Solo Flights

Infobox Album
Name = Solo Flights
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins


Released = 1968
Recorded = RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = RCA Victor
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifpxqrgld0e link]
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Solid Gold 68"
(1968)
This album = "Solo Flights"
(1968)
Next album = "Lover's Guitar"
(1969)

"Solo Flights" is the title of a recording by Chet Atkins. Side one of this album features Chet's experiment with the "Octabass Guitar" wherein he replaced the two lower strings (the E and A strings) with heavier gauges in order to drop an octave and create a fuller sound.

Track listing

ide one

There are no track times listed on either the sleeve or record.
# "Drive In" (Rich)
# "Three Little Words" (Burt Kalmar, Harry Ruby)
# "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer)
# "Chet's Tune" (Cohen)
# "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul)
# "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin)

ide two

# "Cindy Oh Cindy" (Robert Barron, Burt Long)
# "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Ned Washington, Leigh Harline)
# "Music to Watch Girls By" (Sid Ramin, Tony Velona)
# "Choro da Saudate" (Agustín Barrios)
# "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (Milton Kellem)
# "Georgy Girl" (Jim Dale, Tom Springfield)

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar