I've been a Chet nut since 1959. Thanks guys for bringing back such great stories of his life. No dry eyes on this guy after having watched and listened to it.
I was lucky enough to get to remodel his home in Nashville and it was 6 wonderful months of work. He was always playen. I would go over plans and design details and he would have a guitar in hand. Breakfast table meetings were so cool and I never made a comment about being a player, mainly out of just fear he would want me to play in front of him. But on the last day of the job I brought my guitar and he was so kind and signed it to your pal Chet Atkins CGP. I'm so proud to have know him.
Growing up in a poor family I never went to music concerts, but in my early 20's Mom arranged to buy a ticket to a Chet Atkins concert as a birthday present. She gave me the ticket 5 days before my B-day so I wouldn't have any conflict in my planned day. Sad to say Mom passed away the night before the concert. I almost didn't go do to the grief, of the death but it hit me. She went to great expense and effort to give me the opportunity, knowing how special it would be to me to see Chet live. That day I cried a little, laughed a lot. Must say Chet helped take a little sting out of my most devastating times.
Sad but beautiful story. I am sure your mom did many wonderful things for you but at the time God and music helped to heal your heart. The power that music has on the soul of a human is an amazing thing and i would say your mother understood that. Thank you for sharing!
I've been playing for 50 years but could listen to these three guys play for hours at end. I had my right thumb on the screen the whole time while I was shouting saying "you see? It isn't that hard!" lolo Thank you very much for sharing.
I am going to be 62 years old and I just saw the Chet Atkins and friends show and I spent three weekends learning the Travis picking for beginners. If I stay at it, I will have a wonderful summer. I am learning on my Telecaster and hope to progress to my 12 string Taylor. Thanks to all of you and your tunes. What an inspiration!
Bless all of you for making this wonderful tribute to my guitar hero. I'm turning 70 and a die hard Chet fan. I have nothing but praise for the artist in this video and admire their own work as well. Thanks to all involved with this project.
Chet is an intellectual. His spirit lives on through us, he is such an inspiration. I've never had the opportunity to meet him but yet I've absorbed so many stories and good vibes about his life. Chet you literally give me a reason to live. My gratitude is immeasurable.
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Ha! Me too (except I just turned 64).. I started guitar lessons in 3rd grade, but my teacher wouldn't teach me any Beatles tunes so after 3 summers I quit! The Impatience of Youth! Now I build cigar box guitars! Lol!
This is such a nice video. No exaggerated gushing, no overexcited hero worship, just mature and laid back reflection on how Chet Atkins really was. The fact that it features actual players, who seem as gifted as they are grounded, makes this tribute even more enjoyable to watch.
that was great boys! Chet is still an inspiration to all musicians and for a long time to come...He certainly changed my life. Now as I walk the earth in other parts of the world, hearing other sounds, what stays in my head is the music of Chet.
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It's good to note that those who are the "best" at their craft are humble, and never stop trying to get better at it. Add to bucket list: Find Chet Atkins' statue, and get my picture taken having a conversation.
Don't usually watch hour long video's....watched every square inch of this one, enjoyed it immensely, and tears came to my eyes when it ended!! Wanted it to go on another hour!!!! Great job guys!!!!!
" It must just be really hard, that's all, and It was really hard, belive me"! He he. The man knows. For the longest time something was missing in my life, until i heard Chet play again on a record some years ago. Now i am getting a Gretsch. I want to thank Gretsch Guitars for uploading this. Such fantastic players. A treasure and a testament of the wonderful music and playing of Chet Atkins. He appears to have been a rock solid dude with heart and skill unmatched. Respect!
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Chet's been my gold standard since I was 12... the sound ... that sound... and the driving bass pickin' rhythm... i grew up with his music in the 60's ... in Australia... and he influenced every pro. guitar player I knew... just love everything about this man... at the very top of all the thousands of guitar videos I've watched on You Tube..
This is just a wonderful tribute to Chet with so gifted players and stories. I’ve watched this several times and will continue to watch. The quality is also great. I hope that they never take this down.
Dear James: I will always love Chet he will always be my favorite I play him whenever I can. He did a nice thing bringing in Mark Knopfler on a few of his albums producing as well lovely collaboration. K L
Congrats to Mr Joe Carducci for producing a heart warming and gorgeously arranged tribute! It cannot be veiwed without tightness in the throat and tears in the eyes. Thank you so much for the lovely performances and touching rememberances. You are indeed a man Chet would have loved.
I was blessed to meet Chet several times in the 70's and 80's as well as one of his luthiers, Hascal Haile in Tompkinsville KY. They were both Country Gentlemen.
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I've been playing for 40 years and I cannot even get close to what Chet Atkins and these guys are playing. Very smooth and clean Nashville Kats- been pickin since they were babies!.
Now there's some beautiful guitar playing. I can imagine the hours, days , weeks, years it took working at it to make it flow so easy, it just rolls off their fingers like warm butter on fresh baked melt in your mouth corn bread. Delicious.
