Me and My Guitar (Chet Atkins album)

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Me and My Guitar
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Studio album by
Released1977
RecordedRCA's "Nashville Sound" Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length30:41
Label RCA Victor APL1-2405
Chet Atkins chronology
The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends
(1976)
Me and My Guitar
(1977)
Chet Floyd & Danny
(1977)
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Me and My Guitar is the forty-eighth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It was nominated for the Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance Grammy in 1978. Atkins joined Floyd Cramer and Danny Davis that same year to produce Chet Floyd & Danny which was also nominated.

Contents

Lenny Breau appears on "Long, Long Ago" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To".

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Cascade" (Gene Slone) – 2:23
  2. "West Memphis Serenade" (Bobby Braddock)– 2:35
  3. "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Bayly) – 2:53
  4. "All Thumbs" (Mark Casstevens) – 2:20
  5. "Vincent (Don McLean) – 3:12
  6. "Me and My Guitar" (James Taylor) – 2:40

Side two

  1. "Struttin'" (Jerry Reed) – 2:31
  2. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 3:10
  3. "David's Dance" (Odell Martin) – 3:07
  4. "A Song for Anna" (Andre Popp) – 2:42
  5. "My Little Waltz" (Atkins, John Knowles) – 2:25

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 13.
  3. AllMusic entry for reissue of Me and My Guitar and First Nashville Guitar Quartet.