Artist	Song
John Lee Hooker	Messin' With The Hook
Chet Atkins	Borsalino
John Lee Hooker	Sugar Mama
Chet Atkins with Larry Carlton	Quiet Eyes
John Lee Hooker	Walkin' The Boogie
Chet Atkins backing Hank Williams Sr.	Your Cheatin' Heart (the original)
John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana	The Healer
Chet Atkins with Tommy Emmanuel	The Day Finger Pickers Took Over The World
John Lee Hooker	Boom Boom
Chet Atkins and Clint Black	Ode To Chet
John Lee Hooker with Canned Heat	Whiskey and Wimmen'
Chet Atkins backing Elvis Presley	Heartbreak Hotel (the original)
John Lee Hooker sampled by St. Germain	Sure Thing
Chet Atkins	If I Should Lose You
John Lee Hooker	Boogie Chillen
Chet Atkins producing Jerry Reed	Amos Moses
John Lee Hooker and B.B. King	You Shook Me
Chet Atkins	Smokey Mountain Lullabye

Comment:

Allow me a brief but gushy tribute to a couple of recently fallen guitar heroes who, as it turns out, couldn't have been more different. Chet Atkins died last weekend at age 77. He was known as the Country Gentleman (Gibson released a line of sweet guitars under that name) and played about as refined a style as there is. John Lee Hooker died a coupla weeks ago, long after he achieved legend status of his own. Atkins played on a ton of hits in the 1950s and 1960s (including the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie"), recorded about 90 albums on his own, produced artists like Jerry Reed and Floyd Cramer. Thousands of players (from Eric Johnson to Steve Wariner) acknowledged over the years that they copied him and fell under his influence. He was the first guy I ever heard play a guitar. My mom gave me a Chet Atkins record when I was 9 and had just been given my first guitar. At the time, I figured all you needed to be good was a Chet record, a Mel Bay book and some practice. I didn't hear John Lee til some years later. What he taught me is that you didn't need the Mel Bay book anymore to be good. Chet surrounded himself with wonderful musicians and always went for the most proper approach possible. Hooker, meanwhile, learned to accompany himself rhythmically by sticking a microphone in an empty toilet bowl (for reverb) and then banging his foot on the outside of the bowl as he played. Farewell, boys. Thanks for everything.

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