Guitar Country


Guitar Country is the twenty-fourth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins. The album was a nominee for the 1964 Best Country & Western Album Grammy award, however it was beat out by Roger Miller's "Dang Me/ Chug-A-Lug". The album stayed on the Country albums charts for 33 weeks, peaking at #1 in May 1964. Prior to 1964, there was no separate genre chart for Country LPs, thus Chet's previous charting albums were on the Pop charts. Numerous future Atkins releases "crossed over" from the Country and Pop charts. The album did well on the pop charts too, reaching No. 112 in the US.

Reissues

Guitar Country and More of That Guitar Country were reissued together on CD in 2001 on the Collectibles label.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Freight Train" – 2:03
  2. "A Little Bit of Blues" – 2:58
  3. "Nine Pound Hammer" – 2:26
  4. "Dobro" – 1:59
  5. "Kentucky" – 2:53
  6. "Vaya con Dios" – 2:23

Side two

  1. "Winter Walkin'" – 2:01
  2. "Guitar Country" – 2:39
  3. "Sugarfoot Rag" – 2:01
  4. "Gone" – 2:01
  5. "Copper Kettle" – 2:10
  6. "Yes Ma'am" – 2:15

Personnel

Production notes