category: instrumental country / gospel / bluegrass

[excerpt from the CD liner notes]:
"The recordings featured on this selction are transcription discs for assorted radio shows during Chet Atkins' early career; with Mother Maybelle and theCarter Sisters and Shorty Thompson, as well as syndicated shows emceed by country music artists Jimmy Dean and Faron Young. The last of these selcted shows feature Chet's later style performance (compare tracks 28 and 30), as well as a young Hank Garland on the Faron Young title.

These recordings cover the period before Chet's Gretsch guitar days, when he played his various instruments such as his Gibson L7, L10, and the Gibson 175. But Chet said in his book Me & My Guitars, that he played his DAngelico Excel (no. 1839 with a P90 pickup at the bridge and a Bigsby up front) on all his Carter Family appearances. He was using a Fender Pro amp also at this time and what a sound this combination makes!" -- Brian Pymm, Country Routes 2003

CD Track Listing

  1. Radiozark Theme (0:35)
  2. The Leaf of Love (2:02)
  3. Guitar solo (1:18)
  4. Medley: (a) Late Evening Blues / (b) Charming Billy (1:53)
  5. Johnson Boys (1:34)
  6. The Old Black Mountain Trail (1:25)
  7. That Pretty Little Face (1:56)
  8. Cabin In The Valley of the Pines (2:14)
  9. Guitar solo (1:09)
10. Heartbroken (2:54)
11. Medley: (a) Beaumont Rag / (b) In The Pines (1:28)
12. Canned Heat (1:19)
13. Grandma Told Me So (1:55)
14. One More Chance (2:25)
15. Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider (1:08)
16. Medley: (a) My Gal Sal / (b) Crossbow / (c) Little Sweetheart I Miss You (2:56)
17. Canned Heat (1:27)
18. I've Been Bitten By the Same Bug Twice (2:39)
19. Alabama Jubilee (2:00)
20. Bummin' Around (2:32)
21. San Antonio Rose (2:29)
22. Rainbow (1:24)
23. It's My Lazy Day (1:56)
24. Poor Old Heartsick Me (2:20)
25. Five Foot Two (1:58)
26. Poor People Of Paris (2:01)
27. Good Lord Saying "Good Morining" (2:17)
28. Country Gentleman (1:58)
29. Moonlight Mountain (2:20)
30. Country Gentleman (2:18)
31. Poor People Of Paris (2:41)
32. Dance Of The Golden Rod (3:02)

Chet Atkins
guitar solos only - tracks 3, 9, 12, 15, 16a, 16c, 17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32
vocal & guitar - tracks 14, 18
fiddle - tracks 11a, 16b

The Carter Sisters (as a trio) - tracks 5, 6, 8, 11b
and individually
June Carter - vocals - tracks 4b, 10b, 13, 18
Anita Carter - string bass / vocals - 2, 4a, 7, 10a, 23
Helen Carter - accordion / vocals - tracks 2, 7, 14, 18, 24
and
Jimmie Dean - vocals - tracks 20, 27
Faron Young - vocals - track 29

Total timing: 63:52

Label/No: Country Routes 32 (UK import)

Release date: (c)1949-50, 2005 reissue