Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
Originally Posted By: etcjoe

I was going to mention Chet Atkins as he did record some straight jazz tunes.


I had the good luck and the pleasure of meeting Chet many years ago. We were doing our gig and I mentioned that I tried being in a jazz band but pop cover songs paid the mortgage.

Chet said that he always wanted to be a jazz player, but he knew which side of the bread was buttered.

We both agreed that we are happy doing what we are doing, but the challenges of jazz would be interesting.

Notes ♫


I had that almost exact conversation with Chet at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society meeting one year. He sat next to me for Martin Taylor's set one afternoon. While we were waiting for it to start, we talked about jazz and he talked about how he had wanted to do that almost exclusively but needed to make a living!! His skills as a player are well known and his skills as a producer are too. He was very talented in many ways and a very nice person to meet as well!

My wife asked if I had seen the dog bowl. I told her I didn't even know he could.