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| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | Nashville, TN | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 31:14 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Bob Ferguson, Chet Atkins | |||
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Superpickers is a 1974 album by guitarist Chet Atkins and top recording session players in Nashville,TN.
"Fiddlin' Around" reached No. 75 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.
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| Allmusic | (no rating) [1] |
Writing for Allmusic,critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "Atkins joins together with an A-list of Nashville session musicians for a set of picking extravaganzas... Atkins himself is goaded into some wonderful playing as a result,and Superpickers is one of his best albums." [1]
Chester Burton Atkins,known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman",was an American musician who,along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson,helped create the Nashville sound,the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily a guitarist,but he also played the mandolin,fiddle,banjo,and ukulele,and occasionally sang.
My Kind of Country is the eighth studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire,released October 15,1984. It was her second studio album for MCA Records. My Kind of Country peaked at No. 13 on Billboard's Country Music Albums chart. Two tracks from the album rose to No. 1 on the Country Singles chart:"How Blue" and "Somebody Should Leave".
Any Day Now is the ninth studio album by Joan Baez,released as double LP in 1968 and made up exclusively of Bob Dylan songs. It peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.
My Tennessee Mountain Home is the eleventh solo studio album by Dolly Parton. It was released on April 2,1973,by RCA Victor. The house pictured on the album cover was the house in which the Parton family lived during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World is an album by American guitarist Chet Atkins and Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel. Recorded when Atkins was 73,this was his last release of original material in the 20th century. "Smokey Mountain Lullaby" was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Award for Country Instrumental Performance.
John Paul Gimble was an American country musician associated with Western swing. Gimble was considered one of the most important fiddlers in the genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 in the early influences category as a member of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.
A Session with Chet Atkins is the third studio album recorded by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It features Atkins introducing standard pop and jazz melded with country sensibilities. The liner notes state this is the first use of a celeste on a country record. The musicians include Homer and Jethro in the rhythm section. Atkins uses his new EchoSonic amplifier for the first time on his recordings.
Sneakin' Around is a collaborative album by American guitarists Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed,released in 1991. Reed and Atkins had done a series of recording collaborations nearly 20 years before this release. It peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard Country Albums charts.
C.G.P. is the fifty-fifth studio album by Chet Atkins. It was released in 1988 by Columbia Records. The initials in the title refer to the Atkins-coined title "Certified Guitar Player",a moniker he assigned not only to himself but other guitarists he admired and felt contributed to the legacy of guitar playing.
Our Man in Nashville is the twentieth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins,released in 1963. RCA did a series of "Our Man in ..." and Chet was indeed their man in Nashville. He was producing and developing the "Nashville sound".
Solo Flights is the thirty-sixth studio album by Chet Atkins. Side one of this album features Atkins' experiment with the "Octabass Guitar," where he replaced the two low strings with heavier strings in order to drop an octave and create a fuller sound with bass.
Strung Up is a studio album by The Nashville String Band. The band consisted of Chet Atkins and Homer and Jethro.
World's Greatest Melodies is an album by The Nashville String Band. The band consisted of Chet Atkins and Homer and Jethro.
Jazz From the Hills is an album by American guitarist Chet Atkins and The Country All-Stars. It is a reissue of sessions from 1952–1956.
The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville,Tennessee,USA,who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s,1960s,and early 1970s. They backed dozens of popular singers,including Elvis Presley,Eddy Arnold,Patsy Cline,Jim Reeves,Bob Dylan,Moon Mullican,Jerry Lee Lewis,Brenda Lee,and others.
Guitar Legend:The RCA Years is a two-disc compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. The 50 tracks included here focus on his first recordings in 1947 to the 1977 release Nashville Guitar Quartet.
The Early Years 1946–1957 is a five-disc compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins,released in 2007.
The Best of Chet Atkins &Friends is a compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins,released in 1976. It peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Country Albums charts in 1977.
Pass the Chicken &Listen is an album by The Everly Brothers,released in 1972. It was the last studio recording the brothers made for over 10 years.
The Guitar Genius is the twenty-second studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins,released in 1963. It was reissued on CD in 1999. It was also reissued on CD along with And His Guitar in 2004. Five vocal tracks by Atkins' brother Jim were from an unreleased 1958 album to be titled My Brother Sings. That album was later released in 2015.