I was a kid growing up in the 1950s. I had my own subscription to Columbia Record Club and got records monthly, more Chet Atkins than any one else. At night I would put a Chet LP on my record player beside the bed and fall asleep to his music. I have his autograph from an appearance he made at a record shop in downtown Macon, Georgia about 1961 as he promoted a new album. Currently, every Sunday morning I listen to Doyle Dykes’ Sunday Morning String Along. With that background, you might understand why for me, this is possibly the greatest video upload I have ever seen.
A great guitar player and a great person. But one thing that no one pay attention to is that he had the most gentle touch towards his guitar than any other guitar player I've ever seen. A real gentleman.
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Stopping this video to go dust off the old guitars and start playing again. What higher praise, thanks guys!
No doubt in my mind that Chet would gladly call these fine guitar players his "brothers". I believe that because of the nice humility I see in them all, and Chet seemed to be the most humble one of them all, a trait as good as his playing. Good job here for sure, thanks for posting.
Just came across this while researching my next Gretsch purchase. Thanks for posting, This was most excellent! Met Doyle one time at a clinic in Asheville, NC. Very nice, humble gentleman who is just a stellar player and human being.
Guy, this was such a blessing. It really brings you to a place of knowing what he was like even without having personally met him. That feeling has even rubbed off into expanding the way I visualize and understand the guitar in relation to music and playing.
xXBlinDXx12 I was lucky to get hooked up with an older player when I was a teen. He was so laid-back and kind it wasn't funny. It occurs to me right now that this guy ("Big Bad" John Souder) seemed to be the embodiment of how we might imagine what kind of a person Chet was. I have to wonder if Chet's personality influenced a lot of players to learn to behave like a "country gentleman? Wouldn't this mean that Chet Atkins either directly or indirectly has been making a positive difference in our lives, above and beyond his musicianship?
xXBlinDXx12 and, you know, you could show other people Chet's playing and being interviewed plus interviews of people paying tribute to him and lots of other recordings and I think most would recognise a good player, but he and his legacy is so much more than that..... crikey, Look at Tommy!! Tommys' been discouraging me for 27yrs!!Ha ha ha some times I wonder why I try, when all I need to do is put him in the deck(or indeed, Chet himself) and bliss out for ages at a time...
What a great tribute. I'd like to hear why from anyone who voted thumbs down, Why? What here could you possibly not like? Great musicians, great stories about a great man! I'll bet something is missing from your life, my guess is a heart and brain.
It is kind emotional when you are in there considering the amount of talent that has been. In there. My wife and I were in there, all by ourselves, and, had a chance to look around at all of it.
Superb! Has it really been a decade, since Steve Wariner stepped before the cameras to host this gem -- featuring all our guitar heroes, who credit Chet Atkins as their greatest influence. That's Steve's signature model Gretsch "Country Gentleman." Doyle Dykes! Late in life Chet was asked if there was anyone he'd "pay to see" and Mr. Guitar replied: "Oh, someone like Doyle Dykes." Deepest thanks to Gretsch Guitars for this 'welcome treat for eyes and ears.'
I thought they complemented each other wonderfully. Mark has a little more "bite" and Chet has the tunes and the melodies. They also bounced off each other verbally very well too. Two nice blokes.
My Dad went to the concert in Indy when Chet & Mark toured together. He had no idea who Mark is?! He said "That other guy wasn't bad but he's no Chet Atkins." I'm sure Mark would agree. I bought him "Neck & Neck" for Christmas that year.
As a lad I collected many imported LPs by Chet in the 1950's and 60's - they're still in my collection even though they're now on CD. One of my original guitar heroes.
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That was delightful. Thank you! I’ve been a Chet Atkins fan since I was about 15 (60 years ago!). I wanted guitar lessons so my mother found someone to give me lessons. My instructor moved away several months later but left me a beautiful Gretch guitar to use as long as I wanted. His nephew came by a couple months later and told me he wanted it 😢 I never did become a musician anyway.
Pure magic, At 15, I heard a Mr Atkins song, bought a guitar, and have never stopped playing since....( still not that good) but great therapy and a target in life to aim for. R.I.P. Mon Ami, look forward to meeting you soon
I've been glad and honoured just to have been here in the right time zone to catch him. I found Chet in 1960. What an artiste and innovator. Thanks Chet RIP!
Thank you for putting this together. I remember seeing Chet play at the Rialto theatre in Joliet, Illinois and still to this day his performance that day reminds me that Chet transcended the limits of being human, for during that show it was just pure music the came from him. What a special person he was, for the kindness of his soul was projected through his guitar.
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Friggin Awesome. Steve Wariner is one of my favorite artists. All of you are totally awesome guitarists. I play but not at this level lol but love it . 61 year old from Newfoundland Canada here. Awesome Awesome Video and Tribute. Thanks so mush for doing it and taking time to show us all your awesome awesome talents .All 4 of you are Amazing Artists.
I am so so glad I was able to see him in concert twice! I listened to a song of his that I thought sounded easy and simple because I liked fingerpicking but wooo, nope, it wasnt easy thats for sure!! He made it sound that way
THANK YOU for this loving tribute to a man who truly deserves it. I especially enjoyed it when all three of you played together, keeping his legacy alive in both your words and music. When I visited his bronze statue in Nashville, I actually cried just looking at it...
