Chet Atkins Discography

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Songs By

W.C. Handy :: Johnny Gimble :: John Lennon :: Paul McCartney :: Paul Simon :: Irving Mills :: Duke Ellington :: B.G. DeSylva :: Boudleaux Bryant :: Daryl Dybka :: Gus Kahn :: Billy Towne :: Manos Hadjidakis :: James Rich :: Helen Carter :: Jerry Reed Hubbard :: Nico Carstens :: Randy Goodrum :: Douglas Furber :: Andy Razaf

Member Of

Country All Stars :: The Nashville String Band

Influenced By

Merle Travis :: Les Paul :: Django Reinhardt :: Mother Maybelle Carter

Followers

Gary Potter :: Jerry Reed :: Steve Wariner :: Will Ackerman :: Jackie Phelps :: Dire Straits :: Bruce Mathiske :: Eddie Pennington :: Dave Edmunds :: Philip Degruy :: Junior Brown :: Eugene Chadbourne :: The Notting Hillbillies :: Earl Klugh :: The Shadows :: Link Wray :: Albert Lee :: Eric Johnson :: Larry Coryell :: Danny Davis

Similar Artists

Skeeter Davis :: Lenny Breau :: Doc Watson :: Jim Reeves :: Jerry Reed :: Don Gibson :: Floyd Cramer :: Mark Knopfler :: Paul Yandell :: Conway Twitty :: Roger Miller :: Jorgen Ingmann :: James Burton & Ralph Mooney :: Elvis Presley :: Everly Brothers

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Chet Atkins was an A&R (artist and repertoire) executive for RCA Victor Records from 1958 until 1974, producing recordings for such artists as Elvis Presley, Bobby Bare, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings, Duane Eddy, The Browns, Charley Pride, Hank Snow and The Everly Brothers, to name just a few. In the early 1960s, at the peak of his production activity, he supervised as many as 300 recording sessions a year - each session lasting at most three hours and yielding three or four arranged and completed tracks. At his disposal were the cream of Nashville session musicians, the so-called "A-list", including pianists Floyd Cramer and Hargus Robbins, saxophonist Boots Randolph, guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Hank Garland, legendary bassist Bob Moore, drummer Hugh Harman and renowned harmonica artist Charlie McCoy, backed up by superb vocalists such as Anita Kerr, Millie Kirkham and The Jordanaires. A superb talent with an amazing sense of musical creativity, Chet Atkins wrote the "book" for much of what we consider good popular music today.