My Favorite Guitars (Chet Atkins album)

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My Favorite Guitars
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Studio album by
Chet Atkins
Released1964
RecordedRCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country, pop
Length29:06
Label RCA Victor LSP-3316 (Stereo) LPM-3316 (Mono)
Producer Bob Ferguson
Chet Atkins chronology
The Best of Chet Atkins
(1964)		My Favorite Guitars
(1964)		 More of That Guitar Country
(1965)
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My Favorite Guitars is the twenty-sixth studio album by Chet Atkins. The guitars referred to are Atkins' signature Gretsch "Country Gentleman" electric guitar, a Brazilian Del Vecchio (guitar maker) resonator guitar presented to him by Los Indios Tabajaras , and a Spanish Juan Estruch classical guitar, all visible on the LP cover photo. It is another example of Atkins' 1960s easy-going, easy-listening guitar playing.

Contents

The album peaked at No. 86 on Cash Box, during a four-week stay on the chart. [3]

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Levee Walking" (Jerry Reed Hubbard, Henry Strzelecki) – 1:56
  2. "Wimoweh" (Campbell) – 2:45
  3. "One Note Samba" (Hendricks, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) – 2:04
  4. "Moon of Manakoora" (Frank Loesser, Alfred Newman) – 2:09
  5. "Travelin'" (James Arnold Miller) – 2:18
  6. "Say It With Soul" (Fred Carter, Jr.) – 2:45

Side two

  1. "Josephine" (Burke Bivens, Gus Kahn, Wayne King) – 2:06
  2. "Rose Ann" (Jerry Reed) – 2:20
  3. "Sukiyaki" (Hashida Naramura Rokusuke) – 2:28
  4. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 2:18
  5. "El Vaquero" (Atkins, Wayne Moss) – 2:07
  6. "Chopin Waltz No. 10 in B Minor" (Frédéric Chopin; arranged by Chet Atkins) – 3:50

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1965)Peak
position
US Cashbox Top LPs [3] 86

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (July 31, 1965). "Chet Atkins: My Favourite Guitars" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 229. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 12. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
  4. ↑ AllMusic entry for reissue of My Favorite Guitars and It's a Guitar World.
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