Guitar Monsters

Infobox Album
Name = Guitar Monsters
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins, Les Paul


Released = 1978
Recorded =
Genre = Country, jazz
Length = 31:16
Label = RCA APL1-2786
Producer = Bob Ferguson
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:jjfqxql5ldde link]
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Chet Floyd & Danny"
(1977)
This album = "Guitar Monsters"
(1978)
Next album = "First Nashville Guitar Quartet"
(1979)

"Guitar Monsters" is the title of a recording by Chet Atkins and Les Paul. It is their second collaboration together after their Grammy award winning release "Chester & Lester".

At the Grammy Awards of 1978, "Guitar Monsters" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance.

"Guitar Monsters" and "Chester and Lester" were re-released on one CD in 1998 by One Way Records. Both were released on CD in 1989 by Pair Records as "Masters of the Guitar: Together" with some tracks omitted. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3pfrxqwgldfe Allmusic review of Masters of the Guitar.] ]

Track listing

ide one

# "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) - 2:50
# "I Want to be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) - 3:41
# "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:41
# "Meditation" - 2:32
# "Lazy RIver" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin ) - 3:01
# "I'm Your Greatest Fan" - 3:49

ide two

# "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 2:58
# "I Surrender Dear" (Barris, Clifford) - 4:04
# "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Russell) - 2:41
# "Give My Love to Nell" (Traditional) - 2:53
# "Hot Toddy" (Ralph Flanagan) - 3:00

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar
*Les Paul – guitar

References