{"id":28828,"date":"2024-02-21T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-clapton-james-taylor-to-appear-on-chet-atkins-tribute-album\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T21:02:21","slug":"eric-clapton-james-taylor-to-appear-on-chet-atkins-tribute-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-clapton-james-taylor-to-appear-on-chet-atkins-tribute-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton &amp; James Taylor to appear on Chet Atkins tribute album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-21\/M_AtkinsWeStillCantSayGoodbye_022124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Morningstar Music Productions\/MVD Entertainment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong> and <strong>James Taylor<\/strong> are among the artists contributing to a new album celebrating the music of \u201cMr. Guitar\u201d <strong>Chet Atkins<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">We Still Can\u2019t Say Good Bye, <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">billed as &#8220;a\u00a0musician\u2019s tribute to Chet Atkins,&#8221; features an A-list lineup of artists performing on 15 tracks made famous by Atkins, who passed away in 2001 at the age of 77.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In total, 22 musicians and artists appear on the record. In addition to Clapton and Taylor, guests include <strong>Vince Gill<\/strong>, <strong>Alison Krauss<\/strong>, <strong>Brad Paisley\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Tommy Emmanuel<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clapton appears on two songs on the album, \u201cSo Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">which also features\u00a0Gill and <strong>Bradley Walker<\/strong>, and \u201cFreight Train,\u201d which features several special guests. Taylor teams up with Krauss for one song, \u201cHow\u2019s The World Treating You.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">We Still Can\u2019t Say Good Bye<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is set to drop April 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Atkins has been credited with creating the &#8220;Nashville sound,&#8221; which helped popularize country music.\u00a0During\u00a0his career he was the winner of 14 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in the Music Excellence category in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morningstar Music Productions\/MVD Entertainment Eric Clapton and James Taylor are among the artists contributing to a new album celebrating the music of \u201cMr. Guitar\u201d Chet Atkins. We Still Can\u2019t Say Good Bye, billed as &#8220;a\u00a0musician\u2019s tribute to Chet Atkins,&#8221; features an A-list lineup of artists performing on 15 tracks made<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-clapton-james-taylor-to-appear-on-chet-atkins-tribute-album\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}