Almost Alone (Chet Atkins album)

Infobox Album
Name = Almost Alone
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Chet Atkins


Released = May 1996
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Columbia
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dzfwxqrhld6e link]
* Country Standard Time [http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=498&t=Almost_Alone link]
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Simpatico"
(1994)
This album = "Almost Alone"
(1996)
Next album ="The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World"
(1997)

"Almost Alone" is a an album by Chet Atkins. He was 71 at the time of the album's release. It is almost all solo guitar instrumentals. "Jam Man" won the 1997 Grammy award for Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance.

Chet replaced the two low strings on a Country Gentleman guitar with bass strings on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow". There are no overdubs except for "Jam Man" and "You Do Something to Me". "Jam Man" uses a musical effect of the same name. [Atkins, Chet. Chet Atkins Almost Alone. (1998) Hal Leonard Publishing. ISBN 0-7935-6875-7.]

As part of the promotion for the release, Chet signed 125 Gibson Epiphone guitars that were given away in contests around the country. [Stambler, I and Landon, G. Country Music: The Encyclopedia. (1997) McMillan. ]

Track listing

All songs by Chet Atkins unless noted.

# "Big Foot" – 1:42
# "Waiting for Susie B." – 3:16
# "A Little Mark Musik" – 3:10
# "Jam Man" – 3:23
# "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" (Atkins, Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:00
# "Pu Uana Julu (Remembering Gabby)" (David Alapai) – 3:00
# "Happy Again" – 2:52
# "Sweet Alla Lee" – 2:53
# "Maybelle" – 3:11
# "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 3:06
# "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:16
# "You Do Something to Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:55
# "Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert) – 3:23

Personnel

*Chet Atkins - guitar, vocals
*Randy Goodrum - keyboards on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow"
*Randy Howard - fiddle on "Sweet Alla Lee"
*Paul Yandell - guitar on "Maybelle"
*Bergen White - string arrangements
*Nashville String Machine - strings

Production notes

*Engineered by Clark Hagen, Jim McKell, Chet Atkins
*Mastered by Jonathan Russell
*Mixed by Eric Rudd

References

External links

* [http://www.vintageguitar.com/features/artists/details.asp?AID=2057 Chet Atkins Interview - Vintage Guitar Magazine - June 1996]