It's a Guitar World
1967 studio album by Chet Atkins
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Studio album by Chet Atkins | ||||
Released | 1967 | |||
Recorded | RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN | |||
Genre | Country, pop | |||
Length | 31:15 | |||
Label | RCA Victor LSP-3728 (Stereo), LPM-3728 (Mono) | |||
Producer | Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Felton Jarvis | |||
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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 #19 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No. 148 on the Pop Albums chart.
Reception
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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."[1]
Reissues
- It's a Guitar World was reissued on CD along with My Favorite Guitars in 1995 on One Way Records.[2]
Track listing
Side one
- "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) – 2:13
- "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) – 2:23
- "Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)" (Maurice Jarre) – 3:10
- "A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott) – 2:41
- "For No One" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:07
Side two
- "Pickin' Nashville" (Joe Layne, Jimmy Wilkerson) – 2:21
- "January in Bombay" (Atkins) – 3:05
- "Ranjana" (Harihar Rao) – 2:20
- "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)" (Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë, Carl Sigman) – 3:15
- "'Na voce, 'na chitarra e'o poco 'e luna" (Ugo Calise, C. A. Rosa) – 2:22
- "Star-Time" (Leon Payne) – 2:15
- "Sempre" (Sonny Osborne) – 2:52
Personnel
- Chet Atkins – guitar
- Harihar Rao - sitar
References
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- Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar
- Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins
- A Session with Chet Atkins
- Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version)
- Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions
- Finger Style Guitar
- Chet Atkins at Home
- Hi-Fi in Focus
- Chet Atkins in Hollywood
- Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins
- Mister Guitar
- Teensville
- The Other Chet Atkins
- Chet Atkins' Workshop
- Christmas with Chet Atkins
- The Most Popular Guitar
- Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
- Caribbean Guitar
- Down Home
- Our Man in Nashville
- Teen Scene
- The Guitar Genius
- Travelin'
- Guitar Country
- Progressive Pickin'
- My Favorite Guitars
- More of That Guitar Country
- Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles
- From Nashville with Love
- Music from Nashville, My Home Town
- It's a Guitar World
- Chet
- Picks the Best
- Class Guitar
- Hometown Guitar
- Solid Gold 68
- Solo Flights
- Lover's Guitar
- Solid Gold 69
- Yestergroovin'
- Solid Gold 70
- Pickin' My Way
- For the Good Times
- Picks on the Hits
- Alone
- The Night Atlanta Burned
- Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies
- Teen Scene
- Me and My Guitar
- Country After All These Years
- East Tennessee Christmas
- Work It Out with Chet Atkins C.G.P.
- Stay Tuned
- Street Dreams
- Sails
- Chet Atkins, C.G.P.
- Read My Licks
- Almost Alone
- Solo Sessions
- Chet Atkins and His Guitar
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Boston Pops | |
Jerry Reed | |
Country All-Stars | |
Nashville String Band |
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Les Paul | |
Others |
compilations
- The Best of Chet Atkins
- The Best of Chet Atkins, Vol. 2
- The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends
- Galloping Guitar: The Early Years
- Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
- Chet Picks on the Grammys
- The Essential Chet Atkins: The Columbia Years
- The Essential Chet Atkins
- Eclectic Guitar
- The Early Years 1946–1957