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Released
  
Mar 19, 2007

Length
  
51:19

Release date
  
19 March 2007

Recorded
  
1954 - 1956

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
él Records

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Eclectic Guitar (2007)
  
The Early Years 1946-1957 (2007)

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music, Jazz

Producers
  
Chet Atkins, Stephen H. Sholes

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

Eclectic Guitar is a compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 2007 on the El label.

Contents

History

The single disc contains 20 tracks from the three-year period of 1954 through 1956 representing Atkins' work in a variety of styles; mostly pop, jazz, and classical with very little country music. Most of the songs are solo performances.

The cover photo had been previously used for the 1961 reissue of A Session with Chet Atkins.

Track listing

  1. "Sunrise Serenade" (Carle) – 2:47
  2. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:41
  3. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 3:28
  4. "Mister Sandman" (Pat Ballard) – 2:18
  5. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:25
  6. "Minute Waltz" (Frédéric Chopin) – 1:47
  7. "Intermezzo" (Robert Henning, Heinz Provost) – 2:33
  8. "Minuet/Prelude" (Bach) – 2:30
  9. "Little Rock Getaway" (Carl Sigman, Joe Sullivan) – 2:19
  10. "Ochi Chornya (Dark Eyes)" (Traditional) – 2:46
  11. "La Golondrina" (Traditional) – 2:48
  12. "Indian Love Call" (Rudolf Friml, Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach) – 2:58
  13. "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 3:01
  14. "Alice Blue Gown" (Joseph McCarthy, Harry Tierney) – 2:22
  15. "Malaguena" (Ernesto Lecuona) – 2:48
  16. "Gavotte in D" (François Joseph Gossec) – 1:43
  17. "Waltz in A Flat" (Johannes Brahms) – 1:50
  18. "Adelita" (Tarrega) – 1:39
  19. "Petite Walz" (Traditional) – 2:50
  20. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) – 2:46

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Ray Edenton – guitar
  • Poppa John Gordy – piano, celeste
  • Buddy Harman – drums
  • Marvin Hughes – piano, celeste
  • Ernie Newton – bass
  • Dale Potter – fiddle

    • Songs

    1Sunrise Serenade2:47
    2Honeysuckle Rose2:42
    3Caravan3:28

    References

    Eclectic Guitar Wikipedia
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