Chris Cohen is an American musician.

Chris Cohen is currently working with his band ‘The Curtains’.

Chris Cohen - The Curtains

Chris Cohen formed the band ‘The Curtains’ with Trevor Shimizu in the year 2000. At the beginning they played short songs, later they joined with Jamie Peterson (drummer) and recorded their first album ‘Fast Talks’ for the Thin Wrist label. In 2002, the next phase of The Curtains, Chris joined by synthesizer player Greg Saunier and drummer Andrew Maxwell and released two albums ‘Flybys’ and ‘Vehicles of Travel’. At the same time Chris joined the band ‘Deerhoof’.

The Curtains got split after their album ‘Vehicles of Travel’, and Chris and Greg focused on Deerhoof.

Chris Cohen joined the band ‘Deerhoof’ as a second guitarist. Cohen formed another band ‘Natural Dreamers’ along with the guitarist John Dieterich. The band ‘Deerhoof’ with the four members, Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, Chris Cohen and Greg Saunier toured and built the international popularity.

The band ‘Deerhoof’ released “Apple O” in 2003, “Milk Man” in 2004, and “The Runners Four” in 2005 which gave them a huge success. A short Extended Play, “Green Cosmos” was released at the same time in 2005.

The last performance of Chris Cohen with the band ‘Deerhoof’ was at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Deerhoof was invited to perform a live, original score to a silent film of their choosing by the ‘San Francisco International Film Festival’, where they chose Harry Smith’s “Heaven and Earth Magic’ and performed their hour-long soundtrack, largely composed by Dieterich in 2006.

Chris Cohen reformed his band ‘The Curtains’ with Annie Lewandowski and Nedelle and released the album ‘Calamity’ on Asthmatic Kitty Records in 2006.

In 2003, The Curtains toured the West Coast with the Japanese Folk Orchestra ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz’. To make their tour a document, the group joined the Japanese folk orchestra and released the split CD ‘Make Us Two Crayons on the Floor’. Cohen also performed on Maher Shalal Hash Baz’s album ‘Faux Depart’ with the other American guests.

Some of Chris albums include:

• Fast Talks (2001)
• Flybys (2003)
• Vehicles of Travel (2004)
• Make Us Two Crayons on the Floor (2005)
• Calamity (2006)
• Split 7" (2003) 
• "Alphabet Series -N-" (2006) 
• Apple O' (2003) 
• Milk Man (2004) 
• The Runners Four (2005)
• Green Cosmos (2005)

Chester Burton Atkins was a record producer and an influential guitarist born on June 20, 1924 in Luttrell, Tennessee.

Chet Atkins was the youngest in the family and grew up in Luttrell, Tennessee, near the Clinch Mountains with his mother and two brothers and a sister. Chet Atkins began his musical career by playing the fiddle at a child on the recommendation of his older brother Lowell. At the age of nine he was still attracted to the guitar and traded a pistol for a guitar and became proficient guitarist by the time he left high school.

Chet Atkins

Chet’s half-brother James was his main musical inspiration. Jim was a successful guitarist who worked with a famous jazz guitarist ‘Les Paul Trio’ in New York. Chet heard Merle Travis’s fingerpicking over WLW radio. Merle Travis used his right hand finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes which influenced Chet to shape his unique style by using three fingers of his right hand for picking and thumb for bass notes.

Chet Atkins at the age of eighteen got a job in a radio station called ‘WNOX’ in Knoxville where he played fiddle and guitar with the musician ‘Archie Campbell’ and singer ‘Bill Carlisle’ as well as became the member of ‘Dixieland Swingsters’station. By 1942, Chet performed his own solo instrumental spot on WNOX’s Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round show. After three years, he moved to Cincinnati in Ohio and joined ‘WLW’ radio station. Chet moved to Raleigh after six months and worked with Jack and Johnnie.

Chet Atkins later moved to Richmond, Virginia and performed with Sunshine Sue Workman. He was auditioned to replace a country music singer Red Foley, who was leaving WLS National Barn Dance to join Grand Ole Opry. Chet Atkins as a member of Foley’s band made his first appearance at the ‘Grand Ole Opry’ in 1946. On the same year he also recorded a single ‘Guitar Blues’ for a record label ‘Bullet Records’ based in Nashville. Chet performed solo for a while on ‘Grand Ole Opry’ and then moved to ‘KWTO’ radio station in Springfield, Missouri. He was repeatedly fired because of his sophisticated style which differed from the expectations of the station’s executives.

