Finger Style Guitar

Infobox Album
Name = Finger Style Guitar
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins


Caption = Cover of the original release of the LP
Released = 1956
Recorded = Oct 22, 1956 - Nov 29, 1956, Nashville, TN
Genre = Country, pop, classical
Length = 27:16
Label = RCA Victor LPM-1383
Producer = Chet Atkins
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:djfoxql5ldse link]
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions"
(1955)
This album = "Finger Style Guitar"
(1956)
Next album ="Chet Atkins at Home"
(1957)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = album


Lower caption = Cover of the second release of the LP

"Finger Style Guitar" is an album by American guitarist Chet Atkins.

Some references to it spell the title "Finger–Style". It was re-released in 2006 as "Finger Style Guitar.. Plus" on the Universe label with an additional 10 tracks.

The original LP consisted of a light rhythm section on the first side and Chet solo on side two.

The four Frank Loesser tunes on the re-release are from the 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella with vocals by Eddy Arnold, all released on an RCA EP. Also included are two duets with Hank Snow and a single released by The Rhythm Rockers. "Blue Echo" was co-written with Boudleaux Bryant, who also co-wrote "How's the World Treating You" and others with Chet. "Blue Echo" was later covered by Lenny Breau on his album "Boy Wonder".

"Finger Style Guitar" was recorded in one day.Atkins, Chet and Cochran, Russ. (2003). "Me and My Guitars". Milwaukee. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-634-05565-8.]

Track listing

ide one

# "Swedish Rhapsody" (Hugo Alfvén) – 2:30
# "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) – 2:45
# "In the Mood" (Joe Garland, Andy Razaf) – 2:15
# "Heartaches" (Al Hoffman, John Klenner) – 2:05
# "The Glow Worm" (Paul Lincke, Johnny Mercer) – 2:14
# "Dance of the Golden Rod" (Merle Travis) – 1:58

ide two

# "Petite Walz" (Traditional) – 2:48
# "La Adelita" (Francisco Tárrega) – 1:35
# "Gavotte in D" (François Joseph Gossec) – 1:39
# "Unchained Melody" (Alex North, Hy Zaret) – 2:55
# "Waltz in A Flat" (Johannes Brahms) – 1:47
# "Malaguena" (Ernesto Lecuona) – 2:45

Additional tracks:

# "The Lady Loves Me" (Giese, Heather, Long, Moesser)
# "New Spanish Two Step" (Bob Wills) (guitar duet with Hank Snow)
# "Reminiscing" (Snow) (guitar duet with Hank Snow)
# "Warm All Over" (Frank Loesser)
# "Big D" (Loesser)
# "Don't Cry" (Loesser)
# "Standing on the Corner" (Loesser)
# "Trambone" (Atkins)
# "Peanut Vendor" (Wolfe Gilbert, Moises Simons, Marion Sunshine) (with The Rhythm Rockers)
# "Blue Echo" (Atkins, Boudleaux Bryant)

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar
*Floyd Cramer – piano
*Farris Coursey – drums
*Murrey M. "Buddy" Harman Jr. – drums
*Ernie Newton – bass
*Jack Shook – rhythm guitar
*Hank Snow – guitar (on "New Spanish Two Step" and "Reminiscing")

References