Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns

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Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
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Studio album by
Released1962
Recorded Nashville, TN
Genre Country, gospel
Length28:29
Label RCA Victor LSP-2601
Producer Anita Kerr
Chet Atkins chronology
The Most Popular Guitar
(1961)
Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
(1962)
Caribbean Guitar
(1962)

Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns is the seventeenth studio album of instrumental gospel hymns by guitarist Chet Atkins.

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, Bob Ferguson and 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.

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Writing for Allmusic, critic Jason Ankeny wrote that the album is "simply too brief to stand as a definitive collection of the guitarist's spiritual recordings; his instrumental work is impeccable of course, but performances of favorites like "Amazing Grace," "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" and "The Old Rugged Cross" pass by too quickly to properly whet the listener's appetite." [1]

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Bertelsmann Music Group Record label company

Bertelsmann Music Group was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music company was formed as RCA/Ariola International in 1984 as a joint venture to combine the music label activities of RCA Corporation's RCA Records division and Bertelsmann's Ariola Records and its associated labels which include Arista Records. It consisted of the BMG Music Publishing company, the world's third largest music publisher and the world's largest independent music publisher, and the 50% share of the joint venture with Sony Music, which established the German American Sony BMG from 2004 to 2008.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" (Thomas A. Dorsey) – 2:43
  2. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 2:36
  3. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Traditional) – 2"07
  4. "In the Garden" (C. Austin Miles) – 2:31
  5. "When They Ring the Golden Bells" (Traditional) – 2:30
  6. "Just As I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:43

Side two

  1. "Further Along" (Traditional) – 3:03
  2. "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" (Traditional) – 2:05
  3. "The Old Rugged Cross" (George Bennard) – 2:25
  4. "Lonesome Valley" (Carter) – 2:02
  5. "God Be With You" (Traditional) – 2:33
  6. "Were You There" (Traditional) – 2:11

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Ankeny, Jason. "Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.