Rating: - Chet is the man
Awesome CD. This is a great place to start for Chet fans. I wish it had Dark Eyes but I'm not complaining.
Rating: - Best Chet album I've heard
This is my favorite Chet Atkins album. I never really heard him until just a couple of years ago when I picked up a CD at a local library when I was feeling a bit glum and wanted to find something perhaps a bit surprising. I was teaching a class of college freshmen and was disappointed with how devoid of any sense of recent (or any other!) cultural history they all were--even the "A" students. (It was a design/drawing class so that struck me as a bad sign!)
I'm 52 years old and had only heard of him in the context of Ray Stevens' "Gitarzan" when I was in Junior High school! ("He's ... Read More
Rating: - +1/2 -- Career spanning retrospective of landmark guitarist
Those of us who grew up in the rock era, particularly those who grew up outside the South (where country music still held sway during the '60s and '70s), know Atkins best through the impact he had on his acolytes. Starting with the merging of hillbilly and R&B into rockabilly, rock 'n' roll and rock, Atkins' picking technique (itself an expansion of Merle Travis' syncopated thumb-and-finger style) can be heard on Sun's early sides, from the guitar combos of the British Invasion, American instrumental bands like The Ventures, and through to more recent fans like Mark Knopfler. Atkins' guitar was ... Read More
Rating: - CD.
The sevice and delivery were quick and efficient.
I'm very happy with both Amazon and the product.
I'll be back!
Rating: - Country Gentleman
When I asked Vince Gill recently what had first attracted him to the guitar, he told me, "I wanted to be Chet Atkins as a little boy. Just listening to those records, I couldn't even fathom how he did all that."
He is not alone. The list of Chet Atkins-wannabes includes George Harrison, Mark Knopfler, Brian Setzer, Duane Eddy, Earl Klugh and thousands of others, known and unknown, who have come under the spell of his amazing guitaristics. Not flashy in the conventional sense, not loud and boisterous like so many rockers who followed him, Atkins was the consummate musician, a master ... Read More
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