Down Home (Chet Atkins album)

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Down Home
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Studio album by
Chet Atkins
ReleasedFebruary, 1962
Venue AJ Fletcher Theater
StudioChet Atkins
Melba Montgomery
Seals and Crofts
Zoot Sims
Joey Baron
Z. Z. Hill
Genre Blues
Jazz
Hard bop
Length28:55
Label RCA Victor LSP-2450 (Stereo)
Producer Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
(1962)		Down Home
(1962)		 Caribbean Guitar
(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. [1] It includes two of Chet's signature tunes, "Windy and Warm" and "Trambone".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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." [2]

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

Charts

Chart (1962)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs [1] 31

References

  1. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 13. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Ruhlman, William. "Down Home > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ AllMusic entry for reissue of Down Home and The Most Popular Guitar.
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