Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Chet's Passion for Playing Never Dimmed.

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A tune called Young Thing which he wrote for his friend Bill Young when Mr young was in the hospital dying of ALS.


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6 comments :

  1. Finished the 24 illustrations for my book-they were critiqued the other day so- had time to listen to the Chet Atkins videos--love his execution of the classical guitar techniques...
    Took classical guitar for 3 semesters -3 years ago- loved it--if I had had an opportunity to play w/ a small group - I probably would have continued..
    Having been classically trained for singing - the ability to carry my own accompaniment (pianos are hard to carry :-)-made the guitar appealing..

    Have a grand and peace-filled Christmas - my friend...
    Carol-CS

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  2. Kid, you have an ear for great music. Thank you for sharing it.

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  3. Thank you Opus, it is a pleasure to do

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  4. Carol-CS, I'm glad you enjoy it as well. One thing about guitar is you have to have a lot of time to practice. Working a day job, then all the stuff at home leaves me not enough time.
    Chet wrote a book that I haven't read but in it there is a line near the end I think where he tells of falling asleep every night in a chair with the guitar on his lap. That's a lot of practice.

    And he recorded most of his stuff at home in his basement studio in the morning they say.
    There's a guy on youtube with an ID of daffydoug that I think has uploaded just about everything Chet ever recorded. Here is the list if I just plug in daffydoug

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  5. Hi Kid, you always find such lovely guitar music.
    Thanks for making the Holiday's Bright!
    Merry Christmas to you and yours!
    God Bless.

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  6. Thank You Bunni. Same to you.

    Merry Christmas ! Have a great 2011 and an even greater 2013 :)

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