Standard Brands (Chet Atkins and Lenny Breau album)

Infobox Album
Name = Standard Brands
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau


Released = 1981
Recorded =
Genre = Jazz
Length = 33:41
Label = RCA
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfixqrgldde link]
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Chet Atkins
Type = album
Last album = "Country After All These Years"
(1981)
This album = "Standard Brands"
(1981)
Next album = "East Tennessee Christmas"
(1983)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Chet Atkins Collaborations
Type = album
Last album = "Reflections"
(1980)
This album = "Standard Brands"
(1981)
Next album = "Neck & Neck"
(1990)

"Standard Brands" is the title of a recording by Chet Atkins and Canadian guitarist Lenny Breau. Due to Breau's drug problems, the album took nearly two years to complete.Atkins, Chet and Cochran, Russ. (2003). "Me and My Guitars". Milwaukee. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-634-05565-8.]

Atkins was instrumental in getting Lenny his first recording contract after hearing one of his (Lenny's) studio tapes. Atkins also produced and recorded two other releases by Breau. Chet said of his longtime friend: "He was a great fingerstylist with fathomless knowledge. His legend will continue to inspire future generations." [ [http://www.lennybreau.com/lbart2.html Lenny Breau Remembered by Jim Ferguson.] Accessed on March 28, 2008.]

The original LP was re-issued on CD by One Way Records in 1994.

Track listing

ide one

# "Batucada" (Luiz Bonfá) – 3:19
# "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:12
# "Cattle Call" (Owens) – 2:08
# "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 4:35
# "Somebody's Knockin'" (Jerry Gillespie, Ed Penney) – 4:21

ide two

# "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:07
# "This Nearly Was Mine" (Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers) – 2:39
# "Going Home" (Dvorak) – 4:35
# "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 5:45

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar
*Lenny Breau – guitar

References