Guitar Legend: The RCA Years

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Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
Guitar Legend: The RCA Years cover
Compilation album by Chet Atkins
Released April 4, 2000
Recorded 1947-1977
Length 123:48
Label Buddha (99673)
Producer Chet Atkins, Steve Sholes, Bob Ferguson, Charles Grean
Professional reviews
Chet Atkins chronology
The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World
(1997)		 Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
(2000)		 RCA Country Legends: Chet Atkins
(2001)

Guitar Legend: The RCA Years is a two-disc compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. The 50 tracks included here focus on the his first recordings in 1947 to the 1977 release Nashville Guitar Quartet.

This collection includes many of Chet's early 78 rpm & 45 rpm releases. Issued on CD for the first time are tracks from Atkins' early EP Pickin' the HIts "Dance With Me Henry" and "Tweedlee Dee" as well as early versions on "Trambone" and "Blue Ocean Echo" ("Blue Echo"). The short-lived ensemble "The Rhythm Rockers (featuring Chet Atkins)" is represented by "Dig These Blues".

The version of "Black Mountain Rag" is incorrectly listed in the liner notes as taken from the 10-inch vinyl release Gallopin' Guitar. It is actually a much later version from the LP Pickin' My Way.

There is more of a concentration on the early period, with a much smaller amount from selected '50's and '60's LP's.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Canned Heat" (Atkins) – 2:35
  2. "The Nashville Jump" (Atkins, Tennis) – 2:31
  3. "Dizzy Strings" (Atkins) – 2:42
  4. "Tellin' My Troubles to My Old Guitar" (Weston) – 2:45
  5. "Dance of the Golden Rod" (Travis) – 2:39
  6. "Galloping on the Guitar" (Atkins) – 2:28
  7. "Centipede Boogie" (Atkins) – 2:40
  8. "Main Street Breakdown" (Atkins) – 2:16
  9. "Indian Love Call" (Friml, Hammerstein, Harbach) – 2:38
  10. "Mountain Melody" (Atkins) – 2:09
  11. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Maltby, Waller) – 2:36
  12. "Rainbow" (Bryan, Wenrich) – 2:36
  13. "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Erdman, Kahn, Meyers, Schoebel) – 2:14
  14. "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (Jerome, Schwartz) – 1:59
  15. "Fiddle Patch" (Potter) – 2:19
  16. "(When It's) Darkness on the Delta" (Levinson, Neiburg, Symes) – 2:46
  17. "High Rockin' Swing" (Avants, Tennant) – 2:19
  18. "Guitars on Parade" (Atkins) – 2:21
  19. "Oh! By Jingo" (Brown, VonTilzer) – 2:13
  20. "The Bells of St. Mary's" (Adams, Furber) – 2:13
  21. "Country Gentleman" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:14
  22. "Memphis Blues" (Handy, Norton) – 2:08
  23. "Downhill Drag" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:22
  24. "Ballin' the Jack" (Burris, Smith) – 2:56
  25. "Silver Bell" (Madden, Wenrich) – 2:14
  26. "Mr. Sandman" (Ballard) – 2:18
  27. "New Spanish Two-Step" (Duncan, Wills) – 2:11
  28. "The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song)" (Monnot) – 1:59
  29. "Tweedlee Dee" (Scott) – 2:24
  30. "Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry)" (Ballard, Otis) – 2:22
  31. "Blue Ocean Echo" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:19
  32. "Trambone" (Atkins) – 2:12
  33. "Dig These Blues" (Chatman) – 2:24
  34. "Yesterdays" (Harbach, Kern) – 2:20
  35. "Walk, Don't Run" (Smith) – 2:24
  36. "Hot Toddy" (Flanagan) – 2:24
  37. "Slinkey" (Atkins) – 2:04
  38. "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 3:37
  39. "Windy and Warm" (John D. Loudermilk|Loudermilk]]) – 2:28
  40. "Early Times" (Reed) – 2:40
  41. "Satan's Doll" (Smith) – 3:51
  42. "So Rare" (Sharpe) – 3:03
  43. "Yakety Axe" (Randolph, Rich) – 2:04
  44. "Blue Angel" (Lima) – 2:25
  45. "Steeplechase Lane" (Hubbard) – 2:26
  46. "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:35
  47. "Take Five" (Desmond) – 2:42
  48. "Blue Finger" (Hubbard) – 2:38
  49. "Cascade" (Slone) – 2:26
  50. "Carolina Shout" (Johnson) – 2:39

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