Guitar Country

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Guitar Country
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Studio album by
Chet Atkins
Released1964
RecordedRCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length27:49
Label RCA Victor LPM 2783 (mono), LSP 2783 (Stereo)
Producer Bob Ferguson
Chet Atkins chronology
Reminiscing
(1964)		Guitar Country
(1964)		 Progressive Pickin'
(1964)

Guitar Country is the twenty-fourth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins. The album was a nominee for the 1964 Best Country & Western Album Grammy award, however it was beat out by Roger Miller's "Dang Me/ Chug-A-Lug". [1] The album stayed on the Country albums charts for 33 weeks, peaking at #1 in May 1964. [2] Prior to 1964, there was no separate genre chart for Country LPs, thus Chet's previous charting albums were on the Pop charts. Numerous future Atkins releases "crossed over" from the Country and Pop charts. The album did well on the pop charts too, reaching No. 112 in the US. [3]

Contents

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten) – 2:03
  2. "A Little Bit of Blues" (Jerry Reed) – 2:58
  3. "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) – 2:26
  4. "Dobro" (Atkins, Cy Coben) – 1:59
  5. "Kentucky" (Karl Davis) – 2:53
  6. "Vaya con Dios" (Larry Russell, Inez James, Buddy Pepper) – 2:23

Side two

  1. "Winter Walkin'" (Jerry Reed) – 2:01
  2. "Guitar Country" (Johnny Mercer, Willard Robison) – 2:39
  3. "Sugarfoot Rag" (Hank Garland, Vaughn Horton) – 2:01
  4. "Gone" (Smokey Rogers) – 2:01
  5. "Copper Kettle" (Albert F. Beddoe) – 2:10
  6. "Yes Ma'am" (Jerry Reed) – 2:15

Personnel

Production notes

Charts

Chart (1964)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs [3] 112

References

  1. ↑ "7th Annual GRAMMY Awards | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Chet Atkins | Biography, Music & News". Billboard. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  3. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 13. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Guitar Country > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.
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