18:46 This is how music has evolved to become literally *all* of the genres we hear today. Everything from country and blues to jazz and rock and beyond. A great player takes bits here and there from all of their influences and creates something new that is their own.
Although I am from Canada, we love music to! I was raised in a family filled with music. I started learning Chet's songs when I was 12 and still keep learning them! He was amazing as well as the musicians on this video!
Gretch ...is the perfect brand of guitar for Mr. Chet Atkins... Love to learn some things from him everytime I listen to him... He was Immaculate in technique in my opinion... Miss him much... I first heard one of his albums at 12 years old... I've been playing many instruments since then... Four, in fact!!! Love all four of them.... Thanks man!!!
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I will never forget hearing for the 1st time I was truly amazed. His diversity was truly amazing. In 1972 he did the album Me and Jerry, jammed with Three Dog Night on a Kraft Music Hall Special, then played with The Boston Pops Orchestra. I even heard him play a guitar rendition of the gospel song Leaning on The Everlasting Arms on a tape with Carmen. How's that for diversity!!!!!!!
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Well worth the watch---always a treat to hear good words from men who knew him so well, the relating of how Chet affected them all their careers. These fellows have a good humility about them--like Chet was.
My father in law started talking about Chet Atkins one day. I went home and ask my wife about it and she said when her dad was growing up he would play for hours. He doesn't play anymore he cut some of his fingers off but every once and a blue moon he will play. So Chet still lives on to this day because now I am hooked on his music.
As a teenager during the late 50’s /60’s I purchased two of his albums which I have down stairs by my turntable. I tried to learn how to play his way but I never got past the rhythm section. I still play on occasion but arthritis has limited me a lot. Thanks for this tribute I throughly appreciate it!
This is a wonderful tribute to Chet Atkins! Chet Atkins is a huge influence on the way I play guitar and my main reason for doing music in the first place!
My hero, Smashing guitar players, love their playing. Think I`ll take my guitar out & bury it in the garden ! Many thanks for this great show. Ken. UK.
Take it out and practice instead. If you can't be as good as others, be as good as you can be. Besides it is all about us having a good time for the rest of our lives.
I'm still a DJ. My main job was to introduce a new artist to its audience and an old artist to its new audience. I turn 82 in January 2020 and I have to acknowledge the DJ in me is still alive and well; even if I am the only one to enjoy the sound. It is a truth: old soldiers (or DJ) never die, they just fade away (out of the public eye, so-to-speak). Love is an inside job and I am still very much in love with the very sound of music from which direction it may come. In high school I played melody Sax; I could even make it "talk" and say "I want my Mama". It was after my radio career that I fell in love with the Nashville Sound (better late than never, right?). There are talents that you are born with and you are very lucky to know them whenever they show up in your life. I even have learned to be a stand-up comic. Lots of bad things in life get turned around by viewing them from a comic viewpoint. If you want to live a long healthy life, there are certain rules you learn from animals. Problems in life should be treated like water off a ducks back. Just let it roll. Off preferably. Women on my mother's side of the family lived into their hundreds or near hundreds. Adalaide Cornelia Strait Straway lived to her 99th and her mother lived to 104. My mother was in her 90's I think because she was a modern woman holding her cigarette like the role models of her day. She had a contralto voice and sang with Johnny Johnston in Ithaca, NY and tried her darnedest to teach me to sing harmony with her. It never happened, unfortunately. She didn't pass on to her first-born her natural talent of song but I did inherit a stage presence when I had to. In my radio days I did a live remote at Rodeo Days of Salinas, CA which was a hit with my new radio station trying to be a viable presence in the CA market. We made ourselves known by putting live "people of mention" of the Salinas area politicians and hooked up to the outside "cell" where people were incarcerated for not wearing western wear on Rodeo Days where we had donation boxes mounted for the Heart Fund Drive and collected over $100K in donations just being in a high traffic area in front of the new jail. I never got a "big head" about it, because I saw it as a job and I loved talking to the citizenry. However, the then Police Chief walked deliberately out of my reach, proving what a coward he was, and how he shied away from speaking on the air. I thought he blew a very good platform to deliver a good message from my incarceration at his jail. He didn't perform extemporaneously about anything, let alone an on-the-spot interview on live radio. I chalked it up as his missed opportunity to connect with the people of his county and let them know who he was. Now back to Chet: my missed opportunity. I have a video and his music to bring him back any time I want. Thanks, Chet, for sharing your genius in this way.
