This was his main guitar during the 1960s and he used it in songs like his famous Yakety Axe, a version of Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax, in which he uses all his tricks to adapt the fast melody to the guitar. The electric tone on those records was all Gretsch. Rolling Stone panel of top guitarists and experts picks 100 Greatest Guitarists, from Pete Townshend and Lindsey Buckingham to Prince and Jimi Hendrix. Chet Atkins. Chet Atkins left a dinosaur-sized footprint in the history of the six-stringed instrument. As a young man in Australia, Emmanuel wrote to his hero Chet Atkins in Nashville, Tennessee. The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream (1958) The country artist played the guitar using the thumb for the bass lines and the index finger to play the melody. He would play it. He is one of the best guitarists of all time! 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He also received nine Country Music Association awards for Instrumentalist of the Year. Cochran was a nice kid who just happened to release the first real punk records; a fact not lost on Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren when he had Sid Vicious record a couple of Cochran’s tunes. Even the lighthearted Twenty Flight Rock had an undercurrent of sexual frustration in its lyrics. Eddie Cochran probably wouldn’t have taken to the new design. Chet didn't particularly like Gretsch but after a series of conversations with the company they adapted a number of the guitarist's ideas and gave him a guitar he couldn't refuse. So much so that when he made his first appearance in the Grand Ole Opry he was eyed strangely for not sounding "country enough". Two extremely gifted guitar players on the “Mount Rushmore” of American guitar players. who, in turn, had got it from his bandleader, for RCA and shortly thereafter, in 1949, he began working with the, who would use it in the recording of the mythical, in 1902 and which was popularized by the movie, All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers, Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins Poor boy blues. Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, Selige Stunde, review: a delightful tasting menu of songs, Sweet Dreams by Dylan Jones review: name-dropping with the New Romantics, From the West End to the gig economy: how Britain's top musicians are struggling to survive, Huey Lewis: ‘We turned down Coca-Cola’s $5m advert deal’, Lewis Capaldi, Sneaky Pete's, review: heartbreak and haemorrhoids in this  intimate live-streamed show, Pop's biggest 'what if? 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The best rock guitarists of all time (Image credit: ... Favouring fingerstyle over picking, and citing Scotty Moore and Chet Atkins as heroes, Buckingham would steer Mac in a broader musical direction, from pop and rock to folk and more avant garde offerings. Billboard magazine awarded him its Century Award, its "highest honor for distinguished creative achievement," in December 1997. That same year Ray Butts, an electronics magician, decided to find Atkins and give him his latest invention, the first portable amplifier called EchoSonic that also had an echo effect that would be fundamental for the propagation of rock & roll. Send a Tip Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and, later, Jerry Reed. Guitar” and “The Country Gentleman”, was an American musician, occasional vocalist, songwriter, and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, Bob Ferguson, and others, created the country music style that came to be known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country music's appeal to adult pop music fans. Chet’s new guitar had a 16” wide, 2 7⁄8” deep laminated maple body with bound f-holes, a 24.5” scale maple neck and 9” radius rosewood fingerboard. One of the most gifted guitarists who ever lived, Atkins was one of the architects of “The Nashville Sound”, a gentrification of country music using piano and strings that rescued the genre from annihilation by rock’n’roll and recut it for a adult audience. The big orange guitar. Ed Mitchell Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Atkins was delighted to receive the amplifier and Gretsch's prototype and put it to good use in the most famous song of his career, his instrumental version of Mr. Sandman that would give him one of the greatest hits of his career and make his Gretsch line a success. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Although he had not yet achieved success on his own, Atkins' reputation as Nashville's most important guitarist had crossed over the Tennessee border. As an longtime Eddie Cochran fan - The Who famously covered the dead rocker’s Summertime Blues - he must’ve known of his idol’s deep affection for the G6120. Chet with his long tenured career as The Greatest Country picker (while also heading up RCA’s Nashville Division for over 20 years). By practicing Atkins would be able to add the middle and ring fingers to his famous 'fingerpickin' style. Chet Atkins loved the sound of the Spanish/Classical guitar, in fact one of his favorite guitars was a 1969 Ramirez that he kept in his room and played it often. Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. Cochran bought his G6120 from Bell Gardens Music in Bell Gardens, California, in 1955 when he was just 16. In Atkins' incredible technique you could notice his appreciation for blues and jazz, something that was already evident in his first solo recording, also in 1946, Guitar Blues.

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