Mister Guitar Explained

Mister Guitar
Type:	album
Artist:	Chet Atkins
Cover:	Mister_Guitar_Atkins.jpg
Caption:	The original LP album cover
Released:	October 1959
Recorded:	Nashville, TN
Genre:	Country, pop
Length:	24:43
Label:	RCA Victor LSP-2103 (Stereo)
Producer:	Chet Atkins
Chronology:	Chet Atkins
Prev Title:	Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins
Prev Year:	1959
Next Title:	After the Riot at Newport
Next Year:	1960

Mister Guitar is the eleventh studio album recorded by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1959. That title, as well as "Country Gentleman", became names assigned to Chet.

"Country Gentleman", co-written with Boudleaux Bryant, was a minor hit for Atkins in 1953. That original version was recorded in a garage.^[1] The liner notes are by David Halberstam, then writing for The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reissues

• Mister Guitar was packaged with Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions and released on CD in 1998 by One Way Records.
• In 2002, Mister Guitar was reissued with Chet Atkins' Workshop by Classic Compact Disc (Disc 2103).

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Know That You Know" (Anne Caldwell, Vincent Youmans) – 1:53
2. "Rainbow" (Alfred Bryan, Percy Wenrich) – 2:27
3. "Hello Bluebird" (Cliff Friend) – 2:06
4. "Siesta" (Atkins, James Rich) – 2:10
5. "Country Style" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:02
6. "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 2:06

Side two

1. "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (John Kellette, James Kendis, James Brockman, Nat Vincent) – 1:30
2. "Backwoods" (James Rich) – 2:09
3. "Country Gentleman" (Atkins, Boudleaux Bryant) – 1:53
4. "Slinkey" (Atkins) – 1:59
5. "Jessie" (Traditional) – 1:44
6. "Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – 2:27

Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar

Production notes

• Engineered by Bob Farris and Bill Porter

Notes and References

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