Class Guitar

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Class Guitar
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Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released 1967
Recorded RCA "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre Country, pop, classical
Label RCA Victor
Producer Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson
Chet Atkins chronology
Picks the Best
(1967)		Class Guitar
(1967)		 Hometown Guitar
(1968)

Class Guitar is the title of a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins. It peaked at number 26 on the Country Album charts and number 189 on the Pop Album charts. It is out of print.

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

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Yellow Bird" (Keith, Bergman, Luboff)
  2. "Malaguena" (Ernesto Lecuona)
  3. "Morenita Do Brazil" (Farrauto) – 3:02
  4. "Testament of Amelia"
  5. "Acutely Cute" (Atkins) – 2:06
  6. "Little Music Box" (Francisco Tárrega)
  7. "Lagrima" (Tárrega)

Side two

  1. "El Huma Hua Queno"
  2. "Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert) – 2:42
  3. "Scherzino Mexicano" (Manuel María Ponce)
  4. "Manha de Carnaval (Theme from "Black Orpheus")" (Bonfa, Maria) – 1:41
  5. "Chancion Triste" – 2:38
  6. "To Be in Love" (Atkins, Jerry Reed)
  7. "I Feel Pretty" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 2:20

Personnel

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