Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Per Ole Hagen/Getty Images Famed acoustic guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel has been a longtime Chet Atkins fan – ever since ...

(SRO) "Mr. Guitar," the first single from the upcoming multi-artist album We Still Can't Say Goodbye - A Musicians' Tribute to Chet Atkins, has been released today (Friday, March 15) to all streaming ...

Few people have left a larger mark on the face of American music in general and country music in particular than Chet Atkins. As the most-recorded instrumentalist in history, countless people have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tommy Emmanuel was just 11 when his father died. In the aftermath, he found solace in the music of Chet Atkins, a guitar hero who ...

We Still Can’t Say Good Bye: A Musicians’ Tribute to Chet Atkins will hit shelves and streaming services on April 19. Today, fans get their first taste of the tribute record. Listen to “Mr. Guitar” by ...

(SRO) In honor of what would have been Chet Atkins' 100th birthday today (June 20), Grammy Award winner Tommy Emmanuel has released a newly shot video of "Mr. Guitar (Live)." It's a song that Tommy ...

Tommy Emmanuel was just 11 when his father died. In the aftermath, he found solace in the music of Chet Atkins, a guitar hero who would become, in effect, a surrogate father. “My father had just ...

Tommy Emmanuel began his musical career at age 6, playing guitar in his family's band as they busked around the Australian bush more than six decades ago. An invitation from guitar legend Chet Atkins ...

Grammy-winning Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel plays the Ulster Hall Belfast on 1 of November and Vicar Street, Dublin on ...

Chet Atkins, world famous for his country music and guitar excellence, designed a special suffix for guitarists he found superlative. He named the award CGP for certified guitar player. He doled it ...

In 1997 Australian-born guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel recorded an album with Chet Atkins titled "The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World." Atkins, who was hospitalized with a brain tumor on the ...