A Session with Chet Atkins

Infobox Album
Name = A Session with Chet Atkins
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins


Released = 1954
Recorded =
Length = 33:09
Label = RCA Victor LPM-1090 (Mono)
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wjfixql5ldse link]
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins"
(1953)
This album = "A Session with Chet Atkins"
(1954)
Next album = "Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version)"
(1955)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = album


Lower caption = The 1961 re-issue LP cover.

"A Session with Chet Atkins" is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It features Atkins' introducing standard pop and jazz melded with country sensibilities. The liner notes state this is the first use of a celeste on a country record. The musicians include Homer and Jethro in the rhythm section. Atkins uses his new EchoSonic amplifier for the first time on his recordings.Atkins, Chet and Cochran, Russ. (2003). "Me and My Guitars". Milwaukee. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-634-05565-8.]

Track listing

ide one

# "South" (Ray Charles, T. Hayes, Bennie Moten) – 2:45
# "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (James Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 3:20
# "Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 2:35
# "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" (George Brown, Peter DeRose) – 2:40
# "Red Wing" (Kerry Mills) – 2:22
# "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:32

ide two

# "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 3:25
# "Corrine, Corrina" (Chatmon, Mitchell Parish, J. Mayo Williams) – 2:20
# "The Birth of the Blues" (Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 3:20
# "A Gay Ranchero" (J. J. Espinosa, Francia Luban) – 2:35
# "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 2:35
# "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:40

A 2-EP gatefold with the red cover was released in 1955. The tracks were:
# "South"
# "Alabama Jubilee"
# "The Birth of the Blues"
# "A Gay Ranchero"
# "Have You Ever Been Lonely"
# "Frankie and Johnny"

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar
*Dale Potter – fiddle
*Bud Isaacs – pedal steel guitar
*Ray Eddington – rhythm guitar
*John Gordy – piano, celeste
*Jerry Byrd – lap steel guitar
*Henry "Homer" Haynes – guitar
*Kenneth "Jethro" Burns – mandolin
*Buddy Harman – drums
*Bob Moore – bass

References