Down Home (Chet Atkins album)

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Down Home
Down Home Chet Atkins.jpg
Studio album by
Chet Atkins
Released1962
Recorded Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length28:55
Label RCA Victor LSP-2450 (Stereo)
Producer Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Caribbean Guitar
(1962)		Down Home
(1962)		 Our Man in Nashville
(1962)

Down Home is the nineteenth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins.

Contents

After releasing the smooth pop and easy listening albums Chet Atkins' Workshop and The Most Popular Guitar, Chet returned to his roots with Down Home. The album peaked at No. 31 and returned Atkins to the Top 40. It includes two of Chet's signature tunes, "Windy and Warm" and "Trambone".

Reception

Professional ratings
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Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "The contrast from his previous secular release couldn't have been more dramatic... Down Home outpolled The Most Popular Guitar by 88 places in the Billboard LP charts, returning him to the Top 40, which seemed to indicate that when you let Atkins do what he liked, his fans probably would like it too." [1]

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Salty Dog Rag" (Edward Crowe, John Gordy) – 2:10
  2. "I Am a Pilgrim" (Merle Travis) – 3:03
  3. "Trambone" (Atkins) – 2:15
  4. "Steel Guitar Rag" (Leon McAuliffe) – 1:54
  5. "Little Feet" (Atkins) – 2:27
  6. "Blue Steel Blues" (Ted Daffan) – 2:19

Side two

  1. "Windy and Warm" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:26
  2. "I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow" (Atkins, Charlie Louvin) – 2:32
  3. "Never on Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis, Billy Towne) – 3:01
  4. "Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" (Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) – 2:15
  5. "Give the World a Smile" (Otis Deaton, Marshall Yandell) – 2:04
  6. "Tuxedo Junction" (Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins) – 2:07

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Ruhlman, William. "Down Home > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ AllMusic entry for reissue of Down Home and The Most Popular Guitar.
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