Our Man in Nashville


Our Man in Nashville is the twentieth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1963. RCA did a series of "Our Man in..." and Chet was indeed their man in Nashville. He was producing and developing the "Nashville sound".
The album is primarily notable for featuring Atkins's first recordings of instrumentals composed by Jerry Reed. During the next thirty-two years Reed provided Atkins with more than thirty original guitar compositions.
The album reached No. 135 on the Billboard's Top albums chart, during a five-week stay on it.
Our Man in Nashville is out of print.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "Chester remains his usual unclassifiable self, dealing out the country picking, smooth easy listening guitar, jazz, and even some very mild rock & roll on this session, with some overdubbed strings discreetly decorating a few tracks... And, as on so many Atkins albums, there is at least one track that one can develop a guilty addiction to for no particular reason; here, it's the happy-go-lucky "Always on Saturday.""

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Scare Crow" – 2:19
  2. "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
  3. "Melissa" – 2:16
  4. "Goodnight Irene" – 2:41
  5. "Old Double Shuffle" – 2:58
  6. "Down Home" – 2:03

Side two

  1. "Always on Saturday" – 2:10
  2. "Drown in My Own Tears" – 2:14
  3. "Spanish Harlem" – 2:53
  4. "Streamlined Cannonball" – 2:35
  5. "House in New Orleans" – 2:13
  6. "A Little Bitty Tear" – 2:31

Personnel