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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—When I look back on periods of my life, I tend to remember moments, not the neatly told chronological story which looks so pretty on the printed page. Puking the first time I saw my sister after she was born. Hitting the only home run of my Little League career. Or Dec. 13, 1997, when my mom and sister burst out of apartment building’s elevator and told me I had gotten into Harvard...
...subdivision in Nashville, Tenn., live David and Nancy Guthrie. They own no sheep or camels, but they have a late-model Infiniti and a wide-screen Sony TV. They would never lay claim to blamelessness, but they are regarded as upright and God-fearing among their friends, who place high value on those traits. Sometimes those friends compare the Guthries...
DIED. CHET ATKINS, 77, country-music guitarist whose unique finger-picking style influenced younger musicians from George Harrison to George Benson; in Nashville, Tenn. Atkins played on hit records with Elvis Presley (Heartbreak Hotel) and Hank Williams (Jambalaya), and sold 75 million copies of his own albums. Along with Vince Gill, he led all country artists in Grammy awards, with...
...urgent electric-guitar riffs influenced modern rock 'n' roll and inspired such musicians as Van Morrison, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton; in Los Altos, Calif. The son of a sharecropper and one of 11 children, Hooker ran away from home at 14 to make music in Memphis, Tenn., and didn't stop until 1997--more than 100 albums later. In 1989 Hooker won his first of four Grammy Awards for a version of his 1951 million-selling single, I'm in the Mood, which he rerecorded with Bonnie Raitt. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall...
DIED. JOHN HARTFORD, 63, quirky, sociable bluegrass banjo virtuoso, fiddler and guitarist, who penned the much recorded country song Gentle on My Mind, which won him two Grammy Awards and became a Top 40 hit for Glen Campbell; of cancer; in Nashville, Tenn. Beloved for spirited performances at bluegrass festivals and for throwing picking parties at his home, Hartford collaborated with the Byrds and Benny Martin but also recorded some 40 of his own albums, most recently appearing on the sound track for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou...