Me and My Guitar (Chet Atkins album)

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Me and My Guitar
Studio album by
Released1977
RecordedRCA's "Nashville Sound" Studios, Nashville, TN
GenreCountry
Length30:41
LabelRCA Victor APL1-2405
Chet Atkins chronology
The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends
(1976)
Me and My Guitar
(1977)
Chet Floyd & Danny
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide[2]

Me and My Guitar is the forty-eighth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It was nominated for the Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance Grammy in 1978. Atkins joined Floyd Cramer and Danny Davis that same year to produce Chet Floyd & Danny which was also nominated.

Lenny Breau appears on "Long, Long Ago" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To".

Reissues

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Track listing

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Side one

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  1. "Cascade" (Gene Slone) – 2:23
  2. "West Memphis Serenade" (Bobby Braddock)– 2:35
  3. "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Bayly) – 2:53
  4. "All Thumbs" (Mark Casstevens) – 2:20
  5. "Vincent (Don McLean) – 3:12
  6. "Me and My Guitar" (James Taylor) – 2:40

Side two

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  1. "Struttin'" (Jerry Reed) – 2:31
  2. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 3:10
  3. "David's Dance" (Odell Martin) – 3:07
  4. "A Song for Anna" (Andre Popp) – 2:42
  5. "My Little Waltz" (Atkins, John Knowles) – 2:25

Personnel

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Production notes

  • Engineered by Bill Vandervort, Bill Harris, Chuck Seitz, Al Pachucki
  • Mastered by Randy King

References

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  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 13.
  3. ^ AllMusic entry for reissue of Me and My Guitar and First Nashville Guitar Quartet.