Alone (Chet Atkins album)

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Alone
Chet Atkins Alone.jpg
Studio album LPby
Released1973
RecordedRCA "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre
Label RCA Victor
Chet Atkins chronology
World's Greatest Melodies
(1972)
Alone
(1973)
Superpickers
(1974)
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Alone is the forty-fourth studio album by the American guitarist Chet Atkins. It peaked at number 42 on the Billboard country albums chart. It was during the recording of this album that Atkins was diagnosed with colon cancer. [2]

Contents

Reissues

In 1989, RCA/Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued Pickin' My Way , Chet Atkins in Hollywood and Alone in a double CD set.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hawaiian Slack Key" – 2:35
  2. "The Claw" (Jerry Reed) – 2:16
  3. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 2:01
  4. "Flop Eared Mule and Other Classics"
  5. "Over the Waves" (Juventino Rosas) – 2:30
  6. "Just as I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:25

Side two

  1. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) – 2:28
  2. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) – 2:42
  3. "Blue Finger" (Jerry Reed) – 2:36
  4. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) – 2:30
  5. "Londonderry Air" (arrangement: Atkins) – 2:58
  6. "The Watkins Man" – 2:47

Personnel

Production notes

References

  1. Alone at AllMusic. Retrieved September 2, 2025.
  2. Atkins, Chet and Neely, Bill. (1974). "Country Gentleman". Chicago. Harry Regnery Company. ISBN   0-8092-9051-0.