Simpatico (Suzy Bogguss and Chet Atkins album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Simpatico
Type = Album
Artist = Suzy Bogguss, Chet Atkins


Released = 1994
Genre = Country (New Traditionalist)
Length = 39:07
Label = Liberty
Producer = John Guess, Suzy Bogguss
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifixqthld6e~T1 link]
* Charlton Wiggins (The Pulse) [http://www.hangingdogcreek.com/W_Simpatico.php link]
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Suzy Bogguss
Type = album
Last album = "Greatest Hits"
(1994)
This album = "Simpatico"
(1994)
Next album = "Give Me Some Wheels"
(1996)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Chet Atkins
Type = album
Last album = "Read My Licks"
(1994)
This album = "Simpatico"
(1994)
Next album = "Almost Alone"
(1996)

"Simpatico" is a 1994 album by Suzy Bogguss and Chet Atkins.

After the incredible success of her previous two releases, Bogguss shifted gears for her 1994's "Simpatico", a very personal, low-key album of duets with long-time friend and guitar legend Chet Atkins. The mood of the album was, no doubt, colored by the fact that he had recently been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Like Bogguss's solo releases, the album offered a fine balance of classic and contemporary stylings. Covers of the 1955 Webb Pierce hit, "In the Jailhouse Now," and Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone" mingle with a beautiful rendition of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin composition "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" and a handful of pop/folk-inflected tracks. Although the album was generally well reviewed, its lone single, the original recording "One More for the Road," did not chart.

Some feel that "Simpatico" suffered from the ongoing feud between Liberty/Capitol head Jimmy Bowen and the label's biggest star at the time, Garth Brooks. The disagreement ultimately ended with Bowen leaving the label, and "Simpatico" simply fell through the cracks. The album has since been deleted from the Capitol catalog.

Atkins and Bogguss were nominated for the 1996 Grammy award for Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration for "All My Loving' but did not win.

Track listing

# "In the Jailhouse Now" (Rodgers) – 3:11
# "When She Smiled at Him" (Beeson/Johnson) - 3:06
# "Forget About It" (Kass) - 4:22
# "Wives Don't Like Old Girlfriends" (Fontayne/VanWarmer) - 4:12
# "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (Elton John/Taupin) - 3:59
# "Two Shades of Blue" (Allen/Braddock/VanHoy) - 3:25
# "One More for the Road" (Atkins/Bogguss/Crider) - 4:26
# "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash/Cash) - 3:40
# "You Bring Out the Best in Me" (Bogguss/Crider/Dorff) - 3:34
# "This Is the Beginning" (Donohue) - 5:12

Personnel

*Suzy Bogguss - vocals
*Chet Atkins - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
*Brent Rowan - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*Pat Bergeson - acoustic guitar, harmonica
*R. L. Kass - acoustic guitar
*Mark O'Connor - fiddle
*Matt Rollings - piano
*Mike Lawler - synthesizer
*Leland Sklar, Roy Husky, Jr., Glenn Worf - bass
*Carlos Vega, Harry Stinson - drums
*Tom Roady - percussion
*Nashville String Machine - strings
*Harry Stinson, Gerald Boyd, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Sons of the San Joaquin, Vince Gill, Jack Hannah, Carl Atkins, Joe Hannah, Lon Hannah - background vocals

Production

*Producer(s): John Guess, Suzy Bogguss
*Engineer: Derek Bason, John Guess, Doug Crider
*Assistant Engineer: Derek Bason, John Thomas II
*Mixing: John Guess
*Mixing Assistant: Derek Bason
*Mastering: Glenn Meadows
*Conductor, String Arrangements: David Campbell
*Concert Master: Carl Gorodetzky
*Concertina: Flaco Jimenez
*Production Coordination: Janie West
*Design: Jerry Joyner
*Photography: Frank Ockenfels
*Stylist: Claudia Fowler
*Hair Stylist: Earl Cox
*Make-Up: Mary Beth Felts
*Distributor: EMI Music Dist.
*Studio: Emerald Sound and Sound Stage, Nashville, TN.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

External links

* [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002TQU Amazon.com review]
* [http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/suzy_bogguss_and_chet_atkins/simpatico Rate Your Music review]