Archive for March 14th, 2010
This piece is on a man who sounds good playing an acoustic guitar as well as an electric guitar. Now I’m not a big fan of country, I can listen to some songs but can’t listen to allot of it.
This man rewrote the book on country by giving it a sound that’s easier to take and now known as the Nashville sound. In fact I can listen to this man all day long and not get tired of him.
His finger picking style was an inspiration to other guitarists from Les Paul to Merle Travis. He has made records with the Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings and a host of other performers.
He’s one 14 Grammy Awards as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award, nine times he has won the Country Music Association award for Instrumentalist of the Year.
Gretsch has an entire line of electric guitars and bass guitars named after this gentleman. I dare you to just listen once to this man play then tell me your not a fan.
The name of this great man is Chet Atkins.