Words by Mike Leonard
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There’s probably one anecdote everyone knows about Chet Atkins. Chet, guitar genius and lauded RCA producer and A&R man of the 1960s, was fond of cheerily confronting journalists with “Aren’t you going to ask me about The Nashville Sound?” At which point Chet would jingle some coins in his hand over the microphone. “It’s the sound of money.”