Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins and Les Paul: Guitar Monsters

by Skip Heller
April 15, 2013

The seventies were bountiful years for guitar fans. Looking now at Guitar Player magazines of the period, it's almost dizzying to see how many veteran guitarists were doing some of their most interesting and liberated work. Bop stalwarts, blues greats (often obscure), and notable country pickers were all well-represented on vinyl throughout the decade, on a variety of labels.Chet Atkins, whose easy listening country guitar records (all on RCA) were too often tasteful to a fault, came out ...

Guitar Great Chet Atkins Dead

Source: All About Jazz

Nasvhille guitar god Chet Atkins--whose pioneering fingerpicking style accompanied the likes of Elvis Presley and Hank Williams, influenced the Beatles and helped transform the entire genre of country music--died Saturday in his Tennessee home after a long bout with cancer. He was 77.

Atkins survived a bout of colon cancer in the 1970s, and in June 1997 underwent surgery to have a brain tumor removed.

Dubbed Nashville's “Mr. Guitar," Atkins left behind a massive musical legacy. He cut upwards of ...
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