The Most Popular Guitar

The Most Popular Guitar
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released	May 1961
Recorded	Nashville, TN
Genre	Country, pop, jazz
Length	34:05
Label	RCA Victor LSP-2346 (Stereo)
Chet Atkins chronology

Last updated February 28, 2019

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The Most Popular Guitar is the fifteenth studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1961. It is an example of his highly orchestrated, smooth sound with lush strings and vocal choruses. While it did not top the chart action of his previous release Chet Atkins' Workshop, it spent ten weeks on the Billboard LP chart.

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.

Reissues

In 1995, The Most Popular Guitar was re-released on CD by One Way Records along with Down Home .^[2]

One Way Records was an independent record label based in Albany, New York that specialized in budget reissues of classic rock albums. In the 1990s, it gained business pressing reissues of those records that had "fallen through the cracks" in the transition in the music industry from vinyl to compact discs. Other labels that similarly filled this reissue niche were Collector's Pipeline, Rhino Records and Razor & Tie.

Down Home is the nineteenth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins.

Track listing

Side one

"It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:43
"My Dear Little Sweetheart" (Johnny Smith, George David Weiss) – 2:48
"Stay as Sweet as You Are" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 3:38
"Monte Carlo Melody" (Maurice Shapiro) – 2:30
"When Day Is Done" (Buddy DeSylva, Robert Katscher (de )) – 2:20
"My Prayer" (Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:22

Side two

"Rock-A-Bye-Bye" (Mann Curtis, Guy Wood) – 2:40
"Vanessa" (Bernie Wayne) – 3:57
"Intermezzo" (Robert Henning, Heinz Provost) – 3:04
"Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (Bronislau Kaper, Helen Deutsch) – 2:40
"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:28
"Goin' Home" (Atkins) – 2:53

Personnel

Chet Atkins – guitar

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[1] Allmusic review

[2] AllMusic entry for reissue of Down Home and The Most Popular Guitar.