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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(1978)
  
First Nashville Guitar Quartet(1979)

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

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.

Contents

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

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

    Side two

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

    Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Les Paul – guitar

    • Songs

    1Limehouse Blues2:47
    2I Want to Be Happy!3:38
    3Over the Rainbow2:39

    References

    Guitar Monsters Wikipedia
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