I grew up with Chet, what a gentleman, an unassuming genius. I grew up with his music, he's so humble and so utterly talented. Love ya Chet! Miss you my old friend.

Probably the last of the genuine country artists. He's the EVH of country, and super humble and nice.

Plus or minus, any interview with Mr. Atkins is a great interview.

Chet a guitar king, god rest his merry soul. Lovely man I sense I never met him but you can tell.

Call it what you want,,,, if it's on your turntable or car stereo,,,you sure as Hell like it,,,,,But when the dust settles ,,,,everyone loves Chet,,,

When I was learning guitar listening to Chet Atkins I developed a 4-fingers and thumb technique by accident. Atkins in a few instances actually uses his 4th finger.

The interviewer does an excellent job.

Enjoyed, I met him in person and he had signed my wrist when I was back staged with him!

Such a modest gentleman. But there's none that could touch his talent even tho he says the young kids with the hats on sell a load of songs and make a loada money that just depends on the audience and the songs lyrics but no one can touch or even rub shoulders with the great musicians and a lot of people forget about the great pedal steel players ,fiddlers and banjo and dobro players they all played there part to the gonra 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

Next part is labelled "Chet Atkins - Waiting for Susie B. (Live 1996)"

Thanks wonderfull!

If Mr. Atkins would see where music has gone nowadays :(

This is one time when the ignorance of an interviewer works out great. Good questions proposed in a way to let Mr. Atkins tell it like it is. Ya done good as we say.

Wonderful interview. Thanks. (ps. is there a part 2?)

What a cool cat.

@loriwolf1406

7 жыл бұрын

Joy Boswell I LOVE CHET ATKINS JERRY REED CALLED CHET ATKINS THE STRIKER OF STRINGS. MISTER GUITAR. THE GOD FATHER OF GUITARS. CHET ATKINS N JERRY REED ARE BEST FRIENDS N JUST LIKE BROTHERS. CHET ATKINS WAS JERRY REEDS MENTOR N IDOL. GET JERRY REED N CHET ATKINS BOTH PICKING THERE GUITARS TOGETHER NOW THATS MUSIC.

@fredriknerli9197

3 жыл бұрын

@@loriwolf1406 calm down

Who is this Ven Scale that Chet mention here in this interview 6:05 sec...any idea?

@adv1s588

5 жыл бұрын

vince gill

5:25 "there's alot of trash out there", oh boy if chet was alive now he'd know there's a hell load more trash now

That's ok. I have an audio only interview of Chet about the time when "Neck and Neck" was released in Australia but I will have to acquire a cassette player to rip it onto the computer. Also have one of Tommy E. when he was becoming a big name here. Trouble is, the cassette player. I don't have one anymore and they're getting like hen's teeth in the shops.

The Real Deal, indeed.

This really is a great interview. I cant help but imagine some of the garbage interviews that are conducted these days by some garbage millennial asking garbage, irrelevant, and plain stupid questions, and instead end up talking about themselves.

@andygriffith6687

7 жыл бұрын

You sound really crabby and miserable

@andrewfrancis7739

4 жыл бұрын

Andy Griffith lmao

The next segment of this interview can be found here: watch?v=8Aj5h_W2Xbg

Love Chet. Northerners please... Just say Country... Not Country and Western.

@Genetivetexan

9 жыл бұрын

Correct, although Chet has recorded many other types of main stream music. "Western" music included numbers such as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "Cool Water," and such classics recorded by great singers such as the Sons of the Pioneers. Today's "country" music is just a little upgrade of hillbilly stuff.

@SuperOlds88

9 жыл бұрын

StraightGate Jones Just my little opinion but today's "country" has nothing to do with hillbilly stuff.

@Genetivetexan

9 жыл бұрын

Lightnin Hopkins Sure it does, especially that preferred by so-called 'purists.' Although they incessantly call themselves, "artists" (more than any other - and more deserving - group), the NASAL TWANG dominates the 'music,' and many of them still brag about not being able to read music (sangin' through their noses by ear).

ちぇっとあときんす

I'm sorry, but thats all!

No country music after 1970.

@randallshelton2514

6 жыл бұрын

Lightnin Hopkins Come on Lightening...many great country songs after 70...I'd say after mid to late 80s is when it went to hell.

@SuperOlds88

5 ай бұрын

ok, you are right, but far and few between, maybe a half-dozen good ones, the rest were pop-singers. Interesting that Atkins takes credit for thumbpicking when in fact he once said that if it wasn't for Merle Travis he might of had to stare at the back end of a horse for the rest of his life. He gets in front of a national audience and takes credit for something he clearly didnt come up with.@@randallshelton2514