- Eclectic Guitar
Infobox Album
Name = Eclectic Guitar
Type =compilation album
Artist =Chet Atkins
Released = Mar 19, 2007
Recorded = 1954 - 1956
Length = 51:19
Label = El
Producer =Chet Atkins ,Stephen H. Sholes
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gpfoxzy5ldse link]Last album = "
The Essential Chet Atkins "
(2007)
This album = "Eclectic Guitar"
(2007)
Next album = "The Early Years 1946-1957 "
(2007)"Eclectic Guitar" is a compilation recording by American guitarist
Chet Atkins , released in 2007 on the El label.The single disc contains 20 tracks from the three year period of 1954 through 1956 representing Atkins' work in a variety of styles; mostly pop, jazz, and classical with very little country music. Most of the songs are solo performances.
The cover photo had been previously used for the 1961 re-issue of "
A Session with Chet Atkins ".Track listing
# "Sunrise Serenade" (Carle) – 2:47
# "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf ,Fats Waller ) – 2:41
# "Caravan" (Duke Ellington ,Irving Mills ,Juan Tizol ) – 3:28
# "Mister Sandman " (Pat Ballard ) – 2:18
# "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:25
# "Minute Waltz" (Frédéric Chopin ) – 1:47
# "Intermezzo" (Robert Henning, Heinz Provost) – 2:33
# "Minuet/Prelude" (Bach) – 2:30
# "Little Rock Getaway" (Carl Sigman , Joe Sullivan) – 2:19
# "Ochi Chornya (Dark Eyes)" (Traditional) – 2:46
# "La Golondrina" (Traditional) – 2:48
# "Indian Love Call" (Rudolf Friml , Oscar Hammerstein,Otto Harbach ) – 2:58
# "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 3:01
# "Alice Blue Gown" (Joseph McCarthy,Harry Tierney ) – 2:22
# "Malaguena " (Ernesto Lecuona ) – 2:48
# "Gavotte in D" (François Joseph Gossec ) – 1:43
# "Waltz in A Flat" (Johannes Brahms ) – 1:50
# "Adelita" (Tarrega) – 1:39
# "Petite Walz" (Traditional) – 2:50
# "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin ,Ira Gershwin ,Gus Kahn ) – 2:46Personnel
*Chet Atkins – guitar
*Ray Edenton – guitar
*Poppa John Gordy – piano, celeste
*Buddy Harman – drums
*Marvin Hughes – piano, celeste
*Ernie Newton – bass
*Dale Potter – fiddle
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