Chet Atkins caught RCA Records attention when he was working with the Western Band in Denver, Colorado. Si Siman, executive of ‘KWTO’ encouraged the recording executive of RCA Records ‘Steve Sholes’ to sign Atkins as his style was suddenly in trend. Atkins received the call from RCA and moved to Nashville to record.

Chet Atkins recorded eight tracks for the RCA Labels in Nashville. In 1949, Steve Sholes was impressed by his playing and made him the studio guitarist for all of RCA studio’s Nashville sessions. Atkins was hired as a regular on ‘Grand Ole Opry’ by Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.

Chet Atkins still worked for RCA and played on many hit records. His first hit single was “Mr. Sandman” which followed by “Silver Bell”. Apart from his recordings, Atkins became a design consultant for a U.S musical instrument manufacturer ‘Gretsch’ which manufactured Chet Atkins line of guitars from 1955 to 1980.

Chet Atkins became the manager for the Nashville division of RCA as Steve Sholes left for New York to act as head of pop A&R in 1957. His music journey continued throughout the early 1960s. In 1960, he played in the Newport Jazz Festival; he performed at the White House in 1961. In 1965, Atkins biggest hit single came with ‘Yakety Sax’. Steve Sholes died in 1968 and Atkins was promoted to vice-president of RCA.

Atkins wanted to record jazz album which was not possible in RCA, he quit RCA in 1982 and signed with Columbia Records. In 1983, he produced a debut album for Columbia Records.

Chet Atkins awards include: Grammy Awards, ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 1993, nine ‘Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year’ Awards, ‘Century Award’ from ‘Billboard’ magazine in 1997.

Chet Atkins was suffering from cancer and died at his home in Nashville on June 30, 2001.

Some of his albums include:

• (1952) Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar (10")
• (1953) Stringin Along (10")
• (1953) String Dustin'
• (1954) A Session with Chet Atkins
• (1955) Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins
• (1955) Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions
• (1955) The Amazing Chet Atkins
• (1956) Finger Style Guitar
• (1957) Hi Fi in Focus
• (1958) Chet Atkins at Home
• (1959) Mister Guitar
• (1959) Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins
• (1959) Chet Atkins in Hollywood
• (1960) The Other Chet Atkins
• (1961) Teensville
• (1960) After the Riot at Newport
• (1961) Chet Atkins' Workshop
• (1961) The Most Popular Guitar
• (1961) Chet Atkins Plays Great Movie Themes
• (1961) Christmas with Chet Atkins
• (1962) Down Home
• (1962) Plays Back Home Hymns
• (1962) Caribbean Guitar
• (1963) Our Man in Nashville
• (1963) Teen Scene
• (1963) Travelin'
• (1963) The Guitar Genius
• (1964) Guitar Country
• (1964) Progressive Pickin'
• (1964) Reminiscing
• (1964) The Best of Chet Atkins
• (1964) The Early Years of Chet Atkins & His Guitar
• (1965) My Favorite Guitars
• (1965) More of That Guitar Country
• (1966) Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles
• (1966) From Nashville with Love
• (1966) The Pops Goes Country
• (1966) The Best of Chet Atkins Vol. 2
• (1966) Music from Nashville, My Hometown
• (1967) It's A Guitar World
• (1967) Chet Atkins Picks the Best
• (1967) Class Guitar
• (1967) Chet
• (1968) Solo Flights
• (1968) Solid Gold 68
• (1968) Play Guitar with Chet Atkins
• (1968) Chet All The Way
• (1968) Hometown Guitar
• (1969) Relaxin' with Chet
• (1969) Lovers Guitar
• (1969) Solid Gold 69
• (1969) The Nashville String Band
• (1970) C.B. Atkins & C.E. Snow by Special Request
• (1969) Chet Atkins Picks on the Pops
• (1970) Yestergroovin'
• (1970) Solid Gold 70
• (1970) Me & Jerry
• (1970) Down Home
• (1970) Pickin' My Way
• (1970) This Is Chet Atkins
• (1971) Mr. Atkins, Guitar Picker
• (1971) Chet Atkins Guitar Method Volume 1 & 2 (F.A.M.E.)
• (1971) For the Good Times
• (1971) Strung Up
• (1971) Country Pickin'
• (1971) Identified!
• (1971) Chet Floyd & Boots
• (1972) Me & Chet
• (1972) World's Greatest Melodies
• (1972) Now & Then
• (1972) American Salute
• (1972) The Bandit
• (1972) Nashville Gold
• (1972) Picks on the Hits
• (1973) Greatest Hits of the 50's w/Arthur Fiedler
• (1972) Finger Pickin' Good
• (1973) Discover Japan
• (1974) Chet Atkins Picks on Jerry Reed
• (1973) Superpickers
• (1974) The Atkins Travis Traveling Show
• (1975) The Night Atlanta Burned
• (1975) Famous Country Music Makers
• (1975) In Concert
• (1975) The Golden Guitar of Chet Atkins
• (1973) Alone
• (1976) Chester & Lester
• (1975) Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies
• (1975) Teen Scene
• (1977) Love Letters
• (1976) The Best of Chet Atkins and Friends
• (1977) Me and My Guitar
• (1977) Chet Floyd & Danny
• (1977) A Legendary Performer
• (1978) Guitar Monsters
• (1979) And Then Came Chet
• (1979) First Nashville Guitar Quartet
• (1980) The Best of Chet on the Road Live
• (1980) Reflections
• (1981) Country After All These Years
• (1981) Standard Brands
• (1981) Country Music
• (1982) Solid Gold Guitar
• (1983) Guitar Pickin' Man
• (1983) Great Hits of the Past
• (1983) Work It out with Chet Atkins C.G.P.
• (1983) East Tennessee Christmas
• (1984) Tennessee Guitar Man
• (1984) A Man & His Guitar
• (1985) Collectors Series
• (1985) Guitar for all Seasons
• (1985) Stay Tuned
• (1986) 20 of the Best
• (1986) Street Dreams
• (1987) Sails
• (1988) Chet Atkins, C.G.P.
• (1988) Pickin' on Country
• (1989) Masters of the Guitar: Together
• (1989) Pickin' the Hits
• (1990) Neck & Neck
• (1990) The Magic of Chet Atkins

