The Best of Chet on the Road — Live

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The Best of Chet on the Road — Live
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Live album by Chet Atkins
Released 1980
Recorded Olympia Theatre, Paris, France and Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Label RCA Victor
Producer Chet Atkins, Ray Stevens
Chet Atkins chronology
Reflections
(1980) Reflections1980		The Best of Chet on the Road - Live
(1980)		 Country After All These Years
(1981) Country After All These Years1981
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The Best of Chet on the Road — Live is a live album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1980.

Chet Atkins American guitarist and record producer

Chester Burton Atkins, known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician, occasional vocalist, songwriter, and record producer, who along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, among others, created the country music style that came to be known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country music's appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily known as a guitarist. He also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "This String" (Coben) – 3:40
  2. "Dance With Me" (Johanna Hall - John Hall) – 3:51
  3. "Blind Willie" (Kalb) – 3:16
  4. "Stars and Stripes Forever" (John Philip Sousa) – 3:28
  5. "Medley: Freight Train/Chattanooga Train" (Dadi) – 3:18

Side two

  1. "Wheels" (Torres - Stephens) – 1:52
  2. "Blue Angel" (Lima) – 2:07
  3. "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" (Atkins) – 3:58
  4. "Something/Lady Madonna" (George Harrison/ Lennon & McCartney) – 1:50
  5. "When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 3:18
  6. "Bill Cheatham" (Trad. arr. Atkins - Foster) – 2:56

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Steven Noel Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records. He has also charted more than fifty singles on the Billboard country singles charts, including ten Number One hits: "All Roads Lead to You", "Some Fools Never Learn", "You Can Dream of Me", "Life's Highway", "Small Town Girl", "The Weekend", "Lynda", "Where Did I Go Wrong", and "I Got Dreams", and "What If I Said", a duet with Anita Cochran from her album Back to You. Three of his studio albums have been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipping 500,000 copies in the United States.

Marcel Dadi French musician

Marcel Dadi was a Tunisian-born Jewish French guitarist known for his finger-picking style which faithfully recreated the instrumental styles of American guitarists such as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed. He became a personal friend of country star Chet Atkins.

Production notes

Chart performance

Chart (1980) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 43

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