product id: 44785
Composer/Artist: Atkins, Chet
Product type: Biography
Media: Book
Pages: 182
Author: Atkins, Chet;Cochran, Michael
Language: English
Expected shipping time: 14 days
Price: 32.95 euro This is the most comprehensive and enlightening book on Chet Atkins ever published. Chet tells it in his own words: his childhood, playing influences, early struggles to find work, insights into the guitars he used and endoresed along the way.
Many of the full-colour photographs of Chet and his guitars have not been published untill now. Photographer Wolf Hoffman expertly captured some of the famous guitars played by Chet including his first Sears & Roebuck Silvertone, custom-made D'Angelicos, hte Gretsches, and the prototype models of the current Gibson Country Gentleman guitars. Over 60 guitars from Chet's private collection are shown in Chet's home and his office on Muisc Row. Chet speaks about each of these instruments, including the gibson L-10 which his brother Jim gave him, telling the story of his career trhough his guitars.
More than just a pictorial review of Chet Atckins's guitars throughout the years, as you turn through these pages you are treated to a fascinating look inside the mind of this great guitar player. This books belongs on the shelf or coffee table of guitar lovers and Chet Atkins fans everywhere. |
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