Atkins,Chet Singles Collection 1946-62 CD

Chet Atkins was one of the most innovative and influential personalities in country music in the post-war decades, both as a highly skilled and distinctive finger-picking guitarist, and as a record producer and session musician, helping to shape the "Nashville" sound which helped broaden the popularity of country music in the late '50s. This great-value 59-track 2-CD collection focuses on his work as a recording artist, covering a period over more than a decade and a half during which he progressed from being a journeyman country musician to one of the most respected and imitated guitarists in all of popular music, not just country, with major rock artists later citing him as a key influence. Deriving his style from influences as diverse as Merle Travis and Django Reinhardt, he developed a finger-style technique which set him apart from his peers and gave his music and recordings an increasingly distinctive flavour. This anthology comprises selected A and B sides from the singles he released during the period covered by this collection, so that it provides a fascinating musical journey through the years when his stature within the business inexorably grew, and his work as a performer became overshadowed by his studio work with other artists, and his A&R role at RCA. It naturally offers plenty of examples of his unique skill as a guitarist but also shows the many sides of his talents as singer, bandleader and songwriter, and includes all the country chart entries he had during this time with "Mr. Sandman", "Silver Bell", "Jean's Song", "Boo Boo Stick Beat, "One Mint Julep" and "Jingle Bell Rock".

1. Guitar Blues - Pickin' the Blues 2. Canned Heat 3. Ain'tcha Tired of Makin' Me Blue 4. Bug Dance - Chet Atkins ; His Colorado Mountain Boys 5. I've Been Working on the Guitar - Chet Atkins ; His Colorado Mountain Boys 6. I Know When I'm Blue - Chet Atkins ; His Colorado Mountain Boys 7. Dizzy Strings 8. I'm Pickin' the Blues - Chet Atkins ; His Colorado Mountain Boys 9. Barnyard Shuffle - Chet Atkins ; His Colorado Mountain Boys 10. Nashville Jump - Chet Atkins ; His Colorado Mountain Boys 11. Galloping Guitar - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 12. Barber Shop Rag - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 13. Telling My Troubles to My Old Guitar - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 14. Centipede Boogie - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 15. One More Chance - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 16. Main Street Boogie 17. Boogie Man Boogie 18. I Was Bitten By the Same Bug Twice 19. The Birth of the Blues - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 20. Indian Love Call 21. You're Always Brand New - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 22. Mountain Melody - Chet Atkins ; His Guitar Pickers 23. The Jitterbug Waltz 24. Crazy Rhythm 25. Hybrid Corn 26. Sweet Bunch of Daisies - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 27. Good-Bye Blues - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 28. Rainbow - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 29. Spanish Fandango - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 30. Chinatown, My Chinatown - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 31. Hangover Blues - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 32. Lover Come Back to Me - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 33. Third Man Theme - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 34. Midnight - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 35. Rustic Dance - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 36. Fig Leaf Rag 37. High Rockin' Swing 38. Country Gentleman - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 39. City Slicker - Chet Atkins ; His Galloping Guitar 40. Wildwood Flower 41. Downhill Drag 42. Kentucky Derby 43. San Antonio Rose 44. Mr. Sandman 45. Silver Bell - Hank Snow ; Chet Atkins 46. The Poor People of Paris - Jean's Song 47. Trambone 48. Tricky - the Rhythm Rockers with Chet Atkins 49. Hidden Charms 50. Boo Boo Stick Beat 51. Django's Castle 52. Teensville 53. One Mint Julep 54. Slinkey 55. Theme from "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" 56. The Slop 57. Warm and Windy 58. Jingle Bell Rock 59. Melissa