Topic: Chet Atkins

AP News | 2010-01-27 11:00:51
Country star Steve Wariner channels Chet Atkins for his 11th Grammy nomination

Few people knew Chet Atkins like Steve Wariner. The country music mainstay and the legendary producer were friends and collaborators for more than 25 years before Atkins died in 2001. So when Wariner calls his Grammy-nominated album "Steve Wariner, c.g.p., My Tribute to Chet Atkins" a ...

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Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News | 2009-06-17 01:10:45

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pioneering guitarist Bob Bogle, whose rock-instrumental band the Ventures scored a pair of hits in the 1960s with "Walk, Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O," has died, the group said on Tuesday. He was 75. Bogle died on Sunday of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at a hospital after falling ill at his home in Vancouver, Washington, according to ...

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AP News | 2008-09-02 23:39:19
Singer-actor Jerry Reed dies of complications from emphysema at the age of 71

Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71. His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday. "He's one ...

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