Chet (Chet Atkins album)
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Chet is a studio album by American
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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 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 1967.

Reissues

  • Chet was reissued on CD in 2006 combined with Music From Nashville, My Home Town
    Music From Nashville, My Home Town
    Music From Nashville, My Home Town is the title of a 1966 recording by Chet Atkins. It was re-released on CD in 2006 combined with Chet. Both were originally released on RCA's budget label Camden."Prancin' Filly" was written by Atkins' father, James A...

    .

Side one

  1. "Foggy Mountain Top" (Carter)
  2. "Truck Driver's Blues" (Ted Daffan
    Ted Daffan
    Theron Eugene "Ted" Daffan was an American country musician noted for composing the seminal Truck Driver's Blues and the much covered Country anthem Born to Lose.-Early years:...

    )
  3. "Bandera" (Atkins)
  4. "Make the World Go Away
    Make the World Go Away
    "Make the World Go Away" is a country-popular music song composed by Hank Cochran. It has become a Top 40 popular success three times: for Timi Yuro , for Eddy Arnold , and for the brother-sister duo Donny and Marie Osmond . The original version of the song was recorded by Ray Price during...

    " (Hank Cochran
    Hank Cochran
    Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...

    )
  5. "Oh Baby Mine
    (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely
    " I Get So Lonely" is a popular song. It was written by Pat Ballard and was published in 1953.The biggest hit version was done by The Four Knights in 1954.Anne Shelton with Ken Mackintosh and his orchestra recorded it in London on March 3, 1954...

    " (Pat Ballard
    Pat Ballard
    Pat Ballard born Francis Drake Ballard was an American songwriter.He composed "Mr. Sandman" and " I Get So Lonely".-References:...

    )

Side two

  1. "Oklahoma Hills" (Woody Guthrie
    Woody Guthrie
    Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...

    )
  2. "Just Out of Reach (Stewart)
  3. "Wabash Cannonball
    Wabash Cannonball
    "The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "" and credited to J. A. Roff...

    " (Carter)
  4. "Release Me
    Release Me (1946 song)
    "Release Me" is a popular song written by Eddie Miller, Robert Yount, and James Pebworth , published in 1946.Miller wrote the song in 1946 but could not get anyone to record it for years, so he recorded it himself in 1953. Shortly afterward it was covered by Jimmy Heap, and with even better success...

    " (Eddie Miller
    Eddie Miller (songwriter)
    Edward Monroe "Eddie" Miller was an American songwriter, in the country music genre.He was born in Camargo, Oklahoma and worked as a locomotive engineer before becoming a songwriter...

    , W. S. Stevenson)
  5. "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" (Traditional)
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