''Superpickers'' is a 1974 album by guitarist Chet Atkins and top recording session players in Nashville, TN. "Fiddlin' Around" reached No. 75 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.

Reception

Writing for

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, critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "Atkins joins together with an A-list of Nashville session musicians for a set of picking extravaganzas... Atkins himself is goaded into some wonderful playing as a result, and ''Superpickers'' is one of his best albums."

Reissues

* ''Superpickers'' was reissued on CD in 1998 along with ''

Picks on the Hits ''Picks on the Hits'' is the forty-third studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1972. It was nominated for the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance but did not win. Chet's duet release with Jerry Reed ''Me & Chet ...

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Track listing

Side one

# "Paramaribo" (

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) – 2:27 # "Fiddlin' Around" ( Johnny Gimble) – 3:06 # " Mr. Bojangles" ( Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:35 # "Beef and Biscuits" (

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) – 2:35 # " Sweet Dreams" ( Don Gibson) – 2:44

Side two

# "Just Another Rag" (Atkins, Jerry Reed Hubbard) – 2:38 # "Canadian Pacific" (

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) – 3:50 # " City of New Orleans" (

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) – 3:26 # "Bells of Saint Mary's" (Doug Tringer) – 2:51 # "

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Personnel

*Chet Atkins -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Johnny Gimble -

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

Buddy Spicher Buddy Spicher (born July 28, 1938 in DuBois, Pennsylvania; pronounced “Spiker”) is an American country music fiddle player. He is a member of The Nashville A-Team of session musicians, and is Grammy-nominated. He was nominated as Instrumental ...

* Buddy Harman -

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* Charlie McCoy -

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

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*Jerry Shook - guitar *Farrell Morris – percussion * Hargus "Pig" Robbins -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

Larrie Londin Ralph Gallant (October 15, 1943 − August 24, 1992), better known by the stage name Larrie Londin, was an American drummer and session musician. According to journalist James Byron Fox, "If not the best known, Larrie is one of the most listene ...

- drums *Paul Yandell - guitar, ukulele *

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 ...

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*Bobby Thompson -

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, guitar

References

{{Authority control Chet Atkins albums 1974 albums Albums produced by Chet Atkins Albums produced by Bob Ferguson (music) RCA Records albums