Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins was born on Jun 20, 1924 in USA. Chet Atkins's big-screen debut came with Nashville Rebel directed by Jay Sheridan in 1966, strarring Chet Atkins. Chet Atkins is known for Nashville 99 directed by Lawrence Dobkin, Claude Akins stars as Det. Lt. Stonewall Huff and Jerry Reed as Det. Trace Mayne. Chet Atkins has got 19 awards and 33 nominations so far. The most recent award Chet Atkins achieved is Music City Walk Of Fame. The upcoming new movie Chet Atkins plays is Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story which will be released on Jan 22, 1995.

Chet Atkins was an A&R (artist and repertoire) executive for RCA Victor Records from 1958 until 1974, producing recordings for such artists as Elvis Presley, Bobby Bare, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings, Duane Eddy, The Browns, Charley Pride, Hank Snow and The Everly Brothers, to name just a few. In the early 1960s, at the peak of his production activity, he supervised as many as 300 recording sessions a year - each session lasting at most three hours and yielding three or four arranged and completed tracks. At his disposal were the cream of Nashville session musicians, the so-called "A-list", including pianists Floyd Cramer and Hargus Robbins, saxophonist Boots Randolph, guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Hank Garland, legendary bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and renowned harmonica artist Charlie McCoy, backed up by superb vocalists such as Anita Kerr, Millie Kirkham and The Jordanaires. A superb talent with an amazing sense of musical creativity, Chet Atkins wrote the "book" for much of what we consider good popular music today.