The Guitar of Chet Atkins
from Grossman's Guitar Workshop
This DVD offers you something unique and powerful--a guitar lesson taught by CGP (Certified Guitar Player) Chet Atkins. Addressing intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists, Chet performs and describes in detail, phrase by phrase, the playing of nine of his classic arrangements. Split-screen techniques allow you to carefully study both his left and right hand movements. Your teacher for this lesson is one of the foremost fingerstyle guitar masters in the history of the guitar. Have fun! 84 minute DVD. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD, or may be downloaded from guitarvideos.com.
Seasons in Concert
by Paul Marcos
from Windham Hill Records
Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed In Concert at the Bottom Line June 22, 1992
from Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed in concert together. What a treat!! These two masters of the guitar complemented each other so well that it is hard to imagine one without the other! Chet Atkins, the subdued quiet picker, thrilled at performing the fast, frantic instrumental written by his energetic alter ego, Jerry Reed. Their careers intertwined for most of forty years, resulting in a number of award-winning collaborations. Their 1992 Grammy Award winning CD "Sneakin' Around" led to several show dates together, including this performance at the Bottom Line. The instrumentals that were shared by these two guitar giants will be played and studied as long as there are guitarists on this planet. This 84-minute video features 18 selections including Copper Kettle, Waltz for the Lonely, Summertime, and more.
Chet Atkins Rare Performances 1976-1995
from Grossman's Guitar Workshop
For more than 40 years, the name of Chet Atkins has been associated with the finest Nashville-based fingerstyle guitar sounds. Even those records he did not play on showed his influence. Yet his own artistic growth never ceased, as is evident in this second volume of Vestapol's chronological documentation of Chet's career. We see this gentle genius exploring the music of Bob Dylan (Don't Think Twice It's All Right), marching band composer John Phillip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever), pop standards (Lover Come Back) and progressive funk (Knuckle Buster). Chet's tonal palette draws varied colors from electric guitars, nylon-strung classics, and even a resophonic guitar. Foremost in this collection are his traditional strengths as a tasteful soloist, but we also see him swap licks with the fiery Jerry Reed and Larry Carlton. The overall impression made by these performances is one of a master quietly demonstrating his continued primacy in his field and doing so with a calm assurance unabated by needless grandstanding. The booklet is not included, but may be downloaded from guitarvideos.com. 71 minutes.
Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions: Chet Licks
from Option Technologies
Chet Atkins - A Life in Music
from Mpi Home Video
As a young man legendary guitarist and music producer Chet Atkins found a way out of poverty when he picked up his first guitar and began to play. With exceptional talent and determination Atkins eventually landed in Nashville where he was considered a pioneering force behind what would become known as The Nashville Sound. Though a performer in his own right it was Atkins ear for music and hit songs that made him a highly sought-after producer. He became instrumental in crafting the careers of such stars as Elvis Presley Eddy Arnold The Everly Brothers Waylon Jennings and Charley Pride.Revered by guitarists worldwide and loved by fans Atkins was a guitar virtuoso whose musical influences spread beyond country and embraced pop and jazz. He leaves behind a body of work that will be remembered for its distinct flavor and Atkins ability to make it all look so easy.Featured in this documentary:Eddy Arnold Randy Bachman (The Guess Who) Bobby Bare George Benson Suzy Bogguss Bill Carlisle (The Carlisles) The Carter Family June Carter Cash Tommy Emmanuel Don Everly (The Everly Brothers) John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) Peter Frampton Vince Gill Amy Grant Steve Howe (Yes) Waylon Jennings Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) Willie Nelson Dolly Parton Les Paul Charley PrideFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSIC DVD/CONCERTS UPC: 030306774695 Manufacturer No: DVD7746
Chet Atkins Rare Performances 1955-1975
from Grossman's Guitar Workshop
The much traveled Mr. Guitar is seen playing in this video collection everywhere from Nashville to Norway. His signature Gretsch Tennesseean guitar, on which Chet made it exquisitely effective use of its Bigsby vibrato bar, is heard in all its sweet, reverb-laden glory on many of these clips. But Chet, whose versatility embraces all styles of guitar, is also seen playing a classical guitar and a Martin dreadnaught. No matter what he plays, the produced becomes a distinct auditory fingerprint of the man known in Nashville as C. G. P. (Certified Guitar Player). The relaxed mastery evident in this video explains why Chet, along with such diverse geniuses as Thelonius Monk and Bill Monroe, was honored in 1993 with a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy "For this peerless fingerstyle guitar technique, his extensive creative legacy documented on more than one hundred albums, and his influential work on both sides of the recording console as a primary architect of the Nashville sound." The booklet for the DVD featuring biographical material, rare photographs and details on the tunes is not included, but can be accessed and downloaded from guitarvideos.com. Running time: 58 minutes.
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