Atkins recorded more than 75 albums of guitar instrumentals andsold more than 75 million albums. He played on hundreds of hitrecords, including those of Elvis Presley (Heartbreak Hotel),Hank ...

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 ...

Atkins made his first solo recordings in the mid-1940s, but it would take him until 1955 to land his first hit, "Mr. Sandman." He was 31 by then, and more than a decade into his professional career.

Atkins supervised hit albums for a host of stars, ranging from Perry Como to Jim Reeves and Elvis Presley, and helped usher in and popularize the Nashville Sound.

Chet Atkins: June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 Keith Urban said contemporary country music owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Atkins – a debt that dates back to the 1950s.

Yes, Chet Atkins — a 1973 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee whose career touched and shaped artists and institutions fundamental to country music history including the Carter family and Grand ...

Chet Atkins, a guitarist who influenced such greats as George Harrison and Mark Knopfler and a record producer who created the lush string-laden Nashville Sound of the ’60s and ’70s, di… ...

Jazz musician Chet Atkins's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

"Chet belongs at [the Musicians Hall of Fame] with musicians who loved and cherished him." A who's who of unmistakable Nashville music makers was mentioned as what Atkins referred to as "C.G.P ...

READ IT ALL! Explore our Country Mile series By age 18, Atkins was back in East Tennessee as a musician on WNOX radio's Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, picking on a borrowed guitar. He made enough money ...

In Chet Atkins: A Life In Music, he remembered, “We would just gang around the piano, and work up arrangements, and put it down on tape, and ship it out. That’s the way to do it, all the ...