A Session with Chet Atkins

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A Session with Chet Atkins
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released	1954
Length	33:09
Label	RCA Victor LPM-1090 (Mono)
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Chet Atkins chronology
Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins (1953) A Session with Chet Atkins (1954) Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version) (1955)
Alternate Cover
The 1961 re-issue LP cover.

A Session with Chet Atkins is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It features Atkins' introducing standard pop and jazz melded with country sensibilities. The liner notes state this is the first use of a celeste on a country record. The musicians include Homer and Jethro in the rhythm section. Atkins uses his new EchoSonic amplifier for the first time on his recordings.^[1]

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "South" (Charles, Hayes, Moten) – 2:45
2. "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (Hanley, MacDonald) – 3:20
3. "Alabama Jubilee" (Cobb, Yellen) – 2:35
4. "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" (Brown, DeRose) – 2:40
5. "Red Wing" (Mills) – 2:22
6. "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:32

[edit] Side two

1. "Caravan" (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) – 3:25
2. "Corrine, Corrina" (Chatman, Parish, Williams) – 2:20
3. "The Birth of the Blues" (Brown, DeSylva, Henderson) – 3:20
4. "A Gay Ranchero" (Espinosa, Luban) – 2:35
5. "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 2:35
6. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Razaf, Waller) – 2:40

A 2-EP gatefold with the red cover was released in 1955. The tracks were:

1. "South"
2. "Alabama Jubilee"
3. "The Birth of the Blues"
4. "A Gay Ranchero"
5. "Have You Ever Been Lonely"
6. "Frankie and Johnny"

[edit] Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar
• Dale Potter - fiddle
• Bud Isaacs - pedal steel guitar
• Ray Eddington - rhythm guitar
• John Gordy - piano, celeste
• Jerry Byrd - lap steel guitar
• Henry "Homer" Haynes - guitar
• Kenneth "Jethro" Burns - mandolin
• Buddy Harman - drums
• Bob Moore - bass

[edit] References