New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Grammy Award-winning acoustic guitarist Tommy Emmanuel and Grammy Award-winning bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland joined together on July 10 to help kick off the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society's four-day annual event that was held at the
Music City Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville. Emmanuel and Cleveland appeared together onstage at the Grand Ole Opry, performing "Mr. Guitar," their collaborative track on the current and critically acclaimed Chet Atkins tribute album, WE STILL CAN'T SAY GOOD BYE—A Musicians' Tribute To Chet Atkins. Both the show and CAAS event honored the legendary music icon and guitar great's 100th anniversary celebration.
Released April 19 on the Morningstar
Music Productions label, the album features 15 tracks and 22 artists from the country, rock, bluegrass and acoustic musical realms. Conceived and produced by the legendary 3-time Grammy-winning, bluegrass and country songwriter, producer and guitarist Carl Jackson, the album contains some of the world's best artists and guitar players including Vince Gill, Eric Clapton, Tommy Emmanuel C.G.P., Ricky Skaggs,
James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley,
Sierra Hull, and many more.
A collection of vinyl records Description automatically generated"Salutes to Chet Atkins's unique career and contributions are unlikely to stop, but this latest entry is a manifestly heartfelt and repeatedly listenable one." - Barry Mazor, Wall Street Journal, 4/15/2024
Morningstar
Music Productions was created by executive producers and longtime great friends Rodger Glaspey and Ken Leister. The two partners performed in groups that recorded albums during the 70's as collegians during the Folk/Rock invasion. Producer and musician Carl Jackson approached Rodger and Ken with the desire to produce an album to honor Chet Atkins. The temptation to executive produce an album in Nashville paying homage to Chet Atkins with some of the finest artists and guitar players in the world including Vince Gill, Tommy Emmanuel, Brad Paisley, and other greats was too captivating to pass up… and thus, Morningstar
Music Productions was born, with their first album release We Still Can't Say Good Bye - A Musicians' Tribute To Chet Atkins was released April 19.
