Exploring comments made by Dire Straits musician Mark Knopfler about his collaborative album with Chet Atkins which he ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Beth Gwinn/Redferns via Getty Images Not only is Brothers in Arms widely considered to be ...

Influential guitarist Chet Atkins, who helped modernize country music in the 1960s, paving the way for the massive commercial force that it is today, died Saturday in Nashville. He was 77. In 1973 and ...

One of country music’s most influential figures, Chet Atkins was a key player in inventing the “Nashville Sound,” a style of country that was steeped in pop and made the genre more appealing to the ...

A red Baldwin Burns Double Six solid electric 12-string guitar that was lent to Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler in the mid-’70s – and not returned for over five decades – is set to fetch more than $40,000 ...