Description
Chet Atkins - 4CD - Eight Classic Albums / Reel To Reel Music Company 4x Audio CD / RTRCD39
UPC 5036408204523
Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily a guitarist, but he also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele, and occasionally sang.
Atkins's signature picking style was inspired by Merle Travis. Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and, later, Jerry Reed. His distinctive picking style and musicianship brought him admirers inside and outside the country scene, both in the United States and abroad. Atkins spent most of his career at RCA Victor and produced records for the Browns, Hank Snow, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Floyd Cramer, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings, Roger Whittaker, and many others.
Rolling Stone credited Atkins with inventing the "popwise 'Nashville sound' that rescued country music from a commercial slump" and ranked him number 21 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Among many other honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received nine Country Music Association awards for Instrumentalist of the Year. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. George Harrison was also inspired by Chet Atkins; early Beatles songs such as "All My Loving" show the influence.
| Label: | Reel To Reel Music Company – RTRCD39 |
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| Format: |
4 x CD, Compilation
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| Country: | Europe |
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| Genre: | Folk, World, & Country |
| Style: | Country |
Tracklist:
| Chet Atkins Gallopin' Guitar - 1952 | |||
| 1-1 | Third Man Theme | ||
| 1-2 | St Louis Blues | ||
| 1-3 | Lover Come Back To Me | ||
| 1-4 | Nobody's Sweetheart | ||
| 1-5 | Stephen Foster Medley | ||
| 1-6 | Hangover Blues | ||
| 1-7 | Imagination | ||
| 1-8 | Black Mountain Rag | ||
| 1-9 | Galloping On Guitar | ||
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Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins - 1953 |
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| 1-10 | Blue Gypsy | ||
| 1-11 | Oh By Jingo | ||
| 1-12 | Hello Ma Baby | ||
| 1-13 | Memphis Blues | ||
| 1-14 | Alice Blue Gown | ||
| 1-15 | Indian Love Call | ||
| 1-16 | Main Street Breakdomn | ||
| 1-17 | Boogie Man Boogie | ||
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Session With Chet Atkins - 1954 |
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| 2-1 | South | ||
| 2-2 | (Back Home Again In) Indiana | ||
| 2-3 | Alabama Jubilee | ||
| 2-4 | Have You Ever Been Lonely? | ||
| 2-5 | Red Wing | ||
| 2-6 | Old Man River | ||
| 2-7 | Caravan | ||
| 2-8 | Corrine, Corrina | ||
| 2-9 | The Birth Of The Blues | ||
| 2-10 | A Gay Ranchero | ||
| 2-11 | Frankie And Johnny | ||
| 2-12 | Honeysuckle Rose | ||
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In Three Dimensions - 1955 |
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| 2-13 | Arkansas Traveler | ||
| 2-14 | Londonderry Air | ||
| 2-15 | Ochi Chornya | ||
| 2-16 | La Golondrina | ||
| 2-17 | Blues In The Night | ||
| 2-18 | Tenderly | ||
| 2-19 | Little Rock Getaway | ||
| 2-20 | Tiptoe Through The Tulips With Me | ||
| 2-21 | Minuet And Prelude | ||
| 2-22 | Intermezzo | ||
| 2-23 | Schön Rosmarin | ||
| 2-24 | Minute Waltz | ||
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The Finger Style Guitar- 1957 |
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| 3-1 | Swedish Rhapsody | ||
| 3-2 | Liza | ||
| 3-3 | In The Mood | ||
| 3-4 | Heartaches | ||
| 3-5 | Glow Worm | ||
| 3-6 | Dance Of The Golden Rod | ||
| 3-7 | Petite Waltz | ||
| 3-8 | La Adelita | ||
| 3-9 | Gavotte In D | ||
| 3-10 | Unchained Melody | ||
| 3-11 | Waltz In A-Flat | ||
| 3-12 | Malaguena | ||
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Hi Fi In Focus- 1957 |
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| 3-13 | El Cumbachero | ||
| 3-14 | Ain't Misbehavin' | ||
| 3-15 | Shadow Waltz | ||
| 3-16 | Anna (El Negro Zumbon) | ||
| 3-17 | Yesterdays | ||
| 3-18 | Portuguese Washerwomen | ||
| 3-19 | Tiger Rag | ||
| 3-20 | Walk, Don't Run | ||
| 3-21 | Tara's Theme | ||
| 3-22 | Johnson Rag | ||
| 3-23 | Lullaby Of The Leaves | ||
| 3-24 | Bouree | ||
| 3-25 | Avorada (Little Music Box) | ||
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At Home - 1958 |
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| 4-1 | Say 'Si Si' | ||
| 4-2 | Vilja | ||
| 4-3 | Sophisticated Lady | ||
| 4-4 | Ay Ay Ay | ||
| 4-5 | Nagasaki | ||
| 4-6 | Yankee Doodle Dixie | ||
| 4-7 | April In Portugal | ||
| 4-8 | Jungle Drums | ||
| 4-9 | In The Chapel In The Moonlight | ||
| 4-10 | Martha | ||
| 4-11 | Czardas | ||
| 4-12 | You're Just In Love | ||
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In Hollywood - 1959 |
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| 4-13 | Armen's Theme | ||
| 4-14 | Let It Be Me | ||
| 4-15 | Theme From 'Picnic' | ||
| 4-16 | Thene From 'a Dream'' | ||
| 4-17 | Estrellita | ||
| 4-18 | Jitterbug Waltz | ||
| 4-19 | Little Old Lady | ||
| 4-20 | Theme From 'Limelight' | ||
| 4-21 | The Three Bells | ||
| 4-22 | Santa Lucia | ||
| 4-23 | Greensleeves | ||
| 4-24 | Meet Mister Callaghan |