Ebenezer Obey is from the ‘Egba-Yoruba’ Tribal background of Ogun State, Nigeria and his original name is ‘Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Fabiyi’. After moving to Lagos in the mid of 1950s he started his musical career and played with various bands.

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey et al

After his work with the band ‘Fatai Rolling-Dollar’ as an instructor, he formed his own band ‘The International Brothers’ in 1964. The band came out playing highlife-juju fusion, a style of Nigerian popular music. In the early 1970s, the band transformed themselves into ‘Inter-Reformers’ and released a list of ‘Juju’ album hits on the West African Decca musical label.

Ebenezer Obey started experimenting with ‘Yoruba Percussion’ style and modernizing the band by adding Western-style guitars, drum-kits, funkiness of Yoruban drumming and talking drums, a West African drum. The merging of complex Yoruba proverbs into dance-floor composition was his musical strength. The Inter-Reformers band performed in Nigerian Yoruba social-circle music and did extremely well in praise singing for rich Nigerian Socialites and business tycoons. Ebenezer is also well known for Christian spiritual themes in his music. In the early 1990s he got retired from Nigerian music department.

Some of his albums include:

• Ewa Wo Ohun Ojuri
• Aiye Gba Jeje b/w Ifelodun
• Gari Ti Won b/w Orin Adura
• Awolowo Babawa Tide b/w Oluwa Niagbara Emi Mi
• Palongo b/w Teti Ko Gboro Kan
• Oro Miko Lenso b/w Orin Ajinde
• Late Justice Olumide Omololu b/w Iyawo Ti Mo Ko Fe
• Olomi Gbo Temi b/w Maria Odeku
• To Keep Nigeria One b/w Awa Sope Odun Titun
• Edumare Lon Pese b/w Omo Olomo
• Ope Fun Oluwa b/w Paulina
• Ore Mi E Si Pelepele b/w Ajo Ni Mo wa
• Ijebu L'ade b/w Lati Owolabi
• Col. Ben Adekunle b/w Ori Bayemi
• Lolade Wilkey b/w Adetunji Adeyi
• Gbe Bemi Oluwa b/w Olowo Laiye Mo
• Ode To Nso Eledumare b/w Pegan Pegan
• Sanu-olu b/w K'Oluwa So Pade Wa
• London Lawa Yi b/w Oro Seniwo
• Isokan Nigeria / etc
• Eni Mayo Ayo / etc
• Lawyer Adewuyi
• Ala Taja Bala b/w Ohun Toluwa Ose
• Ogun Pari / etc
• In London
• On The Town
• Ija Pari (Part One) b/w Ija Pari (Part Two)
• Esa Ma Miliki b/w Awon Alhaji
• Face to Face b/w Late Rex Lawson
• Oro Nipa Lace b/w Yaro Malaika
• Late Oba Gbadelo II 
• Board Members
• Vol.4: Aiye Wa A Toro
• In London Vol. 3
• Odun Keresimesi
• And His Miliki Sound
• The Horse, The Man and His Son
• E Je Ka Gbo T'Oluwa
• Adeventure of Mr. Music
• Mo Tun Gbe De
• Inter-Reformers A Tunde
• Eko Ila
• Around the World
• Iwalka Ko Pe
• Mukulu Muke Maa Jo
• Ota Mi Dehin Lehin Mi
• Alo Mi Alo
• Edumare Dari Jiwon
• Late Great Murtara Murtala Ramat Muhammed
• Operation Feed The Nation
• Eda To Mose Okunkun
• Immortal Sings for Travellers
• Adam and Eve
• Igba Owuro Lawa
• Oluwa Ni Olusa Aguntan Mi
• No Place Be Like My Country Nigeria
• In the Sixties Vol.1
• In the Sixties Vol.2
• Igba Laiye
• Sky
• E Wa Kiye Soro Mi
• Omo Mi Gbo Temi
• Leave Everything to God
• Current Affairs
• Sound of the Moment
• Eyi Yato
• Joy of Salvation
• What God Has Joined Together
• Celebration
• Austerity
• Precious Gift
• Ambition
• Singing for the People
• Greatest Hits Vol. 3
• Je Ka Jo
• Thank You (Ose)
• The Only Condition to Save Nigeria
• Solution
• Peace
• Security
• My Vision
• Gbeja Mi Eledumare
• Satisfaction
• Providence
• Aimasiko
• Immortality
• Victory
• Patience
• Determination
• Vanity
• Formula 0-1-0
• Get Yer Jujus Out
• Count Your Blessing
• On the Rock
• Womanhood
• Good News
• I Am a Winner
• Walking Over (1994 ?)
• The Legend
• Millennial Blessings
• Promised Land

Charlotte Irene Caffey is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter born on October 21, 1953 in Santa Monica, California. She is best known for her work in an all-female American rock and roll group “Go-Go’s”.

Charlotte Caffey is currently working with “Go-Go’s” and sometimes performs in ‘Ze Malibu Kids’ project with her daughter Astrid and husband Jeff McDonald, former member of the rock band ‘Redd Kross’.

Charlotte Caffey with The Go-Go's

Charlotte Caffey is the daughter of ‘Michael Caffey’, who is a television director and has directed shows like ‘Wonder Woman’ in 1976, ‘CHiPs’ in 1977 and ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ in 1979. Charlotte Caffey formed the “Go-Go’s” in 1978 in Los Angeles with Jane Wiedlin on guitar/vocals, Elissa Bello on drums, Belinda Carlisle on vocals and Margot Oliveira on bass. The band initially started playing in clubs and in the late 1979; the band recorded a 5-song demo at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. The group supported the English pop/ska band ‘Madness’ in England and Los Angeles in 1979 and 1980. Two new members joined the band, Gina Schock who replaced Bello on drums and Kathy Valentine who replaced Margot Olaverraed on bass. In April 1981, the band signed to I.R.S Records. In the early 1982, the bands single albums like ‘Beauty and the Beat’, ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ and the new version of ‘We Got the Beat’ were exceedingly popular in North America.

Charlotte Caffey has been the lead guitarist in the ‘Go-Go’s” under the name ‘The Misfits’. To top the album charts of American magazine ‘Billboard’, Go-Go’s played their own instruments and wrote their own songs which made rock history as the first all-woman band. The band was playing all genres like surf, pop-punk, new wave, rock and power pop. The bands recognition increased in the early 1980s and their debut album ‘Beauty and the Beat’ released in 1981. The album was at number one position for the six weeks on the ‘Billboard 200’ chart.

Charlotte Caffey formed a new band ‘The Graces’ after the dissolution of Go-Go’s in 1985. The new band included Meredith Brooks and Gia Ciambotti on vocals which released one album ‘Perrfect View’ in 1989.

Charlotte Caffey rejoined with the former members of “Go-Go’s” in 1994 and released the album ‘God Bless the Go-Go’s’ in 2001.

DISCOGRAPHY:

• ‘Beauty and the Beat’ and ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ in 1981
• ‘Vacation’, ‘We Got  the Beat’, ‘Get Up and Go’ and ‘He’s So Strange’ in 1982
• ‘Talk Show’, ‘Head Over Heels’, ‘Turn to You’ and ‘Yes or No’ in 1984
• ‘Greatest’ 1990 
• ‘Cool Jerk’ in 1991
• ‘Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's’ and ‘The Whole World Lost Its Head’ in 1994
• ‘VH1 Behind the Music: Go-Go's Collection’ in 2000
• ‘God Bless the Go-Go's’ and ‘Unforgiven’ in 2001