Chet Atkins › The Early Years 1946-1957 (5-CD Box Set)

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 5
Released: July 16, 2007
Label: Jsp Records

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Guitar Blues (Picking the Blue)
2.Brown Eyes
3.Ain'tcha Tired of Makin' Me Blue
4.I'm Gonna Get Tight
5.Canned Heat
6.Standing Room Only
7.Don't Hand Me That Line
8.Bug Dance
9.(I Know My Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way
10.The Nashville Jump
11.My Guitar Is My Sweetheart
12.I'm Pickin' the Blues
13.Gone, Gone, Gone
14.Barnyard Shuffle
15.Save Your Money
16.(I May Be Color Blind But) I Know When I'm Blue
17.I've Been Working on the Guitar
18.Dizzy Strings
19.Money, Marbles and Chalk
20.Wednesday Night Waltz
21.Guitar Waltz
22.Tellin' My Troubles to My Old Guitar
23.Dance of the Goldenrod
24.Galloping on the Guitar
25.Barber Shop Rag
26.Centipede Boogie
27.Under the Hickory Nut Tree
28.I Was Bitten by the Same Bug Twice
29.One More Chance
30.The Old Buck Dance

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Boogie Man Boogie
2.Main Street Breakdown
3.Confusin'
4.Music in My Heart
5.Indian Love Call
6.Birth of the Blues
7.Mountain Melody
8.You're Always Brand New
9.My Crazy Heart
10.Hybrid Corn
11.Jitterbug Waltz
12.One Man Boogie
13.Crazy Rhythm
14.Crazy Rhythm
15.Rustic Dance
16.Rainbow
17.In the Mood
18.Spanish Fandango
19.Midnight
20.Good-Bye Blues
21.Your Mean Little Heart
22.Sweet Bunch of Daisies
23.Blue Gypsy
24.The Third Man Theme
25.St. Louis Blues
26.Nobody's Sweetheart
27.Lover Come Back to Me
28.Stephen Foster Melody
29.Hangover Blues
30.Imagination
31.Black Mountain Rag
32.Guitar Polka

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Dream Train
2.Meet Mister Callaghan
3.Chinatown, My Chinatown
4.High Rockin' Swing
5.Pig Leaf Rag
6.Oh by Jingo
7.Hello Ma Baby
8.The Bells of St. Mary's
9.Country Gentlemen
10.Memphis Blues
11.Alice Blue Gown
12.Twelfth Street Rag
13.Peeping Tom
14.Three O'Clock in the Morning
15.Georgia Camp Meeting
16.City Slicker
17.Dill Pickle Rag
18.Rubber Doll Rag
19.Beautiful Ohio
20.Kentucky Derby
21.Wildwood Flower
22.Guitars on Parade
23.Simple Simon
24.Get Up and Go
25.Pagan Love Song
26.Beautiful Ohio
27.Downhill Drag
28.Avalon
29.Sunrise Serenade
30.San Antonio Rose
31.Set a Spell
32.Mister Misery

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.Get Up and Go
2.South
3.Alabama Jubilee
4.Corinne, Corinna
5.Indiana
6.Red Wing
7.Frankie and Johnnie
8.A Gay Ranchero
9.Ballin' the Jack
10.Honeysuckle Rose
11.Darktown Strutters Ball
12.The Old Spinning Wheel
13.Silver Bell
14.Under the Double Eagle
15.The Birth of the Blues
16.Have You Ever Been Lonely
17.Caravan
18.Old Man River
19.Mister Sandman
20.New Spanish Two Step
21.Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
22.Dance with Me Henry
23.Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
24.Tweedle Dee
25.Hey Mr Guitar
26.Unchained Melody
27.Blues in the Night
28.Somebody Stole My Gal
29.Shine on Harvest Moon
30.Intermezzo
31.Tenderly

