Pickin' My Way Explained

Pickin' My Way
Type:	album
Artist:	Chet Atkins
Cover:	Pickin_My_Way.jpg
Released:	1970
Recorded:	RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre:	Country, pop
Length:	27:49
Label:	RCA Victor
Producer:	Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed
Chronology:	Chet Atkins
Prev Title:	Yestergroovin
Prev Year:	1970
Next Title:	Strung Up
Next Year:	1971

Pickin' My Way is the forty-first studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins. It reached number 13 on the Billboard Country charts. The liner notes are by Johnny Cash.

Reissues

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

Track listing

Side one

1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:23
2. "The Boxer" (Paul Simon) – 3:46
3. "Hellacious" – 2:44
4. "I Never Knew" – 2:13
5. "Wabash Blues" – 3:02

Side two

1. "Black Mountain Rag" – 2:40
2. "Junk" (Paul McCartney) – 2:13
3. "When You Wish upon a Star" (Ned Washington, Leigh Harline) – 3:09
4. "Floatin' Down to Cotton Town" (Harold G. Frost, Henri F. Kickman) – 2:22
5. "Pickin' My Way" (Shirley Eikhard)– 2:18

Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar

Production notes

• Produced by Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed
• Bill Vandervort – engineer
• Tom Pick – engineer
• Mike Shockley – recording technician
• Ray Butts – recording technician
• Dick Cobb – cover photo

External links

• Chet Atkins Official Site discography