Chet (Chet Atkins album)

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Chet
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Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released 1967
Recorded Nashville, TN
Genre Country, pop, jazz
Label RCA Camden CAS-2182
Producer Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson
Chet Atkins chronology
It's a Guitar World
(1967)
Chet
(1967)
Picks the Best
(1967)
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Chet is a studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1967.

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Chet Atkins American guitarist and record producer

Chester Burton Atkins, known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician, occasional vocalist, songwriter, and record producer, who along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, among others, created the country music style that came to be known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country music's appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily known as a guitarist. He also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele.

Contents

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Foggy Mountain Top" (Carter)
  2. "Truck Driver's Blues" (Ted Daffan)
  3. "Bandera" (Atkins)
  4. "Make the World Go Away" (Hank Cochran)
  5. "Oh Baby Mine" (Pat Ballard)

Side two

  1. "Oklahoma Hills" (Woody Guthrie)
  2. "Just Out of Reach (Stewart)
  3. "Wabash Cannonball" (Carter)
  4. "Release Me" (Eddie Miller, W. S. Stevenson)
  5. "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" (Traditional)

Personnel

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