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Atkins, Chet

LC control no.n 81126809
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationML419.A83 Biography
Personal name headingAtkins, Chet
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Variant(s)Atkins, Chester Burton
See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Country All Stars
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Corporate body: Guitar Pickers (Musical group)
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1924-06-20
Death date2001-06-30
Place of birthLuttrell (Tenn.)
Place of deathNashville (Tenn.)
Profession or occupationCountry musicians Guitarists Sound recording executives and producers
Found inHum and strum with Chet Atkins. [Phonodisc] 1959.
New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Atkins, Chet (Chester Burton); b. June 20, 1924, nr. Luttrell, TN; country-music guitarist and recording company executive)
New York Times, July 2, 2001 (Chet Atkins, 77, guitarist, record producer; d. June 30, 2001, Nashville)
LCCN 91-752306: Country All Stars. Jazz from the hills, p1989: label (Country All Stars) insert (as RCA Victor recording artist, record producer, and executive, Chet Atkins assembled several instrumental recording groups; the first was created in 1952 with the Country All Stars; built around a nucleus of Chet, Homer, and Jethro and included a number of other musicians depending on who was available)
Hillbilly. Volume one, 1948-1950, 2005: container (Chet Atkins and his Guitar Pickers)