My Favorite Guitars (Chet Atkins album)

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My Favorite Guitars
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Studio album by
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

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

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (31 July 1965). "Chet Atkins: My Favourite Guitars" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 229. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  3. AllMusic entry for reissue of My Favorite Guitars and It's a Guitar World.