Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
by Chet Atkins
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 4 April 2000
- Label: Buddha Records
- Country: United States
- Length: 2:01:59
- Community rating: 3.77/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A two-CD Buddha Records set of Chet Atkins' RCA recordings, fifty tracks from 1947 to 1977 with liner notes by Rich Kienzle. It documents the guitarist's fingerstyle technique and his parallel career as the Nashville Sound's defining producer.
Genres
Descriptors: guitars, instrumental, virtuosic, melodic, acoustic
Tracklist
- Canned Heat (2:31)
- The Nashville Jump (2:30)
- Dizzy Strings (2:40)
- Telling My Troubles To My Old Guitar (2:43)
- Dance Of The Goldenrod (2:38)
- Galloping On The Guitar (2:26)
- Centipede Boogie (2:38)
- Main Street Breakdown (2:14)
- Indian Love Call - (From the musical production "Rose-Marie") (2:36)
- Mountain Melody (2:07)
- The Jitterbug Waltz (2:34)
- Rainbow (2:34)
- Nobody's Sweetheart (2:11)
- Chinatown, My Chinatown (1:57)
- Fiddle Patch (2:16)
- When It's Darkness On The Delta (2:44)
- High Rockin Swing (2:17)
- Guitars On Parade (2:18)
- Oh By Jingo! (Oh My Gee, You're The Only Girl For Me) (2:11)
- The Bells Of St. Mary's (2:10)
- Country Gentleman (2:12)
- Memphis Blues (2:08)
- Downhill Drag (2:19)
- Ballin' The Jack (2:54)
- Silver Bell (2:13)
- Mister Sandman (2:17)
- New Spanish Two-Step (2:09)
- The Poor People Of Paris (Jean's Song) (1:56)
- Tweedlee Dee (2:22)
- (The Wallflower) Dance With Me, Henry (2:20)
- Blue Ocean Echo (2:17)
- Trambone (2:10)
- Dig These Blues (2:21)
- Yesterdays (2:18)
- Walk, Don't Run (2:23)
- Hot Toddy (2:22)
- Slinkey (2:01)
- Frankie And Johnny (3:34)
- Windy And Warm (2:26)
- Early Times (2:37)
- Satan's Doll (3:49)
- So Rare (3:00)
- Yakety Axe (2:02)
- Blue Angel (2:23)
- Steeplechase Lane (2:21)
- Black Mountain Rag (2:33)
- Take Five (2:40)
- Blue Finger (2:35)
- Cascade (2:24)
- Carolina Shout (2:38)
Credits
- Joanne Feltman - research [archives]
- Michael Panico - research [archives]
- Mandana Eidgah - supervised by [project manager]
- Jack Shook - guitar, rhythm guitar
- Marvin Hughes - piano, organ, piano, celesta
- Marty Gold - piano, organ
- Dale Potter - fiddle, written-by
- Jerry Byrd - steel guitar
- Pete Ciccone - art direction, design
- Jeremy Holiday - coordinator [project coordination], liner notes [annotation]
- Rich Kienzle - liner notes, producer [for buddha]
- Elliott Federman - mastered by
- Rob Santos - producer [for buddha]
- Bob Ferguson - producer [original recordings]
- Steve Sholes - producer [original recordings]
- Glenn Korman - producer [production assistance]
- Mike Ragogna - producer [production assistance]
- Richard Weize - producer [production assistance]
- Tom Tierney - producer [production assistance]
- Lowell Tennis - written-by
- Don Weston - written-by
- John H. Tower - written-by
- Oscar Hammerstein II - written-by
- Otto Harbach - written-by
- Rudolf Friml - written-by
- Mel Foree - written-by
- Fats Waller - written-by
- Alfred Bryan - written-by
- Percy Wenrich - written-by
- Billy Meyers - written-by
- Elmer Schoebel - written-by
- Ernie Erdman - written-by
- Gus Kahn - written-by
- Jean Schwartz - written-by
- William Jerome - written-by
- Al Neiburg - written-by
- Jerry Livingston - written-by
- Marty Symes - written-by
- Archie Tennant - written-by
- Joe Avants - written-by
- Harry Von Tilzer - written-by
- Lew Brown - written-by
- A. Emmett Adams - written-by
- Douglas Furber - written-by
- Boudleaux Bryant - written-by
- W. C. Handy - written-by
- Chris Smith - written-by
- Jim Burris - written-by
- Edward Madden - written-by
- Pat Ballard - written-by
- Bob Wills - written-by
- Tommy Duncan - written-by
- Marguerite Monnot - written-by
- Winfield Scott - written-by
- Jamesetta Hawkins - written-by
- Phyllis Otis - written-by
- Chatman Brothers - written-by
- James Marshall - written-by
- Johnny "Happy" Green - written-by
- Jerome Kern - written-by