Reminiscing (Atkins/Snow album)

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Reminiscing
Studio album by Chet Atkins, Hank Snow
Released	1964
Recorded	RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre	Country
Length	31:42
Label	RCA LSM 2952 (Mono), LSP-2952 (Stereo)
Producer	Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Chet Atkins chronology
Travelin' (1963) Reminiscing (1964) Guitar Country (1964)
Chet Atkins Collaborations chronology
Reminiscing (1964) The Pops Goes Country (1966)

Original LP back cover photo of Hank and Chet in the studio

Reminiscing is the title of the first collaborative long-play recording by American country music artists Chet Atkins and Hank Snow. The liner notes, titled "Guitar Duets by a Pair of Favorites", are by Chris Lane, a program director from KAYO radio in Seattle, Washington, who takes credit for recommending the collaboration to RCA.

Snow and Atkins had been doing guitar duets on various radio stations, gathering listeners and fans. Their first single was "Reminiscing", produced roughly seven years before the release of this LP. Atkins and Snow had a hit single in 1955, a guitar duet called "Silver Bell."^[1] A regular at the Grand Ole Opry, Snow was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. He had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums. Atkins had not only made his mark as a sideman and recording artist on his own, but was also busy producing many major country artists and developing Nashville as a major center for country music recording.

Atkins and Snow joined forces again in 1969 to record C.B. Atkins & C.E. Snow by Special Request. Both albums are out of print and have not been re-issued on CD.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Indian Love Call" (Firml, Hammerstein, Harbach) – 3:20
2. "I Can’t Stop Loving You" (Gibson) – 2:26
3. "Beautiful Dreamer" (Traditional) – 2:54
4. "Vaya con Dios" (Pepper, Russell, Jones, Hoff) – 2:54
5. "Sonny Boy" (Johnson, DeSylva, Brown, Henderson) – 3:01
6. "The Convict and the Rose" (Robert King, Ballard MacDonald) – 2:20

[edit] Side two

1. "Brahm’s Lullaby" (Johannes Brahms)– 2:14
2. "My Isle of Golden Dreams" (Walter Blaufuss, Gus Kahn) – 2:25
3. "Blue Tango" (Leroy Anderson) – 2:16
4. "Unchained Melody" (Alex North, Hay Zaret) – 2:55
5. "In an Old Dutch Garden (By an Old Dutch Mill)" (Mack Gordon, Will Grosz) – 2:12
6. "Dark Moon" (Ned Miller) – 2:35

[edit] Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar
• Hank Snow – guitar, vocals
• Marvin Huges - piano
• Chubby Wise - fiddle
• Ray Edenton - guitar
• Buddy Harman - drums
• Bill McElhiney - trumpet
• Bob Moore - bass

[edit] Production notes

• Engineered by Chuck Seitz
• Arrangements by Anita Kerr
• Cover photo by Sid O'Berry

[edit] See Also

• The Nashville A-Team

[edit] References