It's a Guitar World


It's a Guitar World is the thirty-first studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1966.
Atkins serves up a mixture of late 1960s pop and world music. Harihar Rao adds sitar to "January in Bombay" and "Ranjana" with some interesting and also somewhat mystifying results. Recent hits by The Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey" and "What Now My Love" also get covered here. It reached No. 19 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No. 148 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the reissue "This attractive LP from Chester Burton Atkins purports to leap international boundaries, but for the most part, he stays right home in Nashville."

Reissues

It's a Guitar World was reissued on CD along with My Favorite Guitars in 1995 on One Way Records.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "What'd I Say" – 2:13
  2. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" – 2:23
  3. "Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)" – 3:10
  4. "A Taste of Honey" – 2:41
  5. "For No One" – 2:07

Side two

  1. "Pickin' Nashville" – 2:21
  2. "January in Bombay" – 3:05
  3. "Ranjana" – 2:20
  4. "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)" – 3:15
  5. "'Na voce, 'na chitarra e'o poco 'e luna" – 2:22
  6. "Star-Time" – 2:15
  7. "Siempre" – 2:52

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Harihar Rao – sitar