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Article: Obituary: Chet Atkins
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2001
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In November 1990 I had the pleasure of talking to Chet Atkins for
BBC Radio Merseyside, writes Spencer Leigh. He was promoting the CD
Neck And Neck that he had made with a more contemporary guitar hero,
Mark Knopfler. He was enthusiastic about the project and told me,
It's a lot easier and a lot more fun to make an album with
somebody else. Their playing can give a stimulus to some idea that I
might have, so it gets away from conformity.
Chet Atkins' style of playing both the melody and the rhythm
together came from Merle Travis:
We both had a fingerpicking style but I like to think that I took
it to greater heights. His style was pretty simple and I took it into
other areas, just as ...
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Transcript: Profile: Country music pioneer Chet Atkins dies ...
Weekly Edition (NPR);
July 7, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... 0000 Profile: Country music pioneer Chet Atkins dies at the age of 77 Host: NANCY MARSHALL ... host: People used to make fun of Chet Atkins. They thought the way he played guitar ... did more than 20 years ago was with Chet Atkins. I was very nervous and he was very ...
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