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The 10 pages that link to Chet Atkins, each with the reason it gives.

• Country musicRelated: His production choices helped steer country toward smoother, pop-oriented arrangements.

• Nashville soundRelated: As an RCA producer, he helped replace honky-tonk arrangements with restrained, pop-oriented recordings.

• Country popRelated: His production work brought country recordings closer to pop conventions.

• RCA RecordsRelated: As an RCA producer and executive, Atkins shaped the label’s country recordings.

• Fingerstyle guitarRelated: His polished arrangements brought intricate fingerpicking to a broad popular audience.

• Waylon JenningsRelated: Atkins’s Nashville production system was the institutional approach Jennings sought to escape.

• The Everly BrothersRelated: He produced several early Everly Brothers recordings and helped shape their polished sound.

• Charley PrideRelated: Atkins signed Pride to RCA and helped guide his early recordings.

• Patti PageRelated: Atkins played on and helped shape Page’s Nashville-recorded hits.