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A publicity photo of Chet Atkins, a famed country music star credited with increasing country music's mainstream popularity.  He won more than a dozen Grammy awards over his lifetime, and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1995.

Copyright 1997 SonyMusic Entertainment Inc.

Chet Atkins

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