Chet atkins biography book

Chet Atkins, one of the founders of the country music movement and the developer of the finger-pickin' style of guitar playing, was born to play music--country music.

Chet atkins biography book

This book is his story, and with the blunt honesty and familiar modesty all his followers have come to expect of him, he lets everyone in on his life. Born in an East Tennessee follow, the son of a southern-style gospel singer, Chet was playing music, on a ukulele, guitar, or fiddle, almost before he was old enough to talk.

And we learn, his life was not easy. Afflicted by a severe case of asthma and used as a foil by his divorced parents, Chet was increasingly thrown back on his own devices, on one occasion spending a year and a half in Georgia in virtual isolation.

The effect all this had on the growing boy is related by Chet in detail, so that one sees the genesis and growth of what was to be recognized as his genius. First, he became a guitar virtuoso--there was not much else he could do--and