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Chet Atkins is a Classical and Country act. Their catalogue also touches Jazz. Their sound grew out of The Carter Family, Suzy Bogguss, Steve Goodman, John D. Loudermilk and Stefan Grossman. Those roots explain a lot about how Chet Atkins arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Tommy Emmanuel, Les Paul, Glen Campbell, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Roger Miller, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Hank Snow, Steve Wariner, The Louvin Brothers, Lenny Breau and Mark O'Connor, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 60 connections around Chet Atkins, reaching back through The Carter Family and forward to Hank Snow. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Chet Atkins connections
Chet Atkins grew out of The Carter Family, Suzy Bogguss, Steve Goodman and John D. Loudermilk, shares an orbit with Tommy Emmanuel, Les Paul, Glen Campbell and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, went on to shape Hank Snow, Steve Wariner, The Louvin Brothers and Lenny Breau. 60 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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