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Alone (Chet Atkins album)

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Released
  
1973

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
RCA Records

Alone (1973)
  
Superpickers (1974)

Release date
  
1973

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

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Recorded
  
RCA "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

Alone is an album by guitarist Chet Atkins. It peaked at number 42 on the Billboard Country Album charts.

Contents

It was during the recording of this album that Chet was first diagnosed with colon cancer.

Almost alone


Reissues

  • In 1989, RCA/Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued Pickin' My Way, Chet Atkins in Hollywood and Alone in a double CD set.

    • Side one

    1. "Hawaiian Slack Key" – 2:35
    2. "The Claw" (Jerry Reed) – 2:16
    3. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 2:01
    4. "Flop Eared Mule and Other Classics"
    5. "Over the Waves" (Juventino Rosas) – 2:30
    6. "Just as I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:25

    Side two

    1. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) – 2:28
    2. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) – 2:42
    3. "Blue Finger" – 2:36
    4. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) – 2:30
    5. "Londonderry Air" (arrangement: Atkins) – 2:58
    6. "The Watkins Man" – 2:47

    Personnel

  • Chet Atkins - guitar, arrangements

    • Production notes

  • Paul Yandell – arrangement - with Chet Atkins ("The Watkins Man")
  • Jorge Morel – arrangement ("Take Five")
  • Bill Vandevort – engineer
  • Mike Shockley – recording technician
  • Jimmy Moore – cover photo

    • Songs

    1Hawaiian Slack Key2:36
    2The Claw2:16
    3Spanish Fandango2:01

    References

    Alone (Chet Atkins album) Wikipedia
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