RCA Victor Studio B marks the birthplace of the “Nashville Sound.” It’s home to 1,000 hits by country music greats like Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins and many others. The Victor Talking ...
On this day (February 12) in 1911, Stephen H. Sholes was born in Washington, D.C. He started working for the Victor Talking Machine Company, which would later become RCA Records, as a messenger boy as ...
Chet Atkins was, first and foremost, a guitar player. He became a producer and a record executive, but he started as a musician and continued learning his craft until he passed away in 2001. Often ...
Influential guitarist Chet Atkins, who helped modernize country music in the 1960s, paving the way for the massive commercial force that it is today, died Saturday in Nashville. He was 77. In 1973 and ...