He used the restroom in the school to practice, because it gave better acoustics. Stories have been told about the very young Chet, who, when a friend or relative would come to visit and play guitar, would crowd in and put his ear so close to the instrument that it became difficult for the visitor to play.Ītkins became an accomplished guitarist while he was in high school.
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He returned in the 1990s to play a series of charity concerts to save the school from demolition. While living in Fortson, he attended the historic Mountain Hill School. On those nights, he played his guitar until he fell asleep holding it, a habit which lasted his whole life. Because of his illness, he was forced to sleep in a straight-back chair to breathe comfortably.
He stated in his 1974 autobiography, “We were so poor and everybody around us was so poor that it was the forties before anyone even knew there had been a depression.”įorced to relocate to Fortson, Georgia, outside of Columbus, to live with his father because of a critical asthma condition, Atkins was a sensitive youth who made music his obsession. He started out on the ukulele, later moving on to the fiddle, but traded his brother Lowell an old pistol and some chores for a guitar when he was nine. He was the youngest of three boys and a girl. His parents divorced when he was six, after which he was raised by his mother. Even though by many considered instrumental in bringing Country music mainstream with the Nashville Sound, Chet’s guitar virtuosity (he also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele) was recognized with an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which makes him eligible in this website’s line-up. J– Chester Burton “Chet” Atkins was born on June 20th 1924 in Luttrell, Tennessee, near Clinch Mountain.
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