Hello from UK Janet Trim. Your fame is spreading! "Aptitude" is the word I use to describe the apparent ease some people hit the ground running in a chosen pursuit. It's comparatively rare but when it happens you get a Chet Atkins. He had many gifts that counted. His quiet wit and unassuming persona. His choice of material to play and the tone he extracted from his guitar preceded his amazing dexterity and musicality that he brought to bear on his product. I was lucky to hear Chet as soon as I did being over here. C1959. I had started on the guitar and a friend loaned me two of his rare LP's. Other people who heard it said exactly what I said and it varied from polite appreciation to outrage that I could not do it! I had to calm down and just steal what I could. The tunes were a start. His aims were a good target too. Now it turned out that I never did find my own exceptional aptitude in any particular domain. I am the Gemini that I am. An all rounder. Its good to settle for. I am quite good at a lot of different things but never exceptional. I lack the drive to complete things. Maybe I just can't! Sometimes its just nice to stop wondering how its done and just sit back and enjoy it. I also listened to Jim Reeves in Norway (1964) here on UA-cam. It flowed off him. No apparent effort - he could just sing so silky it would tickle your mind in appreciation. Rendering a song. There have been others. I suppose Patsy Cline amongst the girls. Such a style. Or another great loss like Buddy Holly. All the while Chet carried on steadily in the three-quarter light making a contribution - instictively knowing what people would like and how to get it done. He left us his legacy along with other phenomena like Django Reinhardt. So you're 80 are yer! Congratulations! I am nearly 77 but that won't stop me chasing you around the park! Watch out Janet! XX
Always love Chets playing style and his plucky sound and his guitar playing that national anthem and the tune glory hallelujah even today bring tears because you can feel he was playing right out of his heart his soul through his instrument via his hands.
This is easily the best and most heartfelt tribute to Chet I've ever seen. If anyone were to ask me who Chet was, or why he is so highly thought of, I would just show this to them and that would be enough. If you love Chet, even if you know most everything about him, this tribute will help you appreciate him even more than you thought you could. If you never heard of Chet, watching this will, at the very least, make you truly appreciate the man, if not turn you into a complete fan right away. I'm sure Chet would be humbly embarrassed by all the kind words, but he is unquestionably deserving of them. there will never be another Chet Atkins, but I'm so very glad we had the one we got...what a treasure!
Love it Chet Atkins absolutely beautiful brilliant heaven where do you stop I own 1 LP of his it's supperb I wish I could play guitar like him hats off to the three guys playing his music brilliant
Steve Howe has mentioned several times what an influence Chet was to him. So even the Great Prog Rock Maestro of the guitar owes His success to Chet Atkins. So for all you C&W fans out there I would recommend listening to "The Clap" by Steve Howe from YES if you want to hear some astonishing Travis Picking Bluegrass/Progressive Rock Acoustic. If you have never heard it.
I've been a Chet nut since 1959. Thanks guys for bringing back such great stories of his life. No dry eyes on this guy after having watched and listened to it.
A genius among geneses. Agree. Chet playing in heaven.
I was lucky enough to get to remodel his home in Nashville and it was 6 wonderful months of work. He was always playen. I would go over plans and design details and he would have a guitar in hand. Breakfast table meetings were so cool and I never made a comment about being a player, mainly out of just fear he would want me to play in front of him. But on the last day of the job I brought my guitar and he was so kind and signed it to your pal Chet Atkins CGP. I'm so proud to have know him.
That is so freaking cool. If that was me 6 months might stretched to 9 lol
That's awesome! Check out my band Randy Thomas & the Insecures
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Doyle Dykes playing in the outro was just phenomenal. What a player. Just another Chet study, and friend. Outstanding video.
Doyle does things on a guitar that in my younger life, I would’ve told people would be impossible.
Growing up in a poor family I never went to music concerts, but in my early 20's Mom arranged to buy a ticket to a Chet Atkins concert as a birthday present. She gave me the ticket 5 days before my B-day so I wouldn't have any conflict in my planned day. Sad to say Mom passed away the night before the concert. I almost didn't go do to the grief, of the death but it hit me. She went to great expense and effort to give me the opportunity, knowing how special it would be to me to see Chet live. That day I cried a little, laughed a lot. Must say Chet helped take a little sting out of my most devastating times.
Such a sad but beautiful story. Your mom must be listening to Chet play in heaven.
Sad but beautiful story. I am sure your mom did many wonderful things for you but at the time God and music helped to heal your heart. The power that music has on the soul of a human is an amazing thing and i would say your mother understood that. Thank you for sharing!
Moms are so special, arent they ?
Wow!
It's very sad to have to associate such a heartache with a Chet concert. However, you seem to have made it work for you and not against. ATB
I've been playing for 50 years but could listen to these three guys play for hours at end. I had my right thumb on the screen the whole time while I was shouting saying "you see? It isn't that hard!" lolo Thank you very much for sharing.
I am going to be 62 years old and I just saw the Chet Atkins and friends show and I spent three weekends learning the Travis picking for beginners. If I stay at it, I will have a wonderful summer. I am learning on my Telecaster and hope to progress to my 12 string Taylor. Thanks to all of you and your tunes. What an inspiration!
Bless all of you for making this wonderful tribute to my guitar hero. I'm turning 70 and a die hard Chet fan. I have nothing but praise for the artist in this video and admire their own work as well. Thanks to all involved with this project.
Our team was incredible. Hats off to Joe Carducci, who had the vision and made it all happen.
What a beautiful tribute to Chet. Wonderful playing and informative, humorous stories.
Chet is an intellectual. His spirit lives on through us, he is such an inspiration. I've never had the opportunity to meet him but yet I've absorbed so many stories and good vibes about his life. Chet you literally give me a reason to live. My gratitude is immeasurable.
