Chet Atkins - My Guitar Is My Sweatheart, 1946-1956 - The Indispensable Chet Atkins (2025)

The legendary Chet Atkins was much more than the emblematic country music guitar player. A guitar master and celebrity with a unique, subtle, sharp and clean sound, with a compelling fingerpicking style, he embodied the American guitar myth. A giant nicknamed Mister Guitar, he became a session man for Elvis Presley and hundreds more; an influential Producer who created the Nashville Sound and a precursor of surf rock, the hard-working Atkins involved himself in a number of genres with finesse and style: rock, pop, as well as blues, jazz, gypsy music, classical and, of course, country. The classic Gretsch Country Gentleman electric guitar was named after one of his tunes and several guitars were soon labeled the Chet Atkins models. Indispensable to any guitar lover, the cream of his dazzling solo recordings is packed into this definitive anthology of his golden age, concocted and annotated by Bruno Blum.

Tracklist:
1-1 Chet Atkins - Guitar Blues [2:49]
1-2 Chet Atkins - Canned Heat [2:33]
1-3 Chet Atkins - Standing Room Only [2:53]
1-4 Chet Atkins - Bug Dance [2:56]
1-5 Chet Atkins - The Nashville Jump [2:30]
1-6 Chet Atkins - My Guitar Is My Sweetheart [2:39]
1-7 Chet Atkins - I'm Picking The Blues [2:49]
1-8 Chet Atkins - Barnyard Shuffle [2:51]
1-9 Chet Atkins - Dizzy Strings [2:43]
1-10 Chet Atkins - Galloping On The Guitar [2:29]
1-11 Chet Atkins - Barber Shop Rag [2:49]
1-12 Chet Atkins - Centipede Boogie [2:40]
1-13 Chet Atkins - Main Street Breakdown [2:19]
1-14 Chet Atkins - Boogie Man Boogie [2:50]
1-15 Chet Atkins - Indian Love Call 1 [2:40]
1-16 Chet Atkins - Birth Of The Blues [2:34]
1-17 Chet Atkins - Mountain Melody [2:11]
1-18 Chet Atkins - Hybrid Corn [2:17]
1-19 Chet Atkins - Jitterbug Waltz [2:39]
1-20 Chet Atkins - One Man Boogie [2:41]
1-21 Chet Atkins - Crazy Rhythm [2:25]
1-22 Chet Atkins - Rainbow [2:38]
1-23 Chet Atkins - In The Mood [2:20]
1-24 Chet Atkins - Blue Gypsy [2:20]
1-25 Chet Atkins - The Third Man Theme [2:27]
1-26 Chet Atkins - Saint Louis Blues [2:16]
2-27 Chet Atkins - Nobody's Sweetheart [2:16]
2-28 Chet Atkins - Lover, Come Back To Me! [2:28]
2-29 Chet Atkins - Black Mountain Rag [2:18]
2-30 Chet Atkins - Imagination [2:14]
2-31 Chet Atkins - Pig Leaf Rag [2:31]
2-32 Chet Atkins - Oh By Jingo! [2:16]
2-33 Chet Atkins - Hello! Ma Baby [2:11]
2-34 Chet Atkins - Country Gentleman [2:16]
2-35 Chet Atkins - Memphis Blues [2:11]
2-36 Chet Atkins - Alice Blue Gown [2:06]
2-37 Chet Atkins - Twelfth Street Rag [2:21]
2-38 Chet Atkins - Georgia Camp Meeting [2:15]
2-39 Chet Atkins - Dill Pickles Rag [2:26]
2-40 Chet Atkins - Beautiful Ohio [2:19]
2-41 Chet Atkins - Frankie And Johnny [2:36]
2-42 Chet Atkins - Caravan [3:28]
2-43 Chet Atkins - Mister Sandman [2:18]
2-44 Chet Atkins - Dance With Me Henry [2:21]
2-45 Chet Atkins - Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup [2:22]
2-46 Chet Atkins - Tweedle Dee [2:25]
2-47 Chet Atkins - Unchained Melody [2:28]
2-48 Chet Atkins - Intermezzo [2:32]
2-49 Chet Atkins - Tenderly [3:25]
2-50 Chet Atkins - Minute Waltz [1:48]
2-51 Chet Atkins - Minuet [2:31]
2-52 Chet Atkins - Indian Love Call 2 [2:57]