It's a Guitar World

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It's a Guitar World
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Studio album by
Chet Atkins
Released1967
RecordedRCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country, pop
Length31:15
Label RCA Victor LSP-3728 (Stereo), LPM-3728 (Mono)
Producer Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Felton Jarvis
Chet Atkins chronology
Music from Nashville, My Home Town
(1966)		It's a Guitar World
(1967)		 Chet
(1967)

It's a Guitar World is the thirty-first studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1966.

Contents

Atkins serves up a mixture of late 1960s pop and world music. Harihar Rao adds sitar to "January in Bombay" and "Ranjana" with some interesting and also somewhat mystifying results. Recent hits by The Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey" and "What Now My Love" also get covered here. It reached No. 19 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No. 148 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the reissue "This attractive LP from Chester Burton Atkins purports to leap international boundaries, but for the most part, he stays right home in Nashville." [2]

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) – 2:13
  2. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) – 2:23
  3. "Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)" (Maurice Jarre) – 3:10
  4. "A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott) – 2:41
  5. "For No One" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:07

Side two

  1. "Pickin' Nashville" (Joe Layne, Jimmy Wilkerson) – 2:21
  2. "January in Bombay" (Atkins) – 3:05
  3. "Ranjana" (Harihar Rao) – 2:20
  4. "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)" (Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë, Carl Sigman) – 3:15
  5. "'Na voce, 'na chitarra e'o poco 'e luna" (Ugo Calise, C. A. Rosa) – 2:22
  6. "Star-Time" (Leon Payne) – 2:15
  7. "Sempre" (Sonny Osborne) – 2:52

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1967)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs [1] 148
US Billboard Top Country LPs 19

References

  1. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 13. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Ginell, Richard S. "It's a Guitar World > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ AllMusic entry for reissue of My Favorite Guitars and It's a Guitar World.
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