how old was chet atkins when he died?
<answer> 77 <context> Chet Atkins Dead at 77. Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easy listening country style to compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77. Funeral director Bill Ritter of Roesch Patton Funeral Home, which is handling the funeral, said Atkins died at home.