Galloping Guitar: The Early Years

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Galloping Guitar: The Early Years
Compilation album by Chet Atkins
Released	1993
Recorded	1940-Nov 17, 1954
Genre	Country
Label	Bear Family
Producer	Stephen H. Sholes, Chet Atkins
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Chet Atkins chronology
Sneakin' Around (1991) Galloping Guitar: The Early Years (1993) Jazz From the Hills (1994)

Galloping Guitar: The Early Years is a multi-disc box-set retrospective recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1993 on the Bear Family label.

This large boxed set (four CDs, 116 songs) focuses on Atkin’s earliest recordings from 1940 to 1954. Early in his career, Atkins was signed and marketed mainly as a vocalist who played guitar. The majority of this set includes Chet’s vocal releases as well as guest vocalists. There are a few instrumentals featured.

The track list is more extensive than Guitar Legend: The RCA Years which covers much of the same material while adding four previously unavailable songs. There are many early Atkins originals and also a large sampling of hard to find songs Atkins co-wrote with Boudleaux Bryant.

In 2004, Bear Family released another box set of 214 tracks titled Mr. Guitar: The Complete Recordings 1955-1960.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Guitar Blues" (Atkins) – 2:50
2. "Brown Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" (Fowler, Kinsey) – 2:49
3. "Ain'tcha Tired of Makin' Me Blue" (Carson) – 2:45
4. "I'm Gonna Get Tight" (Irby) – 2:55
5. "Canned Heat" (Atkins) – 2:35
6. "Standing Room Only" (Coben, Grean) – 2:54
7. "Don't Hand Me That Line" (Kregal, Turner) – 2:37
8. "Bug Dance" (Atkins) – 2:57
9. "(I Know My Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way" (Canton, Shepard) – 2:27
10. "The Nashville Jump" (Atkins, Tennis) – 2:32
11. "My Guitar Is My Sweetheart" (Bargnesi, Rhodes) – 2:40
12. "I'm Pickin' the Blues" (Atkins, Atkins) – 2:50
13. "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Atkins) – 2:40
14. "Barnyard Shuffle" (Atkins) – 2:52
15. "Save Your Money" (Atkins, Atkins) – 2:34
16. "(I May Be Color Blind But) I Know When I'm Blue" (Atkins) – 2:33
17. "I've Been Working on the Guitar" (Traditional) – 2:30
18. "Dizzy Strings" (Atkins) – 2:45
19. "Money, Marbles and Chalk" (Eckler) – 2:54
20. "Wednesday Night Waltz" (Williams) – 2:32
21. "Guitar Waltz" (Clements) – 3:04
22. "Tellin' My Troubles to My Old Guitar" (Weston) – 2:46
23. "Dance of the Golden Rod" (Travis) – 2:41
24. "Galloping on the Guitar" (Atkins) – 2:29
25. "Barber Shop Rag" (Atkins) – 2:50
26. "Centipede Boogie" (Atkins) – 2:38
27. "Under the Hickory Nut Tree" (Carter, Carter, Cash) – 2:58
28. "I Was Bitten by the Same Bug Twice" (Carter) – 2:31
29. "One More Chance" (Rogers, Taylor) – 2:49
30. "The Old Buck Dance" (Atkins) – 2:27
31. "Boogie Man Boogie" (Atkins) – 2:49
32. "Main Street Breakdown" (Atkins) – 2:18
33. "Confusin'" (Innis) – 2:14
34. "Music in My Heart" (Carter) – 2:17
35. "Indian Love Call" (Friml, Hammerstein, Harbach) – 2:39
36. "Birth of the Blues" (Brown, DeSylva, Henderson) – 2:33
37. "Mountain Melody" (Atkins) – 2:10
38. "You're Always Brand New" (Hamblen) – 2:39
39. "My Crazy Heart" (Atkins, Carter) – 2:41
40. "Hybrid Corn" (Atkins) – 2:15
41. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Maltby, Waller) – 2:37
42. "One Man Boogie [Take H]" (Atkins) – 2:40
43. "Crazy Rhythm [instrumental]" (Caesar, Kahn, Meyer) – 2:25
44. "Crazy Rhythm [Vocal Version]" (Caesar, Kahn, Meyer) – 2:23
45. "Rustic Dance" (Unknown) – 2:06
46. "Rainbow" (Bryan, Wenrich) – 2:38
47. "In the Mood" (Garland, Razaf) – 2:29
48. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 2:40
49. "Midnight" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:53 (Performed by:Atkins, Beasley Singers)
50. "Good-Bye Blues" (Fields, Johnson, McHugh) – 2:29 (Performed by: Atkins, Beasley Singers)
51. "Your Mean Little Heart" (Bryant) – 2:33 (Performed by: Atkins, Beasley Singers)
52. "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:05 (Performed by: Atkins, Beasley Singers)
53. "Blue Gypsy" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:19
54. "The Third Man Theme" (Karas) – 2:26
55. "One Man Boogie [Take D]" (Atkins) – 2:38
56. "St. Louis Blue" (Handy) – 2:17
57. "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Erdman, Kahn, Meyers, Schoebel) – 2:16
58. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Hammerstein, Romberg) – 2:26
59. "Stephen Foster Medley" (Traditional) – 2:26
60. "Hangover Blues" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:36
61. "Imagination" (Atkins) – 2:13
62. "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:18
63. "Guitar Polka" (Unknown) – 2:06 (Performed by: Atkins, Rosalie Allen)
64. "Dream Train" (Unknown) – 2:13 (Performed by: Atkins, Rosalie Allen)
65. "Meet Mister Callaghan" (Spear) – 2:42
66. "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (Jerome, Schwartz) – 2:01
67. "High Rockin' Swing" (Avants, Tennant) – 2:20
68. "Pig Leaf Rag" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:31
69. "Oh by Jingo!" (Brown, VonTilzer) – 2:14
70. "Hello Ma Baby" (Emerson, Howard) – 2:09
71. "The Bells of St. Mary's" (Adams, Furber) – 2:15
72. "Country Gentleman" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:15
73. "Memphis Blues" (Handy, Norton) – 2:11
74. "Alice Blue Gown" (McCarthy, Tierney) – 2:06
75. "Twelfth Street Rag" (Bowman) – 2:22
76. "Peeping Tom" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:22
77. "Three O'Clock in the Morning" (Robledo, Terriss) – 2:19
78. "Georgia Camp Meeting" (Traditional) – 2:14
79. "City Slicker" (Atkins) – 2:23
80. "Dill Pickle Rag" (Traditional) – 2:25
81. "Rubber Doll Rag" (Landress) – 2:15
82. "Beautiful Ohio [Version 1]" (Earl, MacDonald) – 2:17
83. "Kentucky Derby" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:03
84. "Wildwood Flower" (Carter) – 2:13
85. "Guitars on Parade" (Atkins) – 2:22
86. "Simple Simon" (Atkins) – 2:11
87. "Rubber Doll Rag [alternate take]" (Landress) – 2:24
88. "Get Up and Go" (McCarthy) – 2:54
89. "Pagan Love Song" (Brown, Freed) – 2:07
90. "Beautiful Ohio [Version 2]" (Earl, MacDonald) – 2:09
91. "Downhill Drag" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:23
92. "Avalon" (DeSylva, Jolson, Rose) – 2:20
93. "Sunrise Serenade" (Brown, Carle) – 2:45
94. "San Antonio Rose" (Wills) – 2:29
95. "Set a Spell" (Atkins, Innis) – 2:27 (Performed by: Atkins, Red Kirk)
96. "Mister Misery [version]" (Atkins, Innis) – 2:29 (Performed by: Atkins, Louis Innis)
97. "Get Up and Go" (McCarthy) – 2:53 (Performed by: Atkins, Red Kirk)
98. "South" (Charles, Hayes, Moten) – 2:49
99. "Alabama Jubilee" (Cobb, Yellen) – 2:36
100. "Corrine, Corrina" (Chatman, Parish, Williams) – 2:20
101. "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (Hanley, MacDonald) – 3:22
102. "Red Wing" (Mills) – 2:27
103. "Frankie and Johnnie" (Traditional) – 2:35
104. "A Gay Ranchero" (Espinosa, Luban, Tuvim) – 2:34 (Performed by: Tuvinian Singers)
105. "Ballin' the Jack" (Burris, Smith) – 2:58
106. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Razaf, Waller) – 2:42
107. "Darktown Strutters' Ball" (Brooks) – 2:01 (Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow)
108. "The Old Spinning Wheel" (Hill) – 2:27 (Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow)
109. "Silver Bell" (Madden, Wenrich) – 2:17 ( Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow)
110. "Under the Double Eagle" (Wagner) – 2:35 (Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow)
111. "Birth of the Blues" (Brown, DeSylva, Henderson) – 3:23
112. "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" (Brown, DeRose) – 2:43
113. "Caravan" (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) – 3:28
114. "Ol' Man River" (Hammerstein, Kern) – 2:35
115. "Mister Sandman" (Ballard) – 2:17
116. "New Spanish Two-Step" (Duncan, Wills) – 2:09

[edit] Personnel

• Chet Atkins - guitar, vocals
• James “Jimmy” Atkins - guitar
• George Barnes - guitar
• Harold Bradley - guitar
• Jerry Byrd - lap steel guitar
• Bob Moore - bass
• Buddy Harman - drums
• Hank Snow - guitar, vocals
• Anita Carter - bass, vocals
• Rosalie Allen - vocals
• Frank Carroll - bass
• Al Chernet - guitar
• Charles Grean - bass
• Ray Edenton - guitar
• John Gordy - piano
• Marty Gold - piano, organ
• Marvin Hughes - piano, organ, celeste
• Dale Potter - fiddle
• Ernie Newton - bass
• Donna Wilson - vocals
• Coleen Wilson - vocals
• Jack Shook - guitar, vocals
• Donald Slayman - fiddle
• Harold Siegel - bass
• Roy Lanham - guitar
• Phil Kraus - bass
• Dutch McMillin - clarinet
• Anita Kerr - organ
• Louis Innis - guitar

[edit] See also

• The Nashville A-Team

[edit] External links

• Listing of single releases by Chet Atkins