Alone (Chet Atkins album) explained

Alone
Type:	studio
Longtype:	LP
Artist:	Chet Atkins
Cover:	Chet_Atkins_Alone.jpg
Released:	1973
Recorded:	RCA "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre:	Country, pop
Label:	RCA Victor
Chronology:	Chet Atkins
Prev Title:	World's Greatest Melodies
Prev Year:	1972
Next Title:	Superpickers
Next Year:	1974

Alone is the forty-fourth studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins. It peaked at number 42 on the Billboard Country Album charts.

It was during the recording of this album that Chet was first diagnosed with colon cancer.^[1]

Reissues

• In 1989, RCA/Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued Pickin' My Way, Chet Atkins in Hollywood and Alone in a double CD set.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Hawaiian Slack Key" – 2:35
2. "The Claw" (Jerry Reed) – 2:16
3. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 2:01
4. "Flop Eared Mule and Other Classics"
5. "Over the Waves" (Juventino Rosas) – 2:30
6. "Just as I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:25

Side two

1. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) – 2:28
2. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) – 2:42
3. "Blue Finger" (Jerry Reed) – 2:36
4. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) – 2:30
5. "Londonderry Air" (arrangement: Atkins) – 2:58
6. "The Watkins Man" – 2:47

Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar, arrangements

Production notes

• Paul Yandell – arrangement – with Chet Atkins ("The Watkins Man")
• Jorge Morel – arrangement ("Take Five")
• Bill Vandevort – engineer
• Mike Shockley – recording technician
• Jimmy Moore – cover photo

Notes and References

1. Atkins, Chet and Neely, Bill. (1974). "Country Gentleman". Chicago. Harry Regnery Company. .