Guitar legend Chet Atkins is renowned for his distinctive fingerstyle playing, which combined a walking bass line with melody and rhythm. As a producer, he was an architect of the Nashville Sound, a ...

Chet Atkins, a country guitarist who helped steer the careers of some prominent Nashville acts as well as the sound of several rock bands, died Saturday. He was 77. Atkins began as a fiddler in his ...

When Porter Wagoner first brought Dolly Parton to Chet Atkins in 1967, shortly after her move to Nashville, the producer was hesitant to sign the young singer to RCA Records, turned off by her ...