Almost Alone (Chet Atkins album)

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Almost Alone
Almost Alone cover
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released May 1996
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Professional reviews
Chet Atkins chronology
Simpatico
(1994)		 Almost Alone
(1996)		 The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World
(1997)

Almost Alone is a an album by Chet Atkins. He was 71 at the time of the album's release. It is almost all solo guitar instrumentals. "Jam Man" won the 1997 Grammy award for Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance.

Chet replaced the two low strings on a Country Gentleman guitar with bass strings on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow". There are no overdubs except for "Jam Man" and "You Do Something to Me". "Jam Man" uses a musical effect of the same name.[1]

As part of the promotion for the release, Chet signed 125 Gibson Epiphone guitars that were given away in contests around the country.[2]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Chet Atkins unless noted.

  1. "Big Foot" – 1:42
  2. "Waiting for Susie B." – 3:16
  3. "A Little Mark Musik" – 3:10
  4. "Jam Man" – 3:23
  5. "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" (Atkins, Wheeler) – 3:00
  6. "Pu Uana Julu" (Alapai) – 3:00
  7. "Happy Again" – 2:52
  8. "Sweet Alla Lee" – 2:53
  9. "Maybelle" – 3:11
  10. "Mr. Bojangles" (Walker) – 3:06
  11. "Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin) – 3:16
  12. "You Do Something to Me" (Porter) – 2:55
  13. "Ave Maria" (Schubert) – 3:23

[edit] Personnel

  • Chet Atkins - guitar, vocals
  • Randy Goodrum - keyboards on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow"
  • Randy Howard - fiddle on "Sweet Alla Lee"
  • Paul Yandell - guitar on "Maybelle"
  • Bergen White - string arrangements
  • Nashville String Machine - strings

[edit] Production notes

  • Engineered by Clark Hagen, Jim McKell, Chet Atkins
  • Mastered by Jonathan Russell
  • Mixed by Eric Rudd

[edit] References

  1. ^ Atkins, Chet. Chet Atkins Almost Alone. (1998) Hal Leonard Publishing. ISBN 0-7935-6875-7.
  2. ^ Stambler, I and Landon, G. Country Music: The Encyclopedia. (1997) McMillan.

[edit] External links

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