| The Night Atlanta Burned | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Chet Atkins |
| Cover: | Night_Atlanta_Burned.jpg |