Chet Atkins
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Oct 28, 2026
Alan TudykHOST
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Chet Atkins.
Alan TudykHOST
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Alan TudykHOST
Chet Atkins.
Alan TudykHOST
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Alan TudykHOST
Dolly Parton did a duo with Chet Atkins called Do I Ever Cross Your Mind? And there's a great recording of the two of them.
Alan TudykHOST
And you can hear her just sort of talking back and forth.
Alan TudykHOST
And at the end, she laughs and says, I love you.
Gary HinesGUEST
Kind of all of the above, Sean.
Gary HinesGUEST
And part one of my answer to you, I take a page out of the book of the late great country artist Chet Atkins.
Gary HinesGUEST
And I saw an interview of his.
Gary HinesGUEST
He was a great songwriter and he was frequently asked how he wrote such great songs.
Mark DavisHOST
Floyd Kramer born this date, 1933.
Mark DavisHOST
Soundtrack of my earliest musical memories because my parents loved Floyd Kramer, Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph.
Mark DavisHOST
The Nashville Instrumentalists.
Mark DavisHOST
So let the great Floyd Kramer take us out.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
George Harrison didn't play blues solos until much later, blue bending solos.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
He played mostly in the image of his heroes, Carl Perkins and Chet Atkins, who played melody all the time.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze is another melodic guitar player, primarily.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
And there's something to be said of it, really in the years by Steely Dan.
Doug GillardGUEST
Like my folks were more into that sort of things.
Doug GillardGUEST
They had Buck Owens albums and Chet Atkins albums.
Doug GillardGUEST
I forgot.
Doug GillardGUEST
I really should not give that stuff short shrift because I listened to that a lot, too.
Doug GillardGUEST
No, it's I mean, my dad had about five Chet Atkins album.
Matty CHOST
This stuff was foundational for me growing up.
Matty CHOST
My both my sets of grandparents listened to like Tom T.
RhettHOST
John grew up playing rock music, listening to rock music.
RhettHOST
And as we know, Mark Knopfler would love Chet Atkins and love country music.
RhettHOST
So these guys are coming out each other, you know? Yeah.
RhettHOST
From different angles.
Peter GuralnikGUEST
It's not modal, but it's not particularly melodic, and it's a very powerful blues.
Peter GuralnikGUEST
Elvis takes a much more, there's almost a country flavor, particularly to the guitar, which is very much Chet Atkins' influence, even though, while it retains the rhythmic thing, and the mood of the song is completely different.
Peter GuralnikGUEST
It's a kind of sense of joyful release, of spontaneity.
Peter GuralnikGUEST
But in no way is it intended to replace, is it intended by Elvis to replace the original It's really intended, it stands as a tribute to the original, and it stands as an interpretation of the original, as an extension of it.
Rob KelleherGUEST
of Victim of Changes with Ronnie, not Ronnie
Steve WrightHOST
Atkins, I was going to say Chet Atkins.
Steve WrightHOST
Dave Atkins or something like that was the original, Dan Atkins or something was the original singer.
Steve WrightHOST
If he's not
Danny MarksGUEST
I remember exactly where we were when I did.
Danny MarksGUEST
I played Walk, Don't Run like Chet Atkins style.
Danny MarksGUEST
And that was pretty good.
Danny MarksGUEST
And it was, oh, you know, mom could praise me to the sky.
Mark DavisHOST
And it was once again in that playlist of when I just got the immersion of a lifetime.
Mark DavisHOST
into, into country music because I mean, my parents were loved Willie Nelson and Chet Atkins and, and, and, you know, the instrumentalist, your boots Randolph and Floyd Kramer and et cetera, et cetera.
Mark DavisHOST
But then when I went to West Virginia to start a radio career, uh, and worked for a country station, it was all Willie and George Jones and all that, of course.
Mark DavisHOST
But, uh, but, but Ronnie Millsap and Crystal Gale and Ann Murray and, uh, And Earl Thomas Conley and all those great records of the late 70s, early 80s.
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