Local guitar legend Luke Brandon dies
Knoxville News Sentinel - May 19, 2012
Joining him at that session was a young man named Chet Atkins, who was expected to play fiddle, but instead, showed up with a guitar. After serving in the Army during World War II, Mr. Brandon spent a few years playing guitar in small clubs in Texas
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Loudon and Leo: Acoustic Lives
The Sacramento Press - May 19, 2012
Each has collaborated with an impressive array of other musicians and performers, including Chet Atkins, Joe Pass, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris and Rickie Lee Jones. Kottke has written an orchestral concerto. Wainwright had a recurring role
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Classic guitar interview: Pete Townshend, 1990
MusicRadar.com - May 19, 2012
"I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed and that's why I think it's so unique. I did start copying Chet Atkins
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WOSTER: When a 'moo' came with the rock 'n' roll
Daily Republic - May 19, 2012
I did see them once, in Reliance. Percy, their lead player, had the first red, Chet Atkins-model Gretsch guitar I'd ever seen up close. Percy and that guitar looked great. They would have looked great in the Vivian Dance Hall, too.
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Peter Cooper On Music: Cortelia Clark's legend lives on
The Tennessean - May 19, 2012
Larry McCormack// Mike Weesner has the guitars and Grammy that belonged to Cortelia Clark, the first Nashville folk artist to win a Grammy. Wees ner helped Clark get a recording contract on Chet Atkins' label.
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Happy Frat Tuesday, er, Fat Tuesday
Tallahassee Democrat (blog) - May 19, 2012
Any city that tolerates drive-through daiquiri shops and thinks the Atkins diet must have something to do with listening to music by Chet Atkins, well, you almost have to admire the hedonistic and gluttonous attitude. It's a great place — even seven
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Kent City wrestling leads Grand Rapids area schools with three advancing ...
MLive.com - May 19, 2012
Kent City coach Chad Kik was particularly pleased with Wolter, depsite the loss in the third-place match to Chet Atkins (Holton). "He beat a couple of kids that he lost to last year," Kik said. "He didn't make it out of a tough district last year,
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Grammy-winning guitarist Klugh to play Duncan
Palm Beach Post - May 19, 2012
Klugh said his setlist will encompass a good stretch of his career, which reaches back to when he began working with artists like Chet Atkins, Yusef Lateef and George Benson as a teenager. "I think we're pretty much up to snuff on what we're doing," he
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Opry stars' portraits deck Ace's brick walls
The Tennessean - May 19, 2012
Josh Arntz/The Herald Chet Atkins: Jim McGuire's 1976 still-frame of Chet Atkins adorns an Ace Diner wall. In his photo description, McGuire explains Atkins was a trailblazer, known as “Mister Guitar,” who is widely credited for the creation of the
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Master harp guitarist comes to Corban for concert Friday
Statesman Journal - May 19, 2012
harp guitarist: he plays a 20-string harp guitar with six fretted strings, six unfretted strings and eight treble strings, which reportedly parallels the sound range of a piano. His touring résumé includes the New Christy Minstrels, Chet Atkins,
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