It's a Guitar World is the title of a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins

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...

, released in 1966.

Atkins serves up a mixture of late 60s 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

Billboard charts

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 Country Albums chart and No. 148 on the 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.

Side one

1. "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles
   Ray Charles
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   ) – 2:13
2. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind
   Cast Your Fate to the Wind
   "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" is an American jazz piece written and originally recorded by Vince Guaraldi, with lyrics later added by Carel Werber. It won a Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition in 1963...
   
   " (Vince Guaraldi
   Vince Guaraldi
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   ) – 2:23
3. "Lara's Theme (from Doctor Zhivago)
   Lara's Theme
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   " (Maurice Jarre
   Maurice Jarre
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   ) – 3:10
4. "A Taste of Honey
   A Taste of Honey (song)
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   " (Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott) – 2:41
5. "For No One
   For No One
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   " (Lennon/McCartney
   Lennon/McCartney
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   ) – 2:07

Side two

1. "Pickin' Nashville" (Joe Layne, Jimmy Wilkerson) – 2:21
2. "January in Bombay" (Atkins) – 3:05
3. "Ranjana" (Karihar Rao) – 2:20
4. "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)
   What Now My Love (song)
   "What Now, My Love?" is the English title of a popular song whose original French version, "Et Maintenant" was written in 1961 by composer Gilbert Bécaud and lyricist Pierre Delanoë...
   
   " (Gilbert Bécaud
   Gilbert Bécaud
   Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love"...
   
   , Pierre Delanoë
   Pierre Delanoë
   Pierre Delanoë , born Pierre Leroyer, was a French songwriter/lyricist who wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Petula Clark, and Johnny Hallyday....
   
   , Carl Sigman
   Carl Sigman
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   ) – 3:15
5. "'Na voce, 'na chitarra e'o poco 'e luna" (Ugo Calise, C. A. Rosa) – 2:22
6. "Star-Time" (Leon Payne) – 2:15
7. "Sempre" (Sonny Osborne) – 2:52