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June 16, 2021

June 16th Featured Artist – Chet Atkins!

Chet Atkins playing the guitar

Any old school country fans out there? This week’s featured artist is Chet Atkins!

Born as Chester Burton “Chet” Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), and known as “Mr. Guitar” and “The Country Gentleman”, Atkins was an American musician, occasional vocalist, songwriter, and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily known as a guitarist, but he  also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele.

Atkins’s signature picking style was inspired by Merle Travis. Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and, later, Jerry Reed. His distinctive picking style and musicianship brought him admirers inside and outside the country scene, both in the United States and abroad.

Rolling Stone credited Atkins with inventing the “popwise ‘Nashville sound’ that rescued country music from a commercial slump,” and ranked him number 21 on their list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. Among many other honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received nine Country Music Association awards for Instrumentalist of the Year. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum.
Check below for a live video and tab of his song Mr Sandman!

TAB: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/chet-atkins/mister-sandman-tabs-267915

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