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Chords for Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins - Neck and neck-06 - Yakety axe.
#CHET ATKINS YAKETY AXE TAB PROFESSIONAL#
We have an official Yakety Axe tab made by UG professional guitarists.Check out the tab. He died of the disease in 2001.Play along with guitar, ukulele, or piano with interactive chords and diagrams. In 1993, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, placing him among such musical greats as Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Leonard Bernstein, and Paul McCartney, and in 1997, he won his fifteenth Grammy, for his 1996 recording of “Jam Man.”Ītkins was also diagnosed with brain cancer in 1997. Frequent collaborations with younger players, such as British rock guitarist Mark Knopfler, reflected Atkins’s desire to remain contemporary.įrom 1967 to 1988, Atkins won the Country Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year honor eleven times. Atkins relinquished his RCA executive role in 1982 and left RCA to record for Columbia the following year. As he hired additional producers at RCA, he cut back his own production work to focus on recording and made albums with other fine guitarists: Hank Snow, Jerry Reed, Merle Travis, and Les Paul. That same year, Atkins enjoyed his own biggest hit single with “Yakety Axe,” an adaptation of Nashville studio musician Boots Randolph’s hit “Yakety Sax.”Ītkins produced a constant stream of solo RCA albums during these years as well. In 1965, Atkins took a major step forward by signing Charley Pride, who was Black, to RCA. Among the many acts he produced successfully were Eddy Arnold, Skeeter Davis, Bobby Bare, and Floyd Cramer. Atkins transformed hard-country RCA artists Jim Reeves and Don Gibson by producing hits for both that crossed over into the pop market. Intent on increasing sales by making country records appeal to pop and country audiences, he-along with Owen Bradley at Decca, Don Law at Columbia, and Ken Nelson at Capitol-began to produce singers backed by neutral rhythm sections and replace steel guitars and fiddles with vocal choruses, a style immortalized as the Nashville Sound. Only after rock & roll set back country record sales did Atkins’s production skills come into their own. Atkins eventually worked his way up to the role of RCA vice president, responsible for Nashville operations. Initially, Atkins organized sessions, and if Sholes, who was based in New York, couldn’t come to Nashville, Atkins produced the records himself, but in 1955, Sholes put Atkins in charge of RCA’s Nashville studios, first at a facility shared with the Methodist Radio, Television, and Film Commission and later at an RCA-controlled studio that would become known as RCA Studio B. Other officials there felt Atkins’s style was too polished for “hillbilly” music and eventually fired him, but meanwhile, Siman tried to get record companies interested in Atkins.Ītkins’s relationship with RCA Victor’s Sholes evolved throughout the 1950s into that of trusted protégé. Moving on to KWTO in Springfield, Missouri, Atkins received his nickname, “Chet,” from station official Si Siman. There, Atkins made his first solo recording, “Guitar Blues,” for the local record label Bullet.
He briefly joined WLW in Cincinnati in 1945, then worked with Johnnie & Jack in Raleigh, North Carolina, in early 1946, before moving to Chicago, where Red Foley, having left the WLS National Barn Dance to host the Grand Ole Opry’s NBC segment, The Prince Albert Show, hired Atkins and took him to Nashville. WNOX executive Lowell Blanchard heard Atkins’s guitar playing and began featuring him on the station’s popular weekday multi-artist country show, Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, and Atkins broadened his repertoire though listening sessions in the station’s music library. Travis’s thumb-and-finger picking style fascinated Atkins, who created his own thumb-and-two-finger variation.Īfter attending high school in Georgia, Atkins landed a job at WNOX in Knoxville, fiddling for the team of singer Bill Carlisle and comic Archie Campbell. After the Atkinses divorced, Ida remarried, in 1932, and Chester began to learn guitar and fiddle, often playing with his brother and sister and their stepfather, Willie Strevel.Ī 1936 asthma attack forced Atkins to relocate to the improved climate at his father’s Georgia farm, where one night in the late 1930s he first heard Merle Travis playing guitar on WLW in Cincinnati. His father, James Atkins, was an itinerant music teacher who had previously been married, and his mother, Ida Atkins, sang and played piano. Radio’s Immense InfluenceĬhester Burton Atkins grew up in the hills near the tiny, remote East Tennessee town of Luttrell. His immense influence on country, rock, and jazz musicians has lasted more than half a century, and many of the hit records he produced during his days at RCA are now classics. No other country instrumentalist has achieved the same renown and respect as Chet Atkins.
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