category: instrumental country / jazz / pop / easy listening

[from the CD liner notes]:
"Grammy award-winning Chet Atkins had great influence on country music and its presence on the pop charts in the '50s and '60s. The former session musician and record producer earned nine CMA Instrumentalist of the Year honors, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from NARAS. His music career spanned over 50 years, making him the most recorded solo instrumentalist in country music history."

CD Track Listing

  1. Arkansas Traveler (trad. arr. Roy Lanham) (2:22)
  2. Your Mean Little Heart (w/The Beasley Singers: vocal chorus) (Boudleaux Bryant) (2:35)
  3. Bill Bailey (w/The Anita Kerr Singers: vocal chorus) (Hughie Cannon) (2:19)
  4. Country Gentleman * (Boudleaux Bryant / Chet Atkins) (2:17)
  5. Down Home (Jerry Reed) (2:10)
  6. Georgia Camp Meeting (trad. arr. Chet Atkins) (2:16)
  7. High Rockin’ Swing * (Avants / Tennant) (2:21)
  8. You're Always Brand New (w/Danny Dill: vocals) (Stuart Hamblen) (2:41)
  9. Mr. Sandman (Pat Ballard) (2:23)
10. Streets Of Laredo (trad. arr. Chet Atkins) (2:43)
11. Medley (w/Doc Watson: guitar): Tennessee Rag (Chet Atkins) / Beaumont Rag (trad. arr. Doc Watson) (2:30)
12. Wildwood Flower (A.P.Carter) (2:13)

  * Homer Haynes (rhythm guitar) & Jethro Burns (mandolin)

Total timing: 28:57

Label/No: BCI Eclipse 41140-2

Release date: 2005 reissue