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Down Home (Chet Atkins album)

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Released
  
1962

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Producer
  
Chet Atkins

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
28:55

Release date
  
1962

Place recorded
  
Nashville

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Label
  
RCA Victor LSP-2450 (Stereo)

Down Home(1962)
  
Our Man in Nashville(1962)

Similar
  
Teen Scene, Progressive Pickin', Our Man in Nashville, Travelin', Chet Atkins at Home

Down Home is a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins.

Contents

After releasing the smooth pop and easy listening albums Chet Atkins' Workshop and The Most Popular Guitar, Chet returned to his roots with Down Home. The album peaked at No. 31 and returned Atkins to the Top 40. It includes two of Chet's signature tunes, "Windy and Warm" and "Trambone".

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "The contrast from his previous secular release couldn't have been more dramatic... Down Home outpolled The Most Popular Guitar by 88 places in the Billboard LP charts, returning him to the Top 40, which seemed to indicate that when you let Atkins do what he liked, his fans probably would like it too."

Reissues

  • Down Home was re-released on CD by One Way Records along with The Most Popular Guitar in 1995.

    • Side one

    1. "Salty Dog Rag" (Edward Crows, John Gordy) – 2:10
    2. "I Am a Pilgrim" (Merle Travis) – 3:03
    3. "Trambone" (Atkins) – 2:15
    4. "Steel Guitar Rag" (Leon McAuliffe) – 1:54
    5. "Little Feet" (Atkins) – 2:27
    6. "Blue Steel Blues" (Ted Daffan) – 2:19

    Side two

    1. "Windy and Warm" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:26
    2. "I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow" (Atkins, Charlie Louvin) – 2:32
    3. "Never on Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis, Billy Towne) – 3:01
    4. "The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" (Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) – 2:15
    5. "Give the World a Smile" (Otis Deaton, Marshall Yandell) – 2:04
    6. "Tuxedo Junction" (Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins) – 2:07

    Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Boots Randolph – saxophone
  • Charlie McCoy – harmonica
  • Bill Porter, Tommy Strong - engineer

    • References

    Down Home (Chet Atkins album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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