category: instrumental country / gospel / bluegrass

[excerpt from the CD liner notes]:
"Here are forty more short trracks from 1949 featuring Chet' Atkins' masteful guitar playing in all its facets, plus occasional shots on fiddle and vocal. Enjoy these marvellous and spontaneous recordings over half a century after they were made. Some are truly breathtaking such as Chet's solos on "No Letter Today" (track 8), "I'm Fading Fast With The Tide" (track 19) and quite different from the version on Chet Atkins - 1949, and "Lonsesome Road Blues" (track 21)." -- Country Routes, United Kingdom 2006

CD Track Listing

  1. Opening Theme / I Wish I Had a Nickel (2:34)
  2. Ain'tcha Tired of Making Me Blue (1:47)
  3. Don't Wait (1:38)
  4. Guitar Solo (1:04)
  5. Please Don't Leave Me Any More, Darling (2:23)
  6. In the Pines (1:14)
  7. Cindy (2:15)
  8. No Letter Today (2:37)
  9. I've Got a Home Up in Glory (1:41)
10. Guitar Solo (1:16)
11. Ragtime Annie (1:06)
12. Stay a Little Longer (2:03)
13. I'm Sorry I Caused You to Cry (1:21)
14. Whispering Home (3:06)
15. Guitar Solo (1:07)
16. In the Pines (:43)
17. All Broke out with Love (1:58)
18. I'll Be Back for Sunday (1:23)
19. I'm Fading Fast with the Tide (3:06)
20. Tramp on the Street (2:24)
21. Lonesome Road Blues (1:02)
22. Blues Stay Away from Me (2:34)
23. Chicken Reel / In the Pines (1:36)
24. Divorce Me C.O.D. (2:30)
25. Cold Cold War (2:25)
26. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again (2:05)
27. Liebestraum (1:13)
28. Bald Headed End of the Broom (1:34)
29. Sugar Hill (1:41)
30. Picture, A Ring and a Curl (2:55)
31. Keep on the Firing Line (1:38)
32. There'll Be Some Changes Made (1:12)
33. Kneeling Drunkard's Plea (2:58)
34. Guitar solo / In the Pines (:47)
35. Old Fashioned Hoedown (1:27)
36. Sinner's Prayer (2:53)
37. Comin' Down from God (1:32)
38. John Henry (1:17)
39. Don Juan (3:36)
40. Crossbow / In the Pines (1:47)

CHET ATKINS
full guitar instrumentals - tracks 4, 10, 15, 21, 27, 32, 34, 38
guitar solos - tracks 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 28, 30, 36 (and guitar on all other tracks)
fiddle - tracks 11, 23, 40
vocal - tracks 2, 25
harmony vocal - tracks 1, 18, 22, 37

MOTHER MAYBELLE
lead vocal - tracks 3, 9, 14, 20, 26, 30 (trio), 31, 37
harmony vocal - track 39
banjo solos - tracks 7, 29, 37
guitar - tracks 3, 31 (solo)

JUNE CARTER
lead vocal - tracks 1, 7, 12, 17, 18, 23 (trio), 28, 29, 35 (June speaks throughout, usually to emcee Joe Slattery or Chet, and sometimes sings harmony with her sisters and on the gospel titles)

ANITA CARTER
vocal - tracks 5, 8, 13, 19, 22, 24 (trio), 30 (trio), 33, 36, 39
harmony vocal - tracks 7, 12, 31 (trio) (Anita also sings harmony on the gospel titles, whilst playing string bass throughout)

HELEN CARTER
vocal - tracks 5, 13, 14, 22, 24 (trio), 25, 30 (trio), 36
harmony vocal - tracks 1, 7, 8, 12, 31 (trio), 39 (Helen also sings harmony on the gospel titles, whilst playing accordion throughout, soloing on track 22)

Total timing: 75:52

Label/No: Country Routes 39 (UK import)

Release date: (c)1949, 2006 reissue