Chet Atkins

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most read more

There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may read more

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.