Chet Atkins Rare Performances 19551975 (2001)

The much traveled Mr Guitar is seen playing in this video collection everywhere from Nashville to Norway His signature Gretsch Tennesseean guitar on which Chet made it exquisitely effective use of its Bigsby vibrato bar is heard in all its sweet reverbladen glory on many of these clips But Chet whose versatility embraces all styles of guitar is also seen playing a classical guitar and a Martin dreadnaught No matter what he plays the produced becomes a distinct auditory fingerprint of the man known in Nashville as C G P Certified Guitar Player The relaxed mastery evident in this video explains why Chet along with such diverse geniuses as Thelonius Monk and Bill Monroe was honored in 1993 with a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy For this peerless fingerstyle guitar technique his extensive creative legacy documented on more than one hundred albums and his influential work on both sides of the recording console as a primary architect of the Nashville sound