Down Home (Chet Atkins album)

Down Home (Chet Atkins album)
Down Home
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released 1962
Recorded Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length 28:55
Label RCA Victor LSP-2450 (Stereo)
Producer Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Caribbean Guitar
(1962)		 Down Home
(1962)		 Our Man in Nashville
(1962)

Down Home is a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins.

After releasing the smooth pop and easy listening albums Chet Atkins' Workshop and The Most Popular Guitar, Chet returned to his roots with Down Home. The album peaked at No. 31 and returned Atkins to the Top 40. It includes two of Chet's signature tunes, "Windy and Warm" and "Trambone".

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars [1]

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "The contrast from his previous secular release couldn't have been more dramatic... Down Home outpolled The Most Popular Guitar by 88 places in the Billboard LP charts, returning him to the Top 40, which seemed to indicate that when you let Atkins do what he liked, his fans probably would like it too."[1]

Reissues

  • Down Home was re-released on CD by One Way Records along with The Most Popular Guitar in 1995.[2]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Salty Dog Rag" (Edward Crows, John Gordy) – 2:10
  2. "I Am a Pilgrim" (Merle Travis) – 3:03
  3. "Trambone" (Atkins) – 2:15
  4. "Steel Guitar Rag" (Leon McAuliffe, Cliffie Stone, Merle Travis) – 1:54
  5. "Little Feet" – 2:27
  6. "Blue Steel Blues" (Ted Daffan) – 2:19

Side two

  1. "Windy and Warm" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:26
  2. "I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow" (Atkins, Charlie Louvin) – 2:32
  3. "Never on Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis, Billy Towne) – 3:01
  4. "The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" (Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) – 2:15
  5. "Give the World a Smile" (Otis Deaton, M. L. Yandell) – 2:04
  6. "Tuxedo Junction" (Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins) – 2:07

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Ruhlman, William. "Down Home > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r91705. Retrieved July 2, 2011. 
  2. ^ AllMusic entry for reissue of Down Home and The Most Popular Guitar.

External links

v · Chet Atkins
Studio albums
Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar  · Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins  · A Session with Chet Atkins  · Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version)  · Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions  · Finger Style Guitar  · Chet Atkins at Home  · Hi-Fi in Focus  · Chet Atkins in Hollywood  · Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins  · Mister Guitar  · Teensville  · The Other Chet Atkins  · Chet Atkins' Workshop  · Christmas with Chet Atkins  · The Most Popular Guitar  · Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns  · Caribbean Guitar  · Down Home  · Our Man in Nashville  · Teen Scene  · Travelin'  · Guitar Country  · Progressive Pickin'  · My Favorite Guitars  · More of That Guitar Country  · Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles  · From Nashville with Love  · Music from Nashville, My Home Town  · It's a Guitar World  · Chet  · Picks the Best  · Class Guitar  · Hometown Guitar  · Solid Gold 68  · Solo Flights  · Lover's Guitar  · Solid Gold 69  · Yestergroovin'  · Solid Gold 70  · Pickin' My Way  · For the Good Times  · Picks on the Hits  · Alone  · The Night Atlanta Burned  · Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies  · Teen Scene  · Me and My Guitar  · Country After All These Years  · East Tennessee Christmas  · Work It out with Chet Atkins C.G.P.  · Stay Tuned  · Street Dreams  · Sails  · Chet Atkins, C.G.P.  · Read My Licks  · Almost Alone  · Solo Sessions  · Chet Atkins and His Guitar
Collaborations
Reminiscing  · The Pops Goes Country  · C. B. Atkins & C. E. Snow by Special Request  · Chet Atkins Picks on the Pops  · Me & Jerry  · Chet Floyd & Boots  · Me & Chet  · American Salute  · Superpickers  · The Atkins – Travis Traveling Show  · Chet Atkins Picks on Jerry Reed  · Chester & Lester  · Chet Floyd & Danny  · Guitar Monsters  · First Nashville Guitar Quartet  · Reflections  · Standard Brands  · Neck and Neck  · Sneakin' Around  · The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat  · Simpatico  · The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World
Live albums
After the Riot at Newport  · In Concert  · And Then Came Chet  · The Best of Chet on the Road — Live
With The Country All-Stars
With The Nashville String Band
Selected compilations
The Best of Chet Atkins  · The Best of Chet Atkins, Vol. 2  · The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends · Galloping Guitar: The Early Years  · Guitar Legend: The RCA Years  · Chet Picks on the Grammys  · The Essential Chet Atkins: The Columbia Years  · The Essential Chet Atkins  · Eclectic Guitar  · The Early Years 1946–1957

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