It's a Guitar World

Infobox Album
Name = It's a Guitar World
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins


Released = 1967
Recorded = RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre = Country, pop
Length = 31:15
Label = RCA Victor LSP-3728 (Stereo), LPM-3728 (Mono)
Producer = Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Felton Jarvis
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3ifpxqrgld0e link]

Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Music From Nashville, My Home Town"
(1966)
This album = It's a Guitar World
(1966)
Next album = "Chet"
(1967)

"It's a Guitar World" is the title of a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins.

Chet serves up a mixture of late 60s pop and world music. Harihar Rao adds sitar to "January in Bombay" and "Ranjana" with some interesting and also somewhat mystifying results. Recent hits by The Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey" and "What Now My Love" also get covered here. It reached #19 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No. 148 on the Pop Albums chart.

Track listing

ide one

# "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) – 2:13
# "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) – 2:23
# "Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)" (Maurice Jarre) – 3:10
# "A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott) – 2:41
# "For No One" (Lennon/McCartney) – 2:07

ide two

# "Pickin' Nashville" (Layne, Wilkerson) – 2:21
# "January in Bombay" (Atkins) – 3:05
# "Ranjana" (Rao) – 2:20
# "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)" (Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë, Carl Sigman) – 3:15
# "'Na voce, 'na chitarra e'o poco 'e luna" (Calise, Rosal) – 2:22
# "Star-Time" (Payne) – 2:15
# "Sempre" (Osborne) – 2:52

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar
*Harihar Rao - sitar