Chet Atkins was the greatest travis picker, and, when early rock ’n’ rolle rs wanted to fuse country and blues, they found his sign ature guitar was the perfect weap on. Rockabilly pioneers Duan e Eddie and Eddie Cochran used them, inspiring George Harr ison to try the Country Gent leman variant. The Filte r’trons had more twang than PAFs but more weight than Fender’s pickups, and the B igsby tremolo allowed pseu do-pedal steel effects. Rock abilly cats like Brian Setzer still can’t get enough.