Me and Jerry

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Released 1970 Label RCA Artists Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed Genres Country music, Pop music		Length 26:08 Me & Jerry(1970) Down Home(1970) Release date 1970 Producers Bob Ferguson, Chet Atkins

Recorded RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, Tennessee Awards Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance Similar Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

Me & Jerry is the first duet studio album by Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, released in 1970. Consisting of pop, country and standards, this collaboration won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. Chet is on the left and Jerry on the right (standing up).

Reception

In his review for Allmusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote of the album; "virtuosity is always more appealing when it doesn't call attention to itself, a trap Atkins and Reed always avoid here. The two simply lay back and play, trading lines and licks with an easy grace, having so much fun that it's impossible to not share in their joy."

Reissues

In 1998, Me & Jerry and Me & Chet were reissued on CD by One Way Records.

Side one

"Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood) – 3:05
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" (Paul Simon) – 3:06
"MacArthur Park" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:45
"Ol' Man River" (Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) – 2:52
"Nut Sundae" (Jerry Reed Hubbard) – 2:37

Side two

"Cannonball Rag" (Merle Travis) – 2:13
"Wreck of the John B" – 2:55
"Stumpwater" (Hubbard) – 2:15
"The January February March" (Hubbard) – 2:48
"Something" (George Harrison) – 2:14

Personnel

Chet Atkins – guitar

Jerry Reed – guitar

Songs

1Tennessee Stud3:11
2Bridge Over Troubled Water3:11
3MacArthur Park2:49

References

Me & Jerry Wikipedia

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