Guitar Monsters

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Released 1978 Artists Les Paul, Chet Atkins Producer Bob Ferguson Genres Country music, Jazz		Length 31:16 Release date 1978 Label Legacy Recordings

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Guitar Monsters is an album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul, released in 1978. It is their second collaboration, after their Grammy Award-winning release Chester & Lester.

At the Grammy Awards of 1978, Guitar Monsters was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell recalled the success of the duo's first collaboration and wrote of this album "the results are just about as marvelous."

Reissues

Guitar Monsters and Chester and Lester were released on CD in 1989 by Pair Records as Masters of the Guitar: Together with some tracks omitted.

Both albums were re-released with the two albums intact on one CD in 1998 by One Way Records.

Side one

"Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) - 2:50
"I Want to be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) - 3:41
"Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:41
"Meditation" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 2:32
"Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin ) - 3:01
"I'm Your Greatest Fan" - 3:49

Side two

"It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 2:58
"I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) - 4:04
"Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Russell) - 2:41
"Give My Love to Nell" (Traditional) - 2:53
"Hot Toddy" (Ralph Flanagan) - 3:00