Alone (Chet Atkins album)

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


Released = 1973
Recorded = RCA "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre = Country, pop
Length =
Label = RCA Victor
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|2.25|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kifixqrgldke link]
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "World's Greatest Melodies"
(1972)
This album = "Alone"
(1973)
Next album = "Superpickers"
(1974)

"Alone" is an album by guitarist Chet Atkins. It peaked at number 42 on the Billboard Country Album charts.

It was during the recording of this album that Chet was first diagnosed with colon cancer.Atkins, Chet and Neely, Bill. (1974). "Country Gentleman". Chicago. Harry Regnery Company. ISBN 0-8092-9051-0.]

In 1989, RCA/Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs re-released "Pickin' My Way", "Chet Atkins in Hollywood" and "Alone" in a double CD set.

Track listing

ide one

# "Hawaiian Slack Key" – 2:35
# "The Claw" (Jerry Reed) – 2:16
# "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 2:01
# "Flop Eared Mule and Other Classics"
# "Over the Waves" (Traditional) – 2:30
# "Just as I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:25

ide two

# "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) – 2:28
# "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) – 2:42
# "Blue Finger" – 2:36
# "Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) – 2:30
# "Londonderry Air" (arrangement: Atkins) – 2:58
# "The Watkins Man" – 2:47

Personnel

*Chet Atkins - guitar, arrangementsProduction notes
*Paul Yandell – arrangement - with Chet Atkins ("The Watkins Man")
*Jorge Morel – arrangement ("Take Five")
*Bill Vandevort – engineer
*Mike Shockley – recording technician
*Jimmy Moore – cover photo

References