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Almost Alone

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Released
  
May 1996

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Producer
  
Chet Atkins

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

Recorded
  
Nashville, TN

Release date
  
May 1996

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Almost Alone (1996)
  
The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World (1997)

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

Almost alone


Almost Alone is an album by Chet Atkins. He was 71 at the time of the album's release. It is almost all solo guitar instrumentals. "Jam Man" won the 1997 Grammy award for Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance.

Contents

Chet replaced the E and A normal guitar bass strings on a Gibson Country Gentleman guitar with thicker strings on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" to lower them an octave, giving a fuller bass accompaniment effect. There are no overdubs except for "Jam Man" and "You Do Something to Me". "Jam Man" uses a musical effect of the same name.

As part of the promotion for the release, Chet signed 125 Gibson Epiphone guitars that were given away in contests around the country.

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Track listing

All songs by Chet Atkins unless noted.

  1. "Big Foot" – 1:42
  2. "Waiting for Susie B." – 3:16
  3. "A Little Mark Musik" – 3:10
  4. "Jam Man" – 3:23
  5. "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" (Atkins, Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:00
  6. "Pu, Uana Hulu (Remembering Gabby)" (David Alapai) – 3:00
  7. "Happy Again" – 2:52
  8. "Sweet Alla Lee" – 2:53
  9. "Maybelle" – 3:11
  10. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 3:06
  11. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:16
  12. "You Do Something to Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:55
  13. "Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert) – 3:23

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins - guitar, vocals
  • Randy Goodrum - keyboards on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow"
  • Randy Howard - fiddle on "Sweet Alla Lee"
  • Paul Yandell - guitar on "Maybelle"
  • Bergen White - string arrangements
  • Nashville String Machine - strings

    • Songs

    1Big Foot1:43
    2Waiting for Susie B3:16
    3A Little Mark Musik3:10

    References

    Almost Alone Wikipedia
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