beatles, Beach ...

Don't worry, Vince Gill is not anywhere near his death bed, but he put himself there mentally for a moment in a recent interview. Gill revealed the one artist he would want to sing with in Heaven ...

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 ...