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After dropping out of high school in 1942, Atkins landed a job at WNOX-AM radio in Knoxville.

There he played fiddle and guitar with singer Bill Carlisle and comic Archie Campbell as well as becoming a member of the station's Dixieland Swingsters, a small swing instrumental combo.

After three years, he moved to WLW-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Merle Travis had formerly worked.