category: instrumental country / jazz / easy listening

Album review:
"These boys [Atkins & Knopfler] know what to play and what not to play, and their chemistry brings out pleasantly surprising and delightful sides of both their styles. Though Atkins laughingly calls the album "hillbilly music", jazzabilly is probably more like it. Anyone interested in mining for influences on "Neck and Neck" would just as readily find Django Reinhardt as Merle Travis. And that's just the beginning of a list so long that it renders comparisons irrelevant." - Guitar Extra! Magazine, 1990

CD Track Listing

  1. Poor Boy Blues (Chet Atkins & M.Knopfler: guitars & vocals) (Paul Kennerley) (4:03)
  2. Sweet Dreams (Don Gibson) (3:25)
  3. There'll Be Some Changes Made (Chet Atkins & M.Knopfler: guitars & vocals) (Higgins / Overstreet) (6:28)
  4. Just One Time (w/Mark Knopfler: vocals & guitar) (Don Gibson) (4:12)
  5. So Soft, Your Goodbye (Randy Goodrum) (3:18)
  6. Yakety Axe (Chet Atkins: vocals & guitar) (Randolph / Rich; lyrics by Merle Travis) (3:24)
  7. Tears (Reinhardt / Grappelli) (3:54)
  8. Tahitian Skies (Ray Flacke) (3:18)
  9. I'll See You In My Dreams (Kahn / Jones) (2:58)
10. The Next Time I'm In Town (w/Mark Knopfler: vocals & guitar) (Mark Knopfler) (3:22)

Total timing: 38:26

Label/No: Sony/BMG 467435-2 (German import)

Release date: (c)1990, 2006 reissue

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