1. “Mr. Sandman” (Live 1954) The below 1954 performance sees the guitarist take on the dreamy classic “Mr. Sandman,” plucking the bouncy tune with jaw-dropping precision and ease.

Remembering Chet Atkins, one of country music's most beloved and influential musicians, label executives, and record producers.

If outright bluegrass was relatively peripheral in Chet Atkins’s own broad oeuvre, the genre certainly provides a wide range of ace pickers, much represented in Mr. Jackson’s choices, along ...