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Mister Guitar

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Released
  
October 1959

Producer
  
Chet Atkins

Release date
  
October 1959

Place recorded
  
Nashville

Length
  
24:43

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
RCA Victor

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

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Mister Guitar (1959)
  
After the Riot at Newport (1960)

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

Mister Guitar is the title of a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1959. That title, as well as "Country Gentleman", became names assigned to Chet.

Contents

"Country Gentleman", co-written with Boudleaux Bryant, was a minor hit for Atkins in 1953. That original version was recorded in a garage. The liner notes are by David Halberstam, then writing for The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reissues

  • Mister Guitar was packaged with Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions and released on CD in 1998 by One Way Records.
  • In 2002, Mister Guitar was reissued with Chet Atkins' Workshop by Classic Compact Disc (Disc 2103).

    • Side one

    1. "I Know That You Know" (Anne Caldwell, Vincent Youmans) – 1:53
    2. "Rainbow" (Alfred Bryan, Percy Wenrich) – 2:27
    3. "Hello Bluebird" (Cliff Friend) – 2:06
    4. "Siesta" (Atkins, James Rich) – 2:10
    5. "Country Style" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:02
    6. "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 2:06

    Side two

    1. "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (John Kellette, James Kendis, James Brockman, Nat Vincent) – 1:30
    2. "Backwoods" (James Rich) – 2:09
    3. "Country Gentleman" (Atkins, Boudleaux Bryant) – 1:53
    4. "Slinkey" (Atkins) – 1:59
    5. "Jessie" (Traditional) – 1:44
    6. "Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – 2:27

    Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar

    • Songs

    1I Know That You Know
    2Rainbow
    3Hello Bluebird

    References

    Mister Guitar Wikipedia
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