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The Night Atlanta Burned

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Released
  
1975

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
RCA Records

Length
  
27:15

Release date
  
1975

Producers
  
Bob Ferguson, Chet Atkins

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Recorded
  
RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN

The Night Atlanta Burned (1975)
  
Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies (1976)

Genres
  
Country music, Bluegrass, Folk music

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

The Night Atlanta Burned is an album by Chet Atkins and is credited to "The Atkins String Co." — a quartet including Chet, Johnny Gimble, Paul Yandell and Lisa Silver. The album is a fusion of classical musical techniques with country, folk and bluegrass.

Contents

The liner notes are by John D. Loudermilk who discusses the burning of Atlanta and the Atlanta Conservatory of Music during the American Civil War.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "With all the hype about the Yo-Yo Ma/Mark O'Connor/Edgar Meyer Appalachia Waltz projects of the 1990s, it's enlightening to discover the seeds of that classical/country/bluegrass fusion right here, some 20 years ahead of the game."

Reissues

  • The Night Atlanta Burned was re-released on CD in 2007 packaged with The First Nashville Guitar Quartet on Raven Records.

    • Side one

    1. "Sonora" (John D. Loudermilk) – 3:20
    2. "Mostly Mozart" (Mozart) – 3:51
    3. "Bill Cheatham" (Traditional) – 2:41
    4. "San Antonio Stroll" (Noah) – 2:46
    5. "To Ann" (Loudermilk) – 2:05

    Side two

    1. "The Night Atlanta Burned" (Loudermilk) – 2:16
    2. "Carnavalito" (Zaldivar) – 3:12
    3. "The Women of Ireland" (Traditional) – 2:28
    4. "Scotland" (Monroe) – 2:33
    5. "Odd Folks of Okracoke" (Loudermilk) – 2:03

    Personnel

  • Chet Atkins - guitar
  • Johnny Gimble - mandolin
  • Paul Yandell - guitar
  • Lisa Silver - violin, viola

    • Production notes

  • Produced by Bob Ferguson and Chet Atkins
  • Engineered by Chuck Seitz and Bill Vandervert
  • Technicians: Al Patchucki, George Bennett, Bubba Campbell

    • References

    The Night Atlanta Burned Wikipedia
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