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Released
  
1967

It's a Guitar World(1966)
  
Chet(1967)

Release date
  
1967

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

Length
  
31:15

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
RCA Victor

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Recorded
  
RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN

Producers
  
Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Felton Jarvis

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

It's a Guitar World is the title of a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1966.

Contents

Atkins serves up a mixture of late 1960s pop and world music. Harihar Rao adds sitar to "January in Bombay" and "Ranjana" with some interesting and also somewhat mystifying results. Recent hits by The Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey" and "What Now My Love" also get covered here. It reached #19 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No. 148 on the Pop Albums chart.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the reissue "This attractive LP from Chester Burton Atkins purports to leap international boundaries, but for the most part, he stays right home in Nashville."

Reissues

  • It's a Guitar World was reissued on CD along with My Favorite Guitars in 1995 on One Way Records.

    • Side one

    1. "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) – 2:13
    2. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) – 2:23
    3. "Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)" (Maurice Jarre) – 3:10
    4. "A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott) – 2:41
    5. "For No One" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:07

    Side two

    1. "Pickin' Nashville" (Joe Layne, Jimmy Wilkerson) – 2:21
    2. "January in Bombay" (Atkins) – 3:05
    3. "Ranjana" (Karihar Rao) – 2:20
    4. "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)" (Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë, Carl Sigman) – 3:15
    5. "'Na voce, 'na chitarra e'o poco 'e luna" (Ugo Calise, C. A. Rosa) – 2:22
    6. "Star-Time" (Leon Payne) – 2:15
    7. "Sempre" (Sonny Osborne) – 2:52

    Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Harihar Rao - sitar

    • Songs

    1What'd I Say2:12
    2Cast Your Fate to the Wind2:22
    3Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)3:06

    References

    It's a Guitar World Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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