Matt Holliday hit 34 homers and was named to the All-Star Game ; Garrett Atkins batted. 329 and hit 29 homers.

Chester Burton " Chet " Atkins ( June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 ) was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

Among many honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, nine Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards, was inducted into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Chet Atkins was born on June 20, 1924, in Luttrell, Tennessee, near Clinch Mountain.

" Forced to relocate to Fortson, Georgia, to live with his father because of a critical asthma condition, Atkins was a sensitive youth who made music his obsession.

Atkins became an accomplished guitarist while he was in high school.

Chet Atkins was a Ham Radio General class licensee.

Traveling to Chicago, Atkins auditioned for Red Foley, who was leaving his star position on WLS-AM's National Barn Dance to join the Grand Ole Opry.

He had a solo spot on the Opry ; but when that was cut, Atkins moved on to KWTO-AM in Springfield, Missouri.

Siman had been encouraging Steve Sholes to sign Atkins, as his style ( with the success of Merle Travis as a hit recording artist ) was suddenly in vogue.

This became known as the Nashville sound which Atkins said was a label created by the media attached to a style of recording done during that period to keep country ( and their jobs ) viable.

In later years, when Bradley asked how he achieved his sound, Atkins told him " it was Porter.

" Porter described Atkins as respectful of musicians when recording — if someone was out of tune he would not single that person out by name.

When Porter left RCA in late 1964, Atkins said, " the sound was never the same, never as great.

Atkins was a member of the Million Dollar Band during the 1980s.

Atkins was buried at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens in Nashville.

In 2002, Atkins was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The song was written by Nashville songwriter Cy Coben, a friend of Atkins.

* The Million Dollar Band: This was a jam-session segment, airing from 1980 through 1988, composed of legendary Nashville musicians Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Roy Clark, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Jethro Burns, and Johnny Gimble.

In the 20th century, Looe island was owned ( and inhabited ) by two sisters, Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who wrote two books: We Bought An Island ( 1976, ISBN 0-245-52940-3 ) and its sequel Tales From Our Cornish Island ( 1986, ISBN 0-245-54265-5 ).

The Nashville Sound was developed by producers Atkins, Owen Bradley — who worked closely with Patsy Cline — Sam Phillips, and Fred Foster.

The Supreme Court declared executing the mentally handicapped in Atkins v. Virginia,, and executing people who were under age 18 at the time the crime was committed in Roper v. Simmons,, to be violations of the Eighth Amendment, regardless of the crime.

A recent biography of Vera Atkins, the intelligence officer for the French section of SOE, notes that that there was a great deal of confusion about what happened to Szabo-the story was revised four times-and states that the Sten gun incident " was probably a fabrication ".

Knopfler had long mentioned Atkins as one of his earliest influences.

Corey Atkins is the state representative for precincts one and nine ; Thomas Golden, precincts two, six and eight ; James Arciero, precincts three, five and seven ; and David Nangle, precinct four.

Atkins, like Levene and Lydon, was a control freak, but Levene had the disadvantage of having repeatedly fired Atkins over apparent trifles, and of being incapacitated on heroin much of the time — so when conflict arose again, Levene was the one to go.

Atkins stayed on through a live album ( one of the first digital live albums ever recorded ), Live in Tokyo ( 1983 ) – in which PiL consisted of him, Lydon, and a band of session musicians — and left in 1985, following the release of This Is What You Want ...

Charles Fillmore and Beryl Atkins ’ definition stipulates three elements: ( i ) the various senses of a polysemous word have a central origin, ( ii ) the links between these senses form a network, and ( iii ) understanding the ‘ inner ’ one contributes to understanding of the ‘ outer ’ one.

Although Atkins had no experience in artist management or music, Vaughan wished to have a mixed professional / personal relationship like the one she had with Treadwell.

Atkins ' presence exacerbated the rift that was forming between Ogre on the one hand, and Key and Goettel on the other.

When one of them ( Susan Atkins ) passed Folger's bedroom door, Folger, believing the woman was a friend of the Polanskis, waved and smiled at the intruder.

Atkins learned chess from one of his brothers, and joined the Wyggeston School Chess Club at age 10.

World Champion Emanuel Lasker believed that if Atkins had devoted more time to chess, he would have become one of the world's leading players.

Sir George Thomas, one of Britain's leading players in the first half of the 20th century, observed, " H. E. Atkins ranks, indisputably, as the greatest figure in English chess since Amos Burn, and only lack of opportunity prevented him, in my opinion, from definitely establishing his position in the world championship class.

Atkins ( Black ) won the following game at London 1922 against Savielly Tartakower ( White ), then one of the world's leading players.

Déricourt's possible duplicity was revealed after the war when war crimes investigators ( including Vera Atkins ) received absolute information from German sources that Dericourt had been one of their agents, BOE48, and that the information he provided had led to the arrest and execution of several SOE agents.

The entire military is made up of one man, Atkins, and he is awakened only when needed.

Atkins was given one of SOE's most sensitive jobs-recruiting and deploying female agents.

Recently controversy has arisen as to why clues that one of F section's main spy networks had been penetrated by the Germans-F section being the section of the SOE in charge of operations in France-were not picked up, and Buckmaster and Atkins failed to pull out agents at risk.

Brian Brain released six singles and one LP on Secret Records, and continued to release singles and LPs on Atkins ' own Plaid Records throughout the 1980s.

In April 2007, Atkins received its one millionth volume, a copy of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Incarcerated from October 1, 1969 until her death – a period of time one week shy of exactly 40 years – Atkins was the longest-incarcerated female inmate in the California penal system, having been denied parole 18 times.

Atkins ' parental rights were terminated once she was convicted of the murders and no one in her family would assume responsibility for the child.

In June, Atkins ' attorney, Eric P. Lampel, stated that Atkins ' condition had deteriorated to the point that she was paralyzed on one side, could only talk " a little bit ", and could not sit up in bed without assistance.

Howe said he took from Atkins, " the idea that one guitarist could play any kind of guitar style.