Almost Alone
Almost Alone | ||||
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Studio album by Chet Atkins | ||||
Released | May 1996 | |||
Recorded | Nashville, TN | |||
Genre | Country, pop | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Chet Atkins | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Almost Alone is the fifty-seventh studio 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.
Atkins replaced the E and A normal guitar bass strings on a Gibson Country Gentleman guitar with thicker strings on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" to lower them an octave, giving a fuller bass accompaniment effect. There are no overdubs except for "Jam Man" and "You Do Something to Me". "Jam Man" uses a musical effect of the same name.[2]
As part of the promotion for the release, Atkins signed 125 Gibson Epiphone guitars that were given away in contests around the country.[3]
Track listing
All songs by Chet Atkins unless noted.
- "Big Foot" – 1:42
- "Waiting for Susie B." – 3:16
- "A Little Mark Musik" – 3:10
- "Jam Man" – 3:23
- "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" (Atkins, Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:00
- "Pu, Uana Hulu (Remembering Gabby)" (David Alapai) – 3:00
- "Happy Again" – 2:52
- "Sweet Alla Lee" – 2:53
- "Maybelle" – 3:11
- "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 3:06
- "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:16
- "You Do Something to Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:55
- "Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert) – 3:23
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
Production notes
- Engineered by Clark Hagen, Jim McKell, Chet Atkins
- Mastered by Jonathan Russell
- Mixed by Eric Rudd
Chart performance
Chart (1996) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 74 |
References
External links
- Chet Atkins Interview - Vintage Guitar Magazine - June 1996[permanent dead link]
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compilations
- The Best of Chet Atkins
- The Best of Chet Atkins, Vol. 2
- The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends
- Galloping Guitar: The Early Years
- Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
- Chet Picks on the Grammys
- The Essential Chet Atkins: The Columbia Years
- The Essential Chet Atkins
- Eclectic Guitar
- The Early Years 1946–1957