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A Session with Chet Atkins

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Released
  
December 1954

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
RCA Victor

Length
  
33:09

Release date
  
December 1954

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

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A Session with Chet Atkins (1954)
  
Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (1955)

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

A Session with Chet Atkins is the title of a recording 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.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic music critic Richard S. Ginell praised the album and wrote "With a roomful of crack Nashville session men, Chet Atkins' first 12-inch album is one joyful, yet sophisticated and controlled compilation of mostly standard pop and jazz tunes all decked out country-style."

Side one

  1. "South" (Ray Charles, T. Hayes, Bennie Moten) – 2:45
  2. "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 3:20
  3. "Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 2:35
  4. "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" (George Brown, Peter DeRose) – 2:40
  5. "Red Wing" (Kerry Mills) – 2:22
  6. "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:32

Side two

  1. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 3:25
  2. "Corrine, Corrina" (Chatmon, Mitchell Parish, J. Mayo Williams) – 2:20
  3. "The Birth of the Blues" (Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 3:20
  4. "A Gay Ranchero" (J. J. Espinosa, Francia Luban) – 2:35
  5. "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 2:35
  6. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:40

A 2-EP gatefold with the red cover was released in 1955. The tracks were:

  1. "South"
  2. "Alabama Jubilee"
  3. "The Birth of the Blues"
  4. "A Gay Ranchero"
  5. "Have You Ever Been Lonely"
  6. "Frankie and Johnny"

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Dale Potter – fiddle
  • Bud Isaacs – pedal steel guitar
  • Ray Edenton – rhythm guitar
  • John Gordy – piano, celesta
  • Jerry Byrd – lap steel guitar
  • Henry "Homer" Haynes – guitar
  • Kenneth "Jethro" Burns – mandolin
  • Buddy Harman – drums
  • Bob Moore – bass

    • Songs

    1South2:48
    2(Back Home Again In) Indiana3:20
    3Alabama Jubilee2:34

    References

    A Session with Chet Atkins Wikipedia
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