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.Minute Waltz
2.Minuet
3.Sch?n Rosmarien
4.Tip Toe Through the Tulips
5.Arkansas Traveler
6.Little Rock Getaway
7.Ochi Chornya
8.Londonderry Air
9.Golondrina, La
10.Black Mountain Rag
11.Cecilia
12.Poor People of Paris
13.Honey
14.The Lady Loves Me
15.Memphis Blues
16.Oh by Jingo
17.Hello Ma Baby
18.Indian Love Call
19.Alice Blue Gown
20.Third Man Theme
21.Blue Gypsy
22.St. Louis Blues
23.Dance of the Golden Rod
24.Gavotte in D
25.Malaguena
26.Glow Worm
27.In the Mood
28.Heartaches
29.Swedish Rhapsody
30.Waltz in A Flat
31.Adelita
32.Petite Waltz
33.Liza

Product Description:

Chet Atkins: Colleen And Donna Wilson (The Beaver Valley Sweethearts), D Dill, The Beasley Singers, 'Sister' Billie Rose Atkins, Midred Kirkham, 'Red' Kirk (vocals); R Lanham, H Ray Bradley, James Atkins, Ray Edenton (guitar); 'Jethro' Burns (mandolin); Charles Hurta, D Potter, Buck Lambert (fiddle); Joe Biviano (accordion); M Hughes, M Gold, Kerr (organ); F Carroll, C R Grean, "Holly" Swanson, Bob L. Moore, Ernest Newton, Ernie Newton, Anita Carter, Harold Siegel (bass guitar); Johnnie deGeorge (drums); Rosalie Allen, Bud Isaacs, "Papa" John Gordie, Elbert R. "Dutch" McMillan, Angus P Klein, Austin Footrell, Jack Shook, Homer Haynes, Hank Snow, Helen Carter, Jerry Byrd, Louis Innis, Phil Kraus , Al Chernet, Farris Coursey, Brock Speer, Buddy Harman.

Personnel: Chet Atkins (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Chet Atkins; Louis Innis (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Jack Shook, Homer Haynes (vocals, guitar); Jethro Burns (vocals, mandolin); Rosalie Allen, Austin Footrell, Danny Dill, Donna Colleen, Beasley Singers, Helen Carter, Sister Billie Rose Atkins, Anita Kerr, Red Kirk, Millie Kirkham, Brock Speer (vocals); Jerry Byrd (guitar, steel guitar); Jimmy Atkins & His Pinetoppers, Randy Lanham, George Warren Barnes, James Atkin, Grady Martin, Hank Snow, Al Chernet (guitar); Bud Isaacs (steel guitar); Dale Potter, Buck Lambert, Charles Hurta, D.F. Potter (fiddle); Angus P Klein, Joe Biviano (accordion); Elbert R. "Dutch" McMillan (clarinet); Marvin Hughes (piano, celesta, organ); "Papa" John Gordie (piano, celesta); M. Patrick Hughes, Malcolm Gold (piano, organ); Aaron Kerr (organ); Johnny Degeorge, Phil Kraus , Farris Coursey, Buddy Harman (drums).

Recording information: Atlanta, GA (??/??/1946-10/22/1956); Chicago, IL (??/??/1946-10/22/1956); Nashville, TN (??/??/1946-10/22/1956); New York, NY (??/??/1946-10/22/1956).

One of the all-time great guitarists, Chet Atkins had a formidable technique and an utterly individual style that influenced generations of successive axeslingers. Atkins's chops were well in place in the early years of his career, as this superb five-disc box set attests. Beginning in 1946, the year he made his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, THE EARLY YEARS traces the first decade of Atkins' solo work.

Although he's generally associated with straight Nashville country (a sound he helped engineer as the go-to session hand), Atkins's solo recordings meld blues, jazz, ragtime, novelty songs and pop with the nimble twang of classic country. There's no shortage of his appealing vocals here, but it's the dazzling, dancing guitar work that makes this nicely assembled box a mother lode.