Chet was the 1st player I ever saw play 2 songs at once.. probably the best pure guitar player ever! RIP Chet
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I heard his name so often but never realised what a talent and what an incredibly decent music loving human being
I'm 65 next week. I got started on guitar at around 7 or 8 and immediately discovered Chet Atkins. Been learning ever since...
Ha! Me too (except I just turned 64).. I started guitar lessons in 3rd grade, but my teacher wouldn't teach me any Beatles tunes so after 3 summers I quit! The Impatience of Youth! Now I build cigar box guitars! Lol!
same here except i'm 67 ...
i started at age 9 and always dug chet and doc watson...
This is such a nice video. No exaggerated gushing, no overexcited hero worship, just mature and laid back reflection on how Chet Atkins really was. The fact that it features actual players, who seem as gifted as they are grounded, makes this tribute even more enjoyable to watch.
that was great boys! Chet is still an inspiration to all musicians and for a long time to come...He certainly changed my life. Now as I walk the earth in other parts of the world, hearing other sounds, what stays in my head is the music of Chet.
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@@pattistilwell7424 again? Twice now…
It's good to note that those who are the "best" at their craft are humble, and never stop trying to get better at it.
Add to bucket list: Find Chet Atkins' statue, and get my picture taken having a conversation.
R.I.P. Chet! An absolute MASTER OF MUSIC!!! 🙂
Don't usually watch hour long video's....watched every square inch of this one, enjoyed it immensely, and tears came to my eyes when it ended!! Wanted it to go on another hour!!!! Great job guys!!!!!
" It must just be really hard, that's all, and It was really hard, belive me"! He he. The man knows. For the longest time something was missing in my life, until i heard Chet play again on a record some years ago. Now i am getting a Gretsch. I want to thank Gretsch Guitars for uploading this. Such fantastic players. A treasure and a testament of the wonderful music and playing of Chet Atkins. He appears to have been a rock solid dude with heart and skill unmatched. Respect!
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Amazing tribute, didn't want it to end... Thanks Gretsch !!!!!
Chet's been my gold standard since I was 12... the sound ... that sound... and the driving bass pickin' rhythm... i grew up with his music in the 60's ... in Australia... and he influenced every pro. guitar player I knew... just love everything about this man... at the very top of all the thousands of guitar videos I've watched on You Tube..
What I find so charming in this video is how we get to see Chet through the eyes of other skillful guitarists. That's special.
Wow!!! When the three guitarists play together.... sensational!!!!!
This is just a wonderful tribute to Chet with so gifted players and stories. I’ve watched this several times and will continue to watch. The quality is also great. I hope that they never take this down.
Chet still is my guitar hero and I'll always try to play like him. Sadly missed and he changed music forever. A giant and a gent
Is this the REAL James Taylor, or just a wannabe??
James Taylor
Thank you for your kind & true thoughts.
K.L.
tiffsaver I'm not the 'You've got a friend James Taylor' but my name is James Taylor 🙂
Dear James: I will always love Chet he will always be my favorite I play him whenever I can. He did a nice thing bringing in Mark Knopfler on a few of his albums producing as well lovely collaboration. K L
K. LaCava you may like this. It’s a Chet version I did of ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’. ua-cam.com/video/ZIp0R-osXic/v-deo.html
These guys are really really good! Chet was simply one of the most influential icons in American music period!
Now _that_ was a great fkn tribute.
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Congrats to Mr Joe Carducci for producing a heart warming and gorgeously arranged tribute! It cannot be veiwed without tightness in the throat and tears in the eyes. Thank you so much for the lovely performances and touching rememberances. You are indeed a man Chet would have loved.
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I was blessed to meet Chet several times in the 70's and 80's as well as one of his luthiers, Hascal Haile in Tompkinsville KY. They were both Country Gentlemen.
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I've been playing for 40 years and I cannot even get close to what Chet Atkins and these guys are playing. Very smooth and clean Nashville Kats- been pickin since they were babies!.
Now there's some beautiful guitar playing. I can imagine the hours, days , weeks, years it took working at it to make it flow so easy, it just rolls off their fingers like warm butter on fresh baked melt in your mouth corn bread. Delicious.
+Jack Sprat you are so correct ...but who wants to work that hard today?
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Doyle Dykes..... you are the best since Chet Atkins !!!! Long may you run !!!
I see things different now!!! Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Central America! Guatemala City!!!
I was a kid growing up in the 1950s. I had my own subscription to Columbia Record Club and got records monthly, more Chet Atkins than any one else. At night I would put a Chet LP on my record player beside the bed and fall asleep to his music. I have his autograph from an appearance he made at a record shop in downtown Macon, Georgia about 1961 as he promoted a new album. Currently, every Sunday morning I listen to Doyle Dykes’ Sunday Morning String Along. With that background, you might understand why for me, this is possibly the greatest video upload I have ever seen.
A great guitar player and a great person. But one thing that no one pay attention to is that he had the most gentle touch towards his guitar than any other guitar player I've ever seen. A real gentleman.
Stopping this video to go dust off the old guitars and start playing again.
What higher praise, thanks guys!
I think the picture that I have of Chet with my Grandmother and Great Aunt when they recorded together is probably my most prized posession.
Truly remarkable that one man could leave such a legacy and influence so many for good. Thanks to John and Steve and all for sharing.
