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    • Jun 20, 1924
    Chet Atkins is born in Luttrell, Tennessee. The consummate guitarist, he develops a successful career as an instrumentalist, but also runs RCA Records' country division and helps create the Nashville Sound, joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973
    Sep 12, 1924
    Leona Johnson is born in Williamsburg, Ohio. While working as one-half of the duo The Johnson Sisters at WLW Radio in Cincinnati in 1946, she meets her future husband, Chet Atkins
    May 18, 1939
    Chet Atkins graduates from Mountain Hill Elementary in Fortson, Georgia
    Jul 24, 1941
    Teenage Chet Atkins picks up his first radio job, at Columbus' WRBL in Georgia
    Jun 5, 1945
    Chet Atkins begins working an on-air shift at Cincinnati radio station WLW
    Jul 3, 1946
    Chet Atkins marries Leona Johnson
    Jul 31, 1946
    Red Foley records "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" with Roy Ross & His Ramblers, including guitarist Chet Atkins, at the Decca Recording Studio in New York
    Aug 11, 1947
    Chet Atkins And The Colorado Mountain Boys record "Canned Heat" in Chicago. It will be used in the 2019 PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
    Jul 15, 1951
    The Jay-Cees in Montgomery, Alabama, sponsor a Hank Williams Homecoming that includes performances by Hank Snow, The Carter Family and Chet Atkins, who's billed as the "Teenage Tantalizer"
    Sep 26, 1951
    Red Foley records "Midnight," partially penned by Chet Atkins, at the Castle Studio in Nashville's Tulane Hotel
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