relaxed jam session two great guitarists

Chet Atkins is one of the biggest names in American music business: as a music producer and country musician, but above all as a pioneer of fingerpicking guitarist he is a household name worldwide, and have been a constant source of inspiration. This also applies to Mark Knopfler, who counted Atkins for his great role models and a lot of its technology (Nashville-picking, hybrid picking) was included in its classic Dire Straits sound, or on his solo albums in recent years more and more in this direction tends.
With "Neck and Neck" arose for the young Knopfler the opportunity with his great idol together, and come out a very relaxed jam session is across the melting pot of folk, blues, country, rock and jazz which original compositions by Atkins & Knopfler as well as interpretations of some classics contains (as the jazz tune "See you in my dreams"). The pace of the songs is completely different, the focus is on instrumentals, and between their trademark licks the two still have time to throw a couple winking comments.
Chet Atkins was much more than just the country musician than to know him a lot. He was at home in all styles and has implemented a host of classical piano pieces from the jazz and ragtime (about the "Entertainer" by Scott Joplin) unprecedented on the guitar; on numerous boards of other artists as a producer he pulled strings in the background. Who wants to see or hear more of Chet Atkins, I recommend the one hand, the music documentary "Chet Atkins - A Life in Music" and his CD "Chet Atkins Picks The Beatles" on which he the most famous Beatles numbers in his inimitable finger picking style interpreted.