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Solo Flights

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Released
  
1968

Label
  
RCA Victor

Genre
  
Country, pop

Solo Flights (1968)
  
Lover's Guitar (1969)

Recorded
  
RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN

Solo Flights is the title of a recording by Chet Atkins. Side one of this album features Atkins' experiment with the "Octabass Guitar," where he replaced the two low strings (the E and A strings) with heavier strings in order to drop an octave and create a fuller sound with bass.

Contents

This album was reissued on CD for the first time, in Japan only, on April 22, 2009

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "All told, this is one of Atkins' more pleasing collections from that era."

Side one

  1. "Drive In" (Rich) 2:15
  2. "Three Little Words" (Burt Kalmar, Harry Ruby) 2:35
  3. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) 3:25
  4. "Chet's Tune" (Cohen) 2:18
  5. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) 2:12
  6. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) 3:10

Side two

  1. "Cindy Oh Cindy" (Robert Barron, Burt Long) 2:25
  2. "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Ned Washington, Leigh Harline) 2:46
  3. "Music to Watch Girls By" (Sid Ramin, Tony Velona) 2:30
  4. "Choro da Saudade" (Agustín Barrios) 2:37
  5. "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (Milton Kellem) 2:05
  6. "Georgy Girl" (Jim Dale, Tom Springfield) 2:45

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar

    • References

    Solo Flights Wikipedia
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