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 ".

Not long afterward, she is propositioned by lowlife Randall Atkins.

* Alfie Atkins, known as Alfons Åberg in Swedish, character created by Gunilla Bergström from Sweden

The French guitarist Marcel Dadi has also been mentioned by Chet Atkins as a CGP.

She then declared no more CGP's would be allowed by the Atkins estate.

Leona Atkins outlived Atkins by eight years, dying in 2009 at the age of 85.

Atkins performed by invitation at the White House for presidents Kennedy through George H. W. Bush.

He took a considerable risk during the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement sparked violence throughout the South by signing country music's first African-American singer Charley Pride, who sang rawer country than the smoother music Atkins had pioneered.

In the 1970s, Atkins became increasingly stressed by his executive duties.

Exponents of this style often come from a country, folk or ragtime background, such as Chet Atkins, although it is also sometimes employed by straight-ahead jazz practitioners, for instance Martin Taylor.

Orbison attempted to sell to RCA Victor songs he recorded that were written by other writers as well, working with and being completely in awe of Chet Atkins who had played guitar with Presley.

During three recording sessions in 1958 and 1959, Orbison and Melson recorded seven songs at RCA Nashville, with Atkins producing, but only two songs were judged worthy of release by RCA ; Wesley Rose maneuvered Orbison into the sights of producer Fred Foster at Monument Records.

Spenser ( his first name is never revealed ) is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins.

Ritual Entertainment was a video game developer established in 1996 by Robert Atkins, Mark Dochtermann, Jim Dosé, Richard ' Levelord ' Gray, Michael Hadwin, Harry Miller and Tom Mustaine.

Atkins also revealed that the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, the night after the Tate murders, were also committed by Family members, and incriminated Leslie Van Houten as a participant in the second murder.

Atkins testified before the grand jury that she had been unable to stab Sharon Tate and that she was killed by Watson, a contradiction of statements she had made prior to her arrest.

*" Military March " with Marion Davies singing " Oh, What a Man " and " Tommy Atkins on Parade " followed by military drill and dancing.

Fromm's four non-productive orientations also served as basis for the LIFO test, first published in 1967 by Stuart Atkins, Alan Katcher, PhD, and Elias Porter, PhD and the Strength Deployment Inventory, first published in 1971 by Chris H. Porter, PhD,

Soon after his arrival at Sydney, in August 1806, Bligh was given an address of welcome signed by Major Johnston for the military, by Richard Atkins for the civilian officers, and by John Macarthur for the free settlers.