He was also able to convince the label to build a new recording studio, of which Atkins was placed in charge. The following year saw the release of Elvis Presley, which began a successful commercial run of 15 charting singles produced for the King that resulted in Sholes’ promotion to RCA’s pop singles manager. In 1955, Sholes also signed a 20-year-old Elvis Presley to RCA, buying out his contract from Sun Records for an unprecedented US$40,000. Sandman’ and ‘Silver Bell’, and became a design consultant for Gretsch. He was signed by Stephen Sholes, the A&R director of country music, in 1947 and moved to Nashville while backing the Carter Family in the mid-‘50s, during which time he scored several hit singles such as ‘Mr. Read up on all the latest features and columns here.Ītkins began his musical career as a guitarist, developing a finger-picking style that utilised his first three fingers with his thumb used for the bass strings. We’re taking a little break here at Mixdown and are reposting some old favourites of ours, this article was originally published August 16, 2018. What emerged was a series of releases out of Nashville’s RCA Victor studios produced by Chester Burton ‘Chet’ Atkins and the pioneering engineer Bill Porter that became known as ‘the Nashville sound’, and caused country music to become a greater commercial enterprise than ever before. The early 1950s saw the emergence of a new style of pop, gospel and blues that became known as rock’n’roll, a form that would grow to consume the pop charts and impact the sales of those that had occupied that space previously.Ĭountry music was one such industry that found itself suddenly out of step, necessitating something new to regain the record buying public’s attention. Music does not and should not stand still instead it follows a continual arc, complete with sidesteps, repetitions and leaps, pushed forward by a combination of innovations and happy accidents.
Words by Mixdown Staff Revisiting the iconic sound that gave birth to hits from Elvis Presley, Don Gibson, Roy Orbison, and more!
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