category: instrumental country / pop / easy listening

[From the CD liner notes]:
At last! The first anthology of vintage CHET ATKINS that's all twanging and no singing! 32 vibrant, red hot guitar gems dating from 1946 to 1953 and including classic solo performances by Chet. Also featured is hot jazzy trios with HOMER HAYNES and JETHRO BURNS...sheer six string heaven! -- from Hongry Man Down Home Recordings, 2004

CD Track Listing

  1. Guitar Blues (Chet Atkins) (2:50)
  2. Canned Heat (Chet Atkins) (2:35)
  3. Bug Dance (Chet Atkins) (2:57)
  4. The Nashville Jump (Chet Atkins / Lowell Tennis) (2:32)
  5. Barnyard Shuffle (Chet Atkins) (2:52)
  6. Dizzy Strings (Chet Atkins) (2:45)
  7. Galloping on the Guitar * (Chet Atkins) (2:29)
  8. Dance of the Goldenrod * (John H. Tower) (2:50)
  9. Centipede Boogie * (Chet Atkins) (2:38)
10. Main Street Breakdown * (Chet Atkins) (2:18)
11. Birth of the Blues (DeSylva / Brown / Henderson) (2:33)
12. Mountain Melody (Chet Atkins) (2:10)
13. Hybrid Corn (trad. arr. Chet Atkins) (2:15)
14. Jitterbug Waltz (Fats Waller) (2:37)
15. One Man Boogie (take F) (Chet Atkins) (2:40)
16. Crazy Rhythm (take F) (Chet Atkins) (2:25)
17. Blue Gypsy (Boudleaux Bryant / Chet Atkins) (2:19)
18. The 'Third Man' Theme (Anton Karas) (2:26)
19. St. Louis Blues (W.C.Handy) (2:17)
20. Nobody's Sweetheart (Schoebel / Erdman / Kahn / Meyers) (2:16)
21. Lover, Come Back To Me (Sigmund Romberg) (2:26)
22. Hangover Blues (Chet Atkins / Boudleaux Bryant) (2:36)
23. Imagination (Chet Atkins) (2:13)
24. Black Mountain Rag (Tommy Magness) (2:18)
25. Oh By Jingo! (Brown / Von Tilzer) (2:14)
26. Hello Ma Baby (Howard / Emerson) (2:09)
27. The Bells of St. Mary's (Adams / Furber) (2:15)
28. Country Gentleman * (Chet Atkins / Boudleaux Bryant) (2:15)
29. Memphis Blues * (W.C.Handy) (2:11)
30. City Slicker (Chet Atkins) (2:23)
31. Kentucky Derby (Chet Atkins / Boudleaux Bryant) (2:03)
32. Wildwood Flower (A.P.Carter) (2:13)

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

Total timing: 78:13

Label/No: Hongry Man 98 (Canadian import)

Release date: 2004 reissue