Chet Atkins' Workshop

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Chet Atkins' Workshop
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released	1961
Recorded	Nashville, TN
Length	27:01
Label	RCA Victor LSP-2232 (Stereo)
Producer	Chet Atkins
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Chet Atkins' Workshop is a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. Full of pop and jazz stylings and no country, this became his best-selling LP to date, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Pop album charts.

Atkins is once again pictured on the cover in his home studio in Nashville. The liner notes are by David Halberstam, then writing for The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee, and discuss his practice of recording rhythm tracks in the RCA studio and then going home with the tapes to perfect his guitar part in his own studio.^[1] "The workshop resembles a small scale Cape Canaveral. In it is approximately $8,000 worth of electronic and electrical equipment, much of it built by Atkins himself: a small maze of mxing panels, a three channel stereo tape recorder, a one channel recorder... This is the lonely man's room and Atkins when he is working is a lonely man. 'Can't take my time in the studio. We're making money there and when you are making money you can't really take your time.' Here he can retire for days on end to be handed an occasional sandwich through the door by his wife Leona, but here to stay with his guitar, and his sound."^[2]

In 2002, Classic Compact Disc (Disc 2103) released Chet Atkins' Workshop along with Mister Guitar on one compact disc.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Lambeth Walk" (Furber, Gay) – 2:45
2. "A Summer Place" (Steiner) – 2:04
3. "Whispering" (Coburn, Rose, Schoenberger) – 2:04
4. "In a Little Spanish Town" (Lewis, Wayne, Young) – 2:11
5. "Sleep" (Lebleg) – 2:15
6. "Marie" (Berlin) – 2:12

[edit] Side two

1. "Hot Mocking Bird" – 2:07
2. "Lullaby of Birdland" (Shearing, Weiss) – 2:04
3. "Tammy" (Evans, Evans, Livingston) – 1:55
4. "Goofus" (Harold, Kahn, King) – 2:31
5. "Bonita" (Rich) – 2:46
6. "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" (Evans, Livingston) – 2:07

[edit] Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar

[edit] Production Notes

• Produced by Chet Atkins
• Engineered by Bill Porter

[edit] References