No doubt in my mind that Chet would gladly call these fine guitar players his "brothers". I believe that because of the nice humility I see in them all, and Chet seemed to be the most humble one of them all, a trait as good as his playing. Good job here for sure, thanks for posting.
Yesssss.......There was only One Chet Atkins.......This was a great Tribute ....Thank You Bruce for sharing.......
Just came across this while researching my next Gretsch purchase.
Thanks for posting, This was most excellent!
Met Doyle one time at a clinic in Asheville, NC. Very nice, humble gentleman who is just a stellar player and human being.
Guy, this was such a blessing. It really brings you to a place of knowing what he was like even without having personally met him. That feeling has even rubbed off into expanding the way I visualize and understand the guitar in relation to music and playing.
xXBlinDXx12 I was lucky to get hooked up with an older player when I was a teen. He was so laid-back and kind it wasn't funny. It occurs to me right now that this guy ("Big Bad" John Souder) seemed to be the embodiment of how we might imagine what kind of a person Chet was. I have to wonder if Chet's personality influenced a lot of players to learn to behave like a "country gentleman? Wouldn't this mean that Chet Atkins either directly or indirectly has been making a positive difference in our lives, above and beyond his musicianship?
Yes, I would say so and agree.
xXBlinDXx12 and, you know, you could show other people Chet's playing and being interviewed plus interviews of people paying tribute to him and lots of other recordings and I think most would recognise a good player, but he and his legacy is so much more than that..... crikey, Look at Tommy!! Tommys' been discouraging me for 27yrs!!Ha ha ha some times I wonder why I try, when all I need to do is put him in the deck(or indeed, Chet himself) and bliss out for ages at a time...
The legend , Chet Atkins and a special guitar Gretsch ! Two hearts in One ! 💖
This was just wonderful! Miss Chet so much. I think his humility made you love him, and of course his great talent. Thanks for making this video.
My Dad introduced me to Chet Adkins from birth. Because of the Masters I’ve had an ear for music my whole life. Phenomenal!
What a great tribute. I'd like to hear why from anyone who voted thumbs down, Why? What here could you possibly not like? Great musicians, great stories about a great man! I'll bet something is missing from your life, my guess is a heart and brain.
It is kind emotional when you are in there considering the amount of talent that has been. In there. My wife and I were in there, all by ourselves, and, had a chance to look around at all of it.
Chet was truly a gift from God.
RIP Mister Sandman.
Superb! Has it really been a decade, since Steve Wariner stepped before the cameras to host this gem -- featuring all our guitar heroes, who credit Chet Atkins as their greatest influence. That's Steve's signature model Gretsch "Country Gentleman."
Doyle Dykes! Late in life Chet was asked if there was anyone he'd "pay to see" and Mr. Guitar replied: "Oh, someone like Doyle Dykes." Deepest thanks to Gretsch Guitars for this 'welcome treat for eyes and ears.'
My favorite tribute was with Mark Knopfler “Neck and Neck” what a collaboration and tribute. Thank you.
oh yeah! I remember that one....awesome!
I thought they complemented each other wonderfully. Mark has a little more "bite" and Chet has the tunes and the melodies. They also bounced off each other verbally very well too. Two nice blokes.
My Dad went to the concert in Indy when Chet & Mark toured together. He had no idea who Mark is?! He said "That other guy wasn't bad but he's no Chet Atkins." I'm sure Mark would agree. I bought him "Neck & Neck" for Christmas that year.
He was a rare breed. Quite spectacular in a melodic and graceful way.
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A fantastic tribute to a true inspiration. Thanks to Chet, Gretsch, and all involved. Time to go play.
He was a big star on the grand Ole Opry when I was little. Daddy listened to it every Saturday night without fail.
Love Chet, love these players, love my Gretsch guitars.
As a lad I collected many imported LPs by Chet in the 1950's and 60's - they're still in my collection even though they're now on CD. One of my original guitar heroes.
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chet, you influenced and inspired not only americans but also every guitarist in the world
That was delightful. Thank you!
I’ve been a Chet Atkins fan since I was about 15 (60 years ago!). I wanted guitar lessons so my mother found someone to give me lessons. My instructor moved away several months later but left me a beautiful Gretch guitar to use as long as I wanted. His nephew came by a couple months later and told me he wanted it 😢 I never did become a musician anyway.
Pure magic, At 15, I heard a Mr Atkins song, bought a guitar, and have never stopped playing since....( still not that good) but great therapy and a target in life to aim for. R.I.P. Mon Ami, look forward to meeting you soon
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I've been glad and honoured just to have been here in the right time zone to catch him. I found Chet in 1960. What an artiste and innovator. Thanks Chet RIP!
Thank you for putting this together. I remember seeing Chet play at the Rialto theatre in Joliet, Illinois and still to this day his performance that day reminds me that Chet transcended the limits of being human, for during that show it was just pure music the came from him. What a special person he was, for the kindness of his soul was projected through his guitar.
Good grief! Three unbelievable players in one sitting...Just great you guys--so beautiful and perfectly played and natural...Jack
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IMHO, Chet is on the Mount Rushmore of guitarists. RIP, Chet.
