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Released
  
1957

Chet Atkins at Home(1957)
  
Hi Fi in Focus(1957)

Release date
  
1957

Label
  
Hallmark Records

Recorded
  
Nashville, TN

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Producer
  
Chet Atkins

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Genres
  
Country music, Pop music, Classical music

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

Chet Atkins at Home is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It contains his clever arrangement of Yankee Doodle played at the same time as Dixie.

Contents

Atkins is pictured on the cover in his home studio in Nashville. He was often dissatisfied with his performances in the RCA studios and would take the already recorded rhythm tracks home with him to perfect his guitar part in his own studio.

An EP with the same title and cover (RCA records #4194) was released including "Say Si Si", "Vilia", "Yankee Doodle Dixie" and "You're Just in Love".

Reception

Music critic Richard S. Ginnell, writing for Allmusic, stated that "the record still sounds timeless for its musical beauty and taste, as well as a catholic repertoire that now falls completely outside the boundaries of Nashville country."

Reissues

  • Chet Atkins at Home was released as Chet Atkins at Home... Plus with nine bonus tracks on the Universe label in March 2008.

    • Side one

    1. "Say "Si Si"" (Ernesto Lecuona, Francia Luban, Al Stillman)
    2. "Vilja" (Franz Lehár)
    3. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish)
    4. "Ay Ay Ay" (Traditional)
    5. "Nagasaki" (Mort Dixon, Harry Warren)
    6. "Yankee Doodle Dixie" (Atkins)

    Side two

    1. "April in Portugal" (Raúl Ferrão, José Gilhardo, Jimmy Kennedy)
    2. "Jungle Drums" (Ernesto Lecuona)
    3. "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" (Billy Hill)
    4. "Martha" (Traditional)
    5. "Czardas" (Vittorio Monti)
    6. "You're Just in Love" (Irving Berlin)

    Chet Atkins at Home... Plus bonus tracks:

    1. "Don't Blame Me"
    2. "Muskrat Ramble"
    3. "Yankee Doodle Dixie" (EP version)
    4. "Asleep in the Deep"
    5. "Out of Nowhere"
    6. "Even Tho'"
    7. "When the Day is Done"
    8. ""I'll be with You in Apple Blossom Time"
    9. "Swanee River"

    Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar

    • Songs

    1Say 'Si Si'2:13
    2Vilia2:10
    3Sophisticated Lady2:48

    References

    Chet Atkins at Home Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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