category: instrumental country / blues / jazz / easy listening

[From the CD liner notes]:
"This collection features early recordings from the country guitar virtusos and influential recording executive
Chet Atkins. He is heard in a variety of settings, working on standard, breakdowns, and blues with such collaborators as Grady Martin and the duet team known as Homer & Jethro.

As these early recordings from the '40's and early '50's show, the appreciation of pop polish and blues drive that Atkins brought to country-pop production was no departure from his deepest musical instincts." -- William Hogeland

CD Track Listing

  1. Guitar Blues (Chet Atkins) (2:50)
  2. Canned Heat (Chet Atkins) (2:34)
  3. Standing Room Only (Chet: vocals) (Cy Coben / Chet Atkins) (2:53)
  4. The Nashville Jump (Chet Atkins / Louis Innis) (2:31)
  5. I'm Pickin' The Blues (Chet: vocals) (Chet Atkins / Jim Atkins) (2:49)
  6. I've Been Working On The Guitar (trad. arr. Chet Atkins) (2:29)
  7. Telling My Troubles To My Old Guitar (Chet: vocals) (D.Weston) (2:46)
  8. Galloping On The Guitar * (Chet Atkins) (2:29)
  9. Centipede Boogie * (Chet Atkins) (2:41)
10. The Old Buck Dance (C.Atkins w/Helen & Anita Carter: vocals) * (Chet Atkins) (2:27)
11. Main Street Breakdown * (Chet Atkins) (2:17)
12. Mountain Melody (Chet Atkins) (2:10)
13. Sweet Bunch Of Daisies (w/The Beasley Singers: vocal chorus) (Boudleaux Bryant / Chet Atkins) (2:04)
14. The 3rd Man Theme (Anton Karas) (2:26)
15. St. Louis Blues (W.C.Handy) (2:17)
16. Hangover Blues (Boudleaux Bryant / Chet Atkins) (2:36)
17. Black Mountain Rag (Tommy Magness) (2:17)
18. Chinatown, My Chinatown (Jerome / Schwartz) (2:00)
19. High Rockin' Swing * (Avants / Tennant) (2:20)
20. Fig Leaf Rag * (Chet Atkins / Boudleaux Bryant) (2:30)
21. The Bells Of St. Mary's (Furber / Adams) (2:13)
22. Country Gentleman * (Boudleaux Bryant / Chet Atkins) (2:15)
23. 12th Street Rag * (E.Bowman) (2:20)
24. City Slicker (Chet Atkins) (2:19)

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

Total timing: 58:46

Label/No: Country Stars 55494 (Holland import)

Release date: (c)1946-53, 2003 reissue