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 ...

Few people have left a larger mark on the face of American music in general and country music in particular than Chet Atkins. As the most-recorded instrumentalist in history, countless people have ...

One hundred seventeen years ago today, the country singer/songwriter and guitarist who influenced generations was born in Kentucky.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A very familiar face here in Music City has just suddenly vanished. The beloved statue of legendary musician Chet Atkins downtown is gone, and people are up in arms. The ...

April 10 (UPI) --CMT will explore the making of the Chet Atkins tribute album 'We Still Can't Say Goodbye' - A Musicians' Tribute to Chet Atkins in a new documentary. The one-hour special 'We Still ...

On what would have been his 100th birthday, a certifiable, guitar-picking country icon is being celebrated by both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the Nashville Ballet. Yes, Chet Atkins ...

Don't worry, Vince Gill is not anywhere near his death bed, but he put himself there mentally for a moment in a recent interview. Gill revealed the one artist he would want to sing with in Heaven ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The beloved bronze statue of Chet Atkins in downtown Nashville has a new home. The guitar genius and country music hitmaker passed away in 2001 in Nashville. Before his death ...

The 3rd shoe has dropped. So long, Chet, thanks for the music!<P>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1416000/1416213.stm<P>Chet Atkins, who was ...

Kerr worked alongside "Nashville Sound" crafters Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley as a key arranger, composer, and vocalist Her Grammy-winning work in the late 1960s bested the likes of The Beatles, Beach ...