Words by and aboutChet Atkins "The One and Only"

A Eulogy for Chet Atkins

As delivered by Garrison Keillor at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee

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July 3, 2001

"I went up home to east Tennessee the other day. I was invited, went and saw a dozen folks that I hadn't seen in 45 or 50 years. Every damn one of them said, 'I'll bet you don't know who I am,' etc. I admitted I didn't and they seemed disappointed. I left there when I had just turned 11. I received an award for just growing up there, I suppose, and I couldn't think of one nice thing to say. Those were some of the worst years of the old man's life, don't you know. But even the bad ones are good now that I think about it.

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A Prairie Home Companion (rebroadcast  from June 4, 1994), Featuring; The Everly Brothers, Chet Atkins plays "Mystery Train, Vince Gill, Mary Chapin Carpenter and others. Chet Atkins enters 10 minutes into the show.

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