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    • May 9, 1964
    Chet Atkins' "Guitar Country" goes to #1 on the Billboard country albums chart for the first of six straight weeks
    May 12, 1964
    The Chet Atkins-produced Al Hirt hit "Java" wins Best Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra during the sixth annual Grammy Awards
    Jul 31, 1964
    Jim Reeves dies in a plane crash during a thunderstorm in Brentwood, Tennessee. Nashville stars comb the area for the wreckage for three days, including Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and Ernest Tubb
    Nov 5, 1964
    Dottie West sings "Here Comes My Baby" as "The Jimmy Dean Show" airs from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Other guests on the ABC broadcast include Eddy Arnold, Minnie Pearl, Chet Atkins, Flatt & Scruggs, Ernest Tubb and The Jordanaires, who join Dean on "Big Bad John"
    Nov 12, 1964
    Willie Nelson holds his inaugural recording session in a new deal with RCA, with Chet Atkins producing at RCA Studio B in Nashville. The first song on the session is Nelson's Christmas title, "Pretty Paper"
    Nov 17, 1964
    One day after he saw Waylon Jennings perform at J.D.s in Phoenix, Bobby Bare calls Chet Atkins, while headed to Las Vegas, and urges him to sign Jennings to RCA. Atkins doesn't pursue it until Duane Eddy places a similar call a few weeks later
    Mar 16, 1965
    Waylon Jennings makes his first recordings in a new deal with RCA, working with Chet Atkins at a Nashville session
    Apr 8, 1965
    Jimmy Dean sings "Why Don't You Love Me" backed by Floyd Cramer on piano and duets with Rowlf the Muppet on "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" during ABC-TV's "The Jimmy Dean Show." Chet Atkins also appears and presents Dean a CMA plaque honoring his "promulgation of country music"
    Apr 23, 1965
    Chet Atkins records "Yakety Axe" at RCA Studio B in Nashville
    Nov 7, 1965
    A sign of the times--Chet Atkins comes out in favor of stereo in The Tennessean: "Everything sounds better in stereo...It makes everything sound more life-like"
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