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.

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

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

Chet Atkins was a Ham Radio General class licensee.

In addition to recording, Atkins became a design consultant for Gretsch, who manufactured a popular Chet Atkins line of electric guitars from 1955 – 1980.

A stretch of Interstate 185 in southwest Georgia ( between LaGrange and Columbus ) is named " Chet Atkins Parkway ".

In 2009, Steve Wariner released an album entitled My Tribute to Chet Atkins.

One song from that record, " Producer's Medley ", featured Wariner's recreation of several very famous songs which Chet Atkins both produced and performed on.

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* Chet Atkins at the Country Music Hall of Fame

* 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.

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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.

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Singer Bobby Bare, who covered Jennings ' songs " Four Strong Winds " and " Just To Satisfy You ", recommended him to producer Chet Atkins, who signed Jennings to RCA Victor in 1965.

After a month, Jennings presented the master tape to Chet Atkins who decided to release it.

Bridges plays guitars such as: Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentlemen Model G6122-1959.

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During 1989, Perkins also signed a record deal with Platinum Records LTD for an album with the title Friends, Family, and Legends, featuring performances by Chet Atkins, Travis Tritt, Steve Wariner, Joan Jett and Charlie Daniels, along with Paul Shaffer and Will Lee.

Mountain City was home to Chet Atkins during his adolescence, as a result of a near fatal asthma attack that prompted him to leave his home in Tennessee and live with his father.

Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10, 1956 in a session that featured his band, The Blue Moon Boys, as well as guitarist Chet Atkins and pianist Floyd Cramer.

Fontana, Presley was joined by established RCA musicians Chet Atkins ( who also helped Sholes produce the session ) on guitar, and Floyd Cramer on piano.

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Early albums by jazz singer and trumpeter Chet Baker, dominated by gentle, androgynous vocals and dreamy instrumentation, have also been noted as an influence on the genre.

Early in his career, at the behest of noted Nashville saxophonist Boots Randolph, Burton moved to Nashville and recorded with several notable Nashville musicians including guitarist Hank Garland, pianist Floyd Cramer and guitarist Chet Atkins.

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Other notable country musicians born in the Maynardville vicinity include Carl Smith, Chet Atkins, and Kenny Chesney, the latter two having been born in nearby Luttrell.

Paul's most-recognizable recordings from then through the mid-1970s were an album for London Records / Phase 4 Stereo, Les Paul Now ( 1968 ), on which he updated some of his earlier hits ; and, backed by some of Nashville's celebrated studio musicians, a meld of jazz and country improvisation with fellow guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Chester and Lester ( 1976 ), for RCA Victor.

Music critic Chet Flippo wrote in a Texas Monthly article entitled " Mathew, Mark, Luke and Willie: Willie Nelson's latest album is more than a good country music ; it's almost Gospel ": " The difference between Nelson's Red Headed Stranger and any current C & W album, and especially what passes for a soundtrack for Nashville, is astounding.

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He discovered jazz and country artists such as Joe Pass and Chet Atkins after studying the liner notes of albums.

It featured guest appearances by Chet Atkins, fiddler Johnny Gimble, Don Felder from The Eagles and Emmylou Harris, who dueted with the band on the song " Just Can't Believe It ", which received much airplay on country stations.

* Other covers have been by The Hollies, country guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Odetta, Dolly Parton, folk chanteuse Judy Collins, The Kingston Trio, Marianne Faithfull ( 1964 single ), Jackie DeShannon, The Seekers, soul singer Sam Cooke, blues belter Etta James, Duke Ellington, Neil Young ( with air raid sound effects ), the Doodletown Pipers, Marlene Dietrich, Bobby Darin, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Sielun Veljet, on their single " Blowin ' in the Wind ", Stevie Wonder ( whose version became a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 ), John Fogerty, The Hooters on their 1994 album The Hooters Live, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and was performed by Jenny in the award-winning film Forrest Gump ( sung by Joan Baez ), and was lampooned in Me, Myself & Irene.

While LaRosa was unable to sustain his early successes, later Cadence artists included Andy Williams and the label's biggest act of all, The Everly Brothers whose hits such as " Bye Bye Love " and " Wake Up Little Susie " were produced by Bleyer in Nashville with country studio musicians led by Chet Atkins.

He became a personal friend of country star Chet Atkins.

Breau, inspired by country guitarists like Chet Atkins, used fingerstyle techniques not often used in jazz guitar.

They also served as backup musicians on a number of late 1940s and early 1950s RCA Victor recordings by Chet Atkins and on many other RCA country sessions in Chicago and Nashville.

In 1945, he became head of the country division in Nashville, Tennessee and was responsible for recruiting such talent as Chet Atkins for RCA Victor.

Jean toured and performed across the country with Wagoner, and RCA Victor producer Chet Atkins signed her to a recording contract with RCA Victor.

The joining of country and pop began in the 1950s when studio executives Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley wanted to create a new kind of music for the young adult crowd after “ rockabilly stole away much of country music's youth audience ”.

Chet Atkins, head of RCA's country music division, did the most to innovate the Nashville sound by abandoning the rougher elements of country, while Owen Bradley used sophisticated production techniques and smooth instrumentation that eventually became standard in the Nashville Sound, which also grew to incorporate strings and vocal choirs.

Allmusic reviewer Tom Jurek wrote that " Three Times a Lady " and the previous single, " Heartache Tonight " " offer ( ed ) a solid view of Twitty's amazing crossover potential, and his ability to take well-known pop tracks and turn them into solid country smashes long after the countrypolitan days of Chet Atkins and RCA.