''Guitar Country'' is the twenty-fourth studio album by

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guitarist Chet Atkins. It was nominated for the 1964 Best Country & Western Album

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award but did not win. It reached number 1 on the Country albums charts. Prior to 1964, there was no separate genre chart for Country LPs, thus Chet's previous charting albums were on the Pop charts. Numerous future Atkins releases "crossed over" from the Country and Pop charts.

Reissues

* ''Guitar Country'' and ''More of That Guitar Country'' were reissued together on CD in 2001 on the Collectibles label.

Track listing

Side one

# " Freight Train" (Charles Albertine) – 2:03 # "A Little Bit of Blues" (

Jerry Reed Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008) was an American singer, guitarist, composer, and songwriter as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included " Guitar Man", " U.S. Male", "A Thi ...

) – 2:58 # "Nine Pound Hammer" (

Merle Travis Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States. His songs' lyrics often discussed both the lives and the economic expl ...

) – 2:26 # "Dobro" (Atkins,

Cy Coben Seymour "Cy" Coben (4 April 1919 – 26 May 2006) was an American songwriter, whose hits were recorded by bandleaders, country singers, and other artists such as The Beatles, Tommy Cooper and Leonard Nimoy. Biography Early life Coben was born ...

) – 1:59 # "Kentucky" (Karl Davis) – 2:53 # " Vaya con Dios" (Larry Russell, Inez James, Buddy Pepper) – 2:23

Side two

# "Winter Walkin'" (Jerry Reed) – 2:01 # "Guitar Country" (

Johnny Mercer John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallich ...

, Willard Robison) – 2:39 # "Sugarfoot Rag" (

Hank Garland Walter Louis Garland (11 November 1930 – 27 December 2004), professionally Hank Garland, was an American guitarist and songwriter. He started as a country musician, played rock and roll as it became popular in the 1950s, and released a jazz al ...

, Vaughn) – 2:01 # "Gone" (

Smokey Rogers Eugene Rogers (March 23, 1917–November 23, 1993), known professionally as Smokey Rogers, was an American Western swing musician and songwriter active during the 1940s and 50s on the West Coast. Born in McMinnville, Tennessee, Rogers joined ...

) – 2:01 # "

Copper Kettle "Copper Kettle" (also known as "Get you a Copper Kettle", "In the pale moonlight") is a song composed by Albert Frank Beddoe and made popular by Joan Baez. Pete Seeger's account dates the song to 1946, mentioning its probable folk origin,Pete See ...

" (Albert F. Beddoe) – 2:10 # "Yes Ma'am" (Jerry Reed) – 2:15

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar *

Ray Edenton Ray Quarles Edenton (November 3, 1926 – September 21, 2022) was an American guitar player and country music session musician. Early life Ray Edenton was born into a musical family on November 3, 1926, and grew up near Mineral, Virginia. His f ...

- rhythm guitar *

Henry Strzelecki Henry Pershing Strzelecki (August 8, 1939 – December 30, 2014) was a Nashville studio musician who performed with Roy Orbison, Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, and man ...

- bass *

Bill Pursell William Whitney Pursell (June 9, 1926 – September 3, 2020) was an American composer and onetime session pianist. He had a brief but successful career as a pop musician before continuing on as a session player. Pursell is best known for the to ...

- piano (Yes Ma'am) *

Floyd Cramer Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997) was an American pianist who became famous for his use of melodic "half step" attacks. He was inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His signature ...

- electric piano *Jim Carney - drums

Production notes

*Produced by Bob Ferguson * Bill Porter - recording engineer

References

{{Authority control 1964 albums Chet Atkins albums Albums produced by Bob Ferguson (music) RCA Victor albums