Yestergroovin
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Yestergroovin' is an album by guitarist Chet Atkins
, released in 1970. Yestergroovin' was nominated for the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance
. It did not win, but Chet's collaboration with Jerry Reed
Me and Jerry did. He would be nominated twice in the same category again in 1973.
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 1970. Yestergroovin
Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 2011. Between 1986 and 1989 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance ....
. It did not win, but Chet's collaboration with Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...
Me and Jerry did. He would be nominated twice in the same category again in 1973.
Reception
Allmusic stated that it is "a throwback to some of his earlier, less-cluttered, more musical albums. It's a relaxed, friendly, assured package... Lovely record; one of his best from this period.".Side one
- "Steeplechase Lane" (Jerry Reed HubbardJerry ReedJerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...
) - "Tennessee Pride"
- "Rocky Top" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux BryantFelice and Boudleaux BryantFelice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team best known for songs such as "Rocky Top," "Love Hurts" and numerous Everly Brothers hits, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".-Beginnings:Boudleaux was born Diadorius...
) - "Gotta Travel On"
- "Cherokee" (Ray NobleRay Noble (musician)Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day...
) – 2:38 - "Country Champagne" – 2:30
Side two
- "Liberty" – 2:42
- "Inka Dinka DooInka Dinka DooInka Dinka Doo is a 1933 popular song with words and lyrics written by Jimmy Durante and Ben Ryan. By 1934 the song was a major hit record and it became Durante's theme song for the rest of his life....
" – 2:43 (Jimmy DuranteJimmy DuranteJames Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...
, Ben RyanBen Ryan (composer)Bennett A. "Ben" Ryan was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics to the popular song Heart of My Heart...
) - "Bring Me Sunshine" (Sylvia Dee, Arthur Kent) – 2:40
- "Yestergroovin'"
- "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 3:00