J Parker Chet, Django, Segovia, Robert Johnson, Hendrix.
Chet will always be with us because of these guitarists ... such talent!
I've never enjoyed such a video as this for a long time. The guitar playing sessions were outstanding, loved every minute just made it look so easy.
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Friggin Awesome. Steve Wariner is one of my favorite artists. All of you are totally awesome guitarists. I play but not at this level lol but love it . 61 year old from Newfoundland Canada here. Awesome Awesome Video and Tribute. Thanks so mush for doing it and taking time to show us all your awesome awesome talents .All 4 of you are Amazing Artists.
I am so so glad I was able to see him in concert twice! I listened to a song of his that I thought sounded easy and simple because I liked fingerpicking but wooo, nope, it wasnt easy thats for sure!! He made it sound that way
I can't watch this enough...the one person on this earth that I wish I had known or just be around him for a minute...
I loved this. Thank God Chet's impeccable style is still being carried on by these cats
THANK YOU for this loving tribute to a man who truly deserves it. I especially enjoyed it when all three of you played together, keeping his legacy alive in both your words and music.
When I visited his bronze statue in Nashville, I actually cried just looking at it...
18:46 This is how music has evolved to become literally *all* of the genres we hear today. Everything from country and blues to jazz and rock and beyond. A great player takes bits here and there from all of their influences and creates something new that is their own.
Although I am from Canada, we love music to! I was raised in a family filled with music. I started learning Chet's songs when I was 12 and still keep learning them! He was amazing as well as the musicians on this video!
I had nooooo idea Duane Eddy was still alive. That was awesome to see him !
Gretch ...is the perfect brand of guitar for Mr. Chet Atkins... Love to learn some things from him everytime I listen to him... He was Immaculate in technique in my opinion... Miss him much... I first heard one of his albums at 12 years old... I've been playing many instruments since then... Four, in fact!!! Love all four of them.... Thanks man!!!
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I will never forget hearing for the 1st time I was truly amazed. His diversity was truly amazing. In 1972 he did the album Me and Jerry, jammed with Three Dog Night on a Kraft Music Hall Special, then played with The Boston Pops Orchestra. I even heard him play a guitar rendition of the gospel song Leaning on The Everlasting Arms on a tape with Carmen. How's that for diversity!!!!!!!
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It truly something beautiful, a man who played with his heart touched many peoples heart , including mine .
What a wonderful tribute. Thanks for creating and posting this!
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I learned to play from his album, "Play guitar with Chet Atkins"....Red Wing, Windy and Warm, 9 pound hammer , and one more. Love it.
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Sweetest documentary ever. Sweetest jam sessions. Thank you Gretsch!
Well worth the watch---always a treat to hear good words from men who knew him so well, the relating of how Chet affected them all their careers. These fellows have a good humility about them--like Chet was.
The more I see Doyle, the more I am impressed.....with his chracter. What a great guy he is.
Doyle is 100% total gentleman. Indeed, all of these fine men are. It was a privilege to capture their stories for this tribute.
My father in law started talking about Chet Atkins one day. I went home and ask my wife about it and she said when her dad was growing up he would play for hours. He doesn't play anymore he cut some of his fingers off but every once and a blue moon he will play. So Chet still lives on to this day because now I am hooked on his music.
Great tribute. Chet’s music will never dye.
As a teenager during the late 50’s /60’s I purchased two of his albums which I have down stairs by my turntable. I tried to learn how to play his way but I never got past the rhythm section. I still play on occasion but arthritis has limited me a lot. Thanks for this tribute I throughly appreciate it!
thank you for this video its so good to see that Chet inspired so many well done
This is a wonderful tribute to Chet Atkins! Chet Atkins is a huge influence on the way I play guitar and my main reason for doing music in the first place!
My hero, Smashing guitar players, love their playing. Think I`ll take my guitar out & bury it in the garden ! Many thanks for this great show. Ken. UK.
Take it out and practice instead. If you can't be as good as others, be as good as you can be. Besides it is all about us having a good time for the rest of our lives.
My first album - Teen Scene - Chet Atkins. I'm 70 now and it still inspires me.
I'm still a DJ. My main job was to introduce a new artist to its audience and an old artist to its new audience. I turn 82 in January 2020 and I have to acknowledge the DJ in me is still alive and well; even if I am the only one to enjoy the sound. It is a truth: old soldiers (or DJ) never die, they just fade away (out of the public eye, so-to-speak). Love is an inside job and I am still very much in love with the very sound of music from which direction it may come. In high school I played melody Sax; I could even make it "talk" and say "I want my Mama". It was after my radio career that I fell in love with the Nashville Sound (better late than never, right?).
There are talents that you are born with and you are very lucky to know them whenever they show up in your life. I even have learned to be a stand-up comic. Lots of bad things in life get turned around by viewing them from a comic viewpoint. If you want to live a long healthy life, there are certain rules you learn from animals. Problems in life should be treated like water off a ducks back. Just let it roll. Off preferably. Women on my mother's side of the family lived into their hundreds or near hundreds. Adalaide Cornelia Strait Straway lived to her 99th and her mother lived to 104. My mother was in her 90's I think because she was a modern woman holding her cigarette like the role models of her day. She had a contralto voice and sang with Johnny Johnston in Ithaca, NY and tried her darnedest to teach me to sing harmony with her. It never happened, unfortunately. She didn't pass on to her first-born her natural talent of song but I did inherit a stage presence when I had to. In my radio days I did a live remote at Rodeo Days of Salinas, CA which was a hit with my new radio station trying to be a viable presence in the CA market. We made ourselves known by putting live "people of mention" of the Salinas area politicians and hooked up to the outside "cell" where people were incarcerated for not wearing western wear on Rodeo Days where we had donation boxes mounted for the Heart Fund Drive and collected over $100K in donations just being in a high traffic area in front of the new jail. I never got a "big head" about it, because I saw it as a job and I loved talking to the citizenry. However, the then Police Chief walked deliberately out of my reach, proving what a coward he was, and how he shied away from speaking on the air. I thought he blew a very good platform to deliver a good message from my incarceration at his jail. He didn't perform extemporaneously about anything, let alone an on-the-spot interview on live radio. I chalked it up as his missed opportunity to connect with the people of his county and let them know who he was.
Now back to Chet: my missed opportunity. I have a video and his music to bring him back any time I want. Thanks, Chet, for sharing your genius in this way.
Janet Trim at 70 I hear ya, would love to hear your stories . Great post thank you
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"Aptitude" is the word I use to describe the apparent ease some people hit the ground running in a chosen pursuit. It's comparatively rare but when it happens you get a Chet Atkins. He had many gifts that counted. His quiet wit and unassuming persona. His choice of material to play and the tone he extracted from his guitar preceded his amazing dexterity and musicality that he brought to bear on his product. I was lucky to hear Chet as soon as I did being over here. C1959. I had started on the guitar and a friend loaned me two of his rare LP's. Other people who heard it said exactly what I said and it varied from polite appreciation to outrage that I could not do it! I had to calm down and just steal what I could. The tunes were a start. His aims were a good target too.
Now it turned out that I never did find my own exceptional aptitude in any particular domain. I am the Gemini that I am. An all rounder. Its good to settle for. I am quite good at a lot of different things but never exceptional. I lack the drive to complete things. Maybe I just can't!
Sometimes its just nice to stop wondering how its done and just sit back and enjoy it. I also listened to Jim Reeves in Norway (1964) here on UA-cam. It flowed off him. No apparent effort - he could just sing so silky it would tickle your mind in appreciation. Rendering a song. There have been others. I suppose Patsy Cline amongst the girls. Such a style. Or another great loss like Buddy Holly.
All the while Chet carried on steadily in the three-quarter light making a contribution - instictively knowing what people would like and how to get it done. He left us his legacy along with other phenomena like Django Reinhardt.
So you're 80 are yer! Congratulations! I am nearly 77 but that won't stop me chasing you around the park! Watch out Janet! XX
Some fine playing in that one, wow! Gotta look some of them fellas up! RIP Chet!
A best Gitarman, my best memories an moments with my father, earring his songs on radio and vinilo.
Very god Chet.
What a joy. Thank you Gretsch for such a great film and such a great tribute to Chet. He lives on.
Awesome bit of playing, by Doyle at the end of the vid...
Absolutely beautiful Tribute to a lovely man & guitar player ! RIP Chet .
When I was about 16 (!963) I heard, in an LP my uncle had, Chet playing ""Yankee Doodle Dixie" and I was totally blown away. I couldnt believe it.
He got me into guitar 60 years ago, thank you Chet
Please do more like this! I've lost count of how many times I've watched...
Always love Chets playing style and his plucky sound and his guitar playing that national anthem and the tune glory hallelujah even today bring tears because you can feel he was playing right out of his heart his soul through his instrument via his hands.
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Song at 17:50 is "It Don't Mean a Thing" , my brother figured it out, It bothered me since I saw it, AWESOME song!
This is easily the best and most heartfelt tribute to Chet I've ever seen. If anyone were to ask me who Chet was, or why he is so highly thought of, I would just show this to them and that would be enough. If you love Chet, even if you know most everything about him, this tribute will help you appreciate him even more than you thought you could. If you never heard of Chet, watching this will, at the very least, make you truly appreciate the man, if not turn you into a complete fan right away. I'm sure Chet would be humbly embarrassed by all the kind words, but he is unquestionably deserving of them. there will never be another Chet Atkins, but I'm so very glad we had the one we got...what a treasure!
Man what a great piece. Thanks for sharing, I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Love it Chet Atkins absolutely beautiful brilliant heaven where do you stop I own 1 LP of his it's supperb I wish I could play guitar like him hats off to the three guys playing his music brilliant
Steve Howe has mentioned several times what an influence
Chet was to him. So even the Great Prog Rock Maestro of
the guitar owes His success to Chet Atkins.
So for all you C&W fans out there I would recommend
listening to "The Clap" by Steve Howe from YES
if you want to hear some astonishing Travis Picking
Bluegrass/Progressive Rock Acoustic. If you have never heard it.
Yep. No Chet, no "The Clap". Hats off to Howe for writing such a brilliant piece though.
Steve Howe is fantastic.