Neither singing nor songwriting are particularly ... by picking the Carter Family’s “Wildwood Flower.” Salutes to Chet Atkins ...

Country star Chet Atkins, who worked at RCA ... Wagoner brought Atkins a recording of Parton singing and the latter was not impressed. “This girl just can’t sing,” Atkins reportedly told ...

In Nashville, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, studio producers on Music Row like Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins began experimenting ... Cline (who had started out singing Hank Williams songs).