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
Side one
- "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) – 2:13
- "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) – 2:23
- "Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)" (Maurice Jarre) – 3:10
- "A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott) – 2:41
- "For No One" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:07
Side two
- "Pickin' Nashville" (Joe Layne, Jimmy Wilkerson) – 2:21
- "January in Bombay" (Atkins) – 3:05
- "Ranjana" (Karihar Rao) – 2:20
- "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)" (Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë, Carl Sigman) – 3:15
- "'Na voce, 'na chitarra e'o poco 'e luna" (Ugo Calise, C. A. Rosa) – 2:22
- "Star-Time" (Leon Payne) – 2:15
- "Sempre" (Sonny Osborne) – 2:52
Personnel
Songs
1What'd I Say2:12
2Cast Your Fate to the Wind2:22
3Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)3:06