Chet Atkins Musicians Days II - Witness History

[Jules]

Do anyone of you remember about this concert?

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/mark-knopfler/1998/ryman-auditorium-nashville-tn-539f270d.html

MK was part of the band the whole show and played many songs himself at the end:

Blue Train (Marty Stuart)
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (Marty Stuart)
I walk the line (Travis Tritt)
I've Always Been Crazy (Waylong Jennings)
Sunday Morning Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson)
Rainy Day Woman (Waylon Jennings and Mark Collie)
I Ain't Living Long Like This (Waylong Jennings and Mark Collie)
Hello Darlin (Brenda Lee)
Crazy (Brenda Lee)
Tennessee Stud (Gilllian Welch and David Rawlings)
Acony Bell (Gillian Welch and David Rawlings)
Amanda (Gillian Welch and David Rawlings)
Don't Take Your Love To Town (John Anderson)
Just to Satisfy You (John Anderson)
When It Comes to you (John Anderson and Mark Knopfler)
Setting Me Up (Mark Knopfler)
I Still Miss Someone (Mark Knopfler)
Two Skinny Kids (Mark Knopfler)
Romeo and Juliet (Mark Knopfler)
Sultans Of Swing (Mark Knopfler)
The Next Time I'm in Town (Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins)

Information from: http://www.martystuart.com/WitnessII-review.htm

The next day MK played the famous "Master sessions" which is in a bootleg, with unreleased songs "Two skinny kids" and "It's been a while"

[Jules]

Some pictures by Kenneth B. Donaldson (please, if you read this, send me a PM)

[Robson]

I Still Miss Someone. I forgot about this recording. 1998 concerts at Ronnie Scott's Club, London.
I have to look for.

[mschaap]

This concert has always intrigued me, a special occasion and very interesting set!
If I remember correctly this concert was professionally filmed to be possibly broadcasted by PBS or some other US televion station. Sadly, that never happened (as with all filmed MK concerts). I still hope it is archived somewhere and will see the light of day sometime.

[hunter]

I didn't know about this! What an amazing show that must have been! Crazy that there is NO video of this on the intergoogle.

[dmg]

An absolutely bizarre decision not to broadcast a show with such an array of talent on one stage.  Absolutely bizarre.   

[Knopflerfan]

Wow, scandelous this never got broadcast........

[qjamesfloyd]

Sounds like it was an amazing night, I hope someone digs this out from the archive so we can all watch it, and it would also be great to watch and hear Mark play Two Skinny Kids.

[Jules]

I'm not sure if PBS recorded the whole thing or they were just there to record some scenes for news reports or something...

What it's strange is that nobody did an audience recording of it, but there is a recording of the master sessions that happened the next day...

[Jules]

Sounds like it was an amazing night, I hope someone digs this out from the archive so we can all watch it, and it would also be great to watch and hear Mark play Two Skinny Kids.

I wrote an email to the PBS, in concrete to the Nashville one. Let's see if there is any reply but, this was 21 years ago... I'll be lucky if anyone remember about this.

[qjamesfloyd]

That's great, I hope you get a positive reply. That was a show with a lot of legends involved, it would be a shame not to have a visual record of it.

[Robson]

I remember the concert Chet Atkins And Friends (1987) I got it on a VHS cassette The document was officially released. Also many great guests.

[qjamesfloyd]

Yes, that was a great show too. Emmylou Harris played on that show with Mark too.

[hunter]

I remember the concert Chet Atkins And Friends (1987) I got it on a VHS cassette The document was officially released. Also many great guests.

I have that one on DVD. If I remember correctly, the sound quality is so-so. It also feels pretty dated. Still good music though, and a nice "document".

[Jules]

Digging into the TR mailing list files I found some text about this concert and the media related to it:

"Chet Atkins' Musician Days" media partners include; The
Tennessean, NewsChannel 5, CitySearch, WGFX-FM, WKDF-FM, WMOT-FM, WPLN-FM,
WQQK-FM, WSM-AM, WSM-FM and WJCZ-FM.   
               For more information on the second annual "Chet Atkins'
Musician Days" please contact, Ray Crabtree, Crabtree Public Relations, (615)
255-7225, fax, (615) 255-7227, e-mail, rcrabt7478@aol.com. Or visit
www.musiciandays.com, or
www.nashville.citysearch.com