Almost Alone (Chet Atkins album)
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Almost Alone is an album by Chet Atkins
. He was 71 at the time of the album's release. It is almost all solo guitar instrumentals. "Jam Man" won the 1997 Grammy award for Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance.
Chet replaced the two low strings on a Country Gentleman guitar with bass strings on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow". There are no overdubs except for "Jam Man" and "You Do Something to Me". "Jam Man" uses a musical effect of the same name.
As part of the promotion for the release, Chet signed 125 Gibson Epiphone guitars that were given away in contests around the country.
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...
. He was 71 at the time of the album's release. It is almost all solo guitar instrumentals. "Jam Man" won the 1997 Grammy award for Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance.
Chet replaced the two low strings on a Country Gentleman guitar with bass strings on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow". There are no overdubs except for "Jam Man" and "You Do Something to Me". "Jam Man" uses a musical effect of the same name.
As part of the promotion for the release, Chet signed 125 Gibson Epiphone guitars that were given away in contests around the country.
Track listing
All songs by Chet Atkins unless noted.- "Big Foot" – 1:42
- "Waiting for Susie B." – 3:16
- "A Little Mark Musik" – 3:10
- "Jam Man" – 3:23
- "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" (Atkins, Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:00
- "Pu Uana Julu (Remembering Gabby)" (David Alapai) – 3:00
- "Happy Again" – 2:52
- "Sweet Alla Lee" – 2:53
- "Maybelle" – 3:11
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) – 3:06 - "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving BerlinIrving BerlinIrving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
) – 3:16 - "You Do Something to Me" (Cole PorterCole PorterCole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
) – 2:55 - "Ave Maria" (Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
) – 3:23
Personnel
- Chet Atkins - guitar, vocals
- Randy GoodrumRandy GoodrumRandy Goodrum is an American songwriter. Goodrum has written numerous popular songs, including Anne Murray's #1 hit "You Needed Me" and "Broken Hearted Me" , Michael Johnson's "Bluer Than Blue" , England Dan & John Ford Coley's "It's Sad to Belong" , Steve Perry's "Oh Sherrie" , DeBarge's "Who's...
- keyboards on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" - Randy Howard - fiddle on "Sweet Alla Lee"
- Paul Yandell - guitar on "Maybelle"
- Bergen White - string arrangements
- Nashville String Machine - strings
Production notes
- Engineered by Clark Hagen, Jim McKell, Chet Atkins
- Mastered by Jonathan Russell
- Mixed by Eric Rudd
Chart performance
| Chart (1996) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 74 |