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""Biographer Ribowsky (Hank) explores in this comprehensive account the life and legacy of country music legend Chet Atkins, who wrote, produced, and played on more than 1,000 songs, including 113 under his own name. . . . Ribowsky highlights Atkins's distinctive finger-picking technique . . . and such career highlights as helping produce Elvis Presley's early hit 'Heartbreak Hotel.' Other milestones include signing some of the 'biggest names to ever hit country music, ' including Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, and shaping the so-called 'Nashville sound, ' which infused country with poppy tempos and helped revive the genre in the mid-1950s. Ribowsky's studious research and unapologetically awestruck tone . . . make this a worthy ode to an important figure in American pop culture. Country music fans will be engrossed."" --Publishers Weekly

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Mark Ribowsky is the author of over thirty books, including music biographies of the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Lynyrd Skynyrd, James Taylor, Little Richard, Isaac Hayes, Bill Withers, the Everly Brothers, and Hank Williams. The much-praised Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams was acclaimed by Library Journal as ""the greatest biography yet"" of the troubled king of country.

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