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He returned in the 1990s to play a series of charity concerts to save the school from demolition. While living in Fortson, Atkins attended the historic Mountain Hill School. On those nights, he played his guitar until he fell asleep holding it, a habit that lasted his whole life. Because of his illness, he was forced to sleep in a straight-back chair to breathe comfortably.
He stated in his 1974 autobiography, "We were so poor and everybody around us was so poor that it was the forties before anyone even knew there had been a depression." Forced to relocate to Fortson, Georgia, outside of Columbus to live with his father because of a critical asthma condition, Atkins was a sensitive youth who became obsessed with music.
He started out on the ukulele, later moving on to the fiddle, but he made a swap with his brother Lowell when he was nine: an old pistol and some chores for a guitar. He was the youngest of three boys and a girl. His parents divorced when he was six years old, after which he was raised by his mother. George Harrison was also inspired by Chet Atkins early Beatles songs such as " All My Loving" show the influence.īiography Childhood and early life Ītkins was born on June 20, 1924, in Luttrell, Tennessee, near Clinch Mountain. 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. He also received nine Country Music Association awards for Instrumentalist of the Year. Among many other honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. 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". Atkins spent most of his career at RCA Victor and produced records for the Browns, Hank Snow, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Floyd Cramer, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings, Roger Whittaker, and many others. His distinctive picking style and musicianship brought him admirers inside and outside the country scene, both in the United States and abroad. Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and, later, Jerry Reed. He was primarily a guitarist, but he also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele.Ītkins's signature picking style was inspired by Merle Travis.
Guitar" and " The Country Gentleman", was an American musician 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. Chester Burton " Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as " Mr.
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