Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins is one of my personal favorite guitar players, and in my opinion, one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century. He popularized the unique Travis picking style, produced countless records in Nashville, and created some of the most unique guitar music in the modern era. The way Atkins is able to accompany himself and create a “full band” feel with a single instrument is so unlike most music today it is quite inspirational to listen to. Chet Atkins started his professional

S18 About Page Chet Atkins The Greats never die. That’s the case with Chet Atkins. One of the most accomplished guitarist in country music. Although June 30th 2001 marked the passing of Chester Burton Atkins his style is recognizable even to this day. His influence has not faded and the country music world will always hail him as one of the most prodigious contributors to their art. As long as Chet still has fans and his style of music is played and recognized by so many, means his legacy lives

Particularly, Snow’s “melodic country vocals,” unique diction and a distinctive guitar playing have had an impact that altered perceptions of the sound of country music and held meaning historically. I’m Movin’ On is a piece of music that had specific meaning during the time of the Korean War. During the war the song “aired on the Armed Services Radio Network.” The song was then reworded by a soldier when it was “thought that the song was sung by black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment,

When country music began in America, there were no professional musicians. The typical musician sang only to entertain himself, his family or at local events. There is evidence of square dance-like events as far back as the 1830s (with origins in European country dancing). At first, most country music was either sung by itself or played on a lone fiddle or banjo. A good fiddler was a very popular person and was often asked to perform at events ranging from weddings to cattle drives. There was no

Within a week of my birth, my parents sent me to a myopically conservative ship community to prevent exposure of liberalism to me. Unfortunately, I felt nothing but alienation due to my inability to relate with my peers, but relocation was unattainable. My deep desperation to escape my world of torture caused the onset of night-terrors. Because of the potential violent qualities of night-terrors, I decided to keep a journal to provide future references and to monitor my psychological changes. At

The Copper Gauntlet by Casandra Clare and Holly Black picks up where The Iron Trial left off. Almost-13-year-old Callum Hunt, along with his Chaos-ridden pet wolf, Havoc, is back home from his first year At the Magisterium (a school for mages) for summer vacation. But Callum's Dad is acting weirdly, and Callum thinks that his father knows what Call had just found out: that he apparently has the soul of Constantine Madden (the evil Enemy of Death). When Havoc goes missing Call searches for him. Discovering

The story begins with a prologue telling about the people who built Ember, and what happened before the present day. The builders were the ones who built the city of Ember, where most of the story’s beginning occurs. Since the city was built underground, resources wouldn’t last forever, so the builders created a chest that would open after a set amount of time. The chest was to be passed down from mayor to mayor, however one mayor was deathly sick and thought the chest contained something that could

They climbed the hill next to them and delivered the papers. They were going to Chets house to say hi, and they saw the blue car had crashed into a ditch there was no one in the car. They went down Chets driveway and saw that Chet was sad; the man had stolen Chets yellow car. Chet and the Hardy Boys went around town asking if anyone say a yellow car go bye. Their friend Callie who had a cake in her hand said Chets yellow car was going so fast that it scared her and she dropped the cake. The Hardy

Big Boys The Big Boys Newspaper was historically accurate in that the newspapers date was 1929 and all the facts were correct. The newspaper felt more professional than most of the other newspapers I reviewed and it felt like it was something that the New York Times might release. It was easy to follow their train of thought and understand. The only issue I have with their newspaper is their font seemed to change a couple of times. They educated me on the topics of the Teapot Dome Scandal and the

Shawn Johnson is famous for her outstanding performance in the Olympic gymnastics games. Twenty-four year old gymnasts Shawn Johnson was born on January 19, 1992 in Des Moines, Iowa. Shawn Johnson attended the Olympics at age 16 and won a gold medal in the balance beam event for the U.S.A. Shawn Johnson participated on the show Dancing with the Stars with her partner Mark Ballas. Shawn Johnson is an influential person because she was born in Iowa, went to the Olympics in 2008, and won a gold medal