Chet Atkins wasn't a fancy guitar player. He didn't command attention by gyrating his body or playing his guitar behind his head. He commanded attention by simply being one of the best, if not the ...

Chet Atkins is no longer the household name he was in the 1960s, when he was all over TV and radio with his guitar. But every year, the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society packs a Nashville hotel. This ...

Elegant guitarist Chet Atkins is one of the most regularly honored of roots-music makers, as a contributor to country and rock, as a broad musical influencer, and as a producer, label executive and ...

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 ...

Jerry Reed acted in movies and sang over the radio airwaves, but guitar-playing was at the center of his artistry. On Tuesday, June 10, a bevy of ace instrumentalists will gather at 3rd and Lindsley ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easygoing country style to compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77. Atkins ...

MAYNARDVILLE — When Chet Atkins touched the guitar strings, the world stopped. "Where there was talk of the best guitarists, he was never mentioned," country singer and friend Eddy Arnold said. "That ...

The Black Keys are well-known for helping keep blues rock alive in the new millennium, so it was only a matter of time before a member appeared on American Pickers, the History Channel show that ...

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 ...