Superpickers

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Released 1974 Length 31:14 Release date 1974 Genre Country music		Recorded Nashville, TN Artist Chet Atkins Label RCA Records Producers Bob Ferguson, Chet Atkins

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Superpickers is an album by guitarist Chet Atkins and top recording session players in Nashville, TN.

"Fiddlin' Around" reached No. 75 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "Atkins joins together with an A-list of Nashville session musicians for a set of picking extravaganzas... Atkins himself is goaded into some wonderful playing as a result, and Superpickers is one of his best albums."

Reissues

Superpickers was reissued on CD in 1998 along with Picks on the Hits by One Way Records.

Side one

"Paramaribo" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:27
"Fiddlin' Around" (Johnny Gimble) – 3:06
"Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:35
"Beef and Biscuits" (Mat Camison) – 2:35
"Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) – 2:44

Side two

"Just Another Rag" (Atkins, Jerry Reed Hubbard) – 2:38
"Canadian Pacific" (Ray Griff) – 3:50
"City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman) – 3:26
"Bells of Saint Mary's" (Doug Tringer) – 2:51
"Are You from Dixie ('Cause I'm from Dixie Too)" (George L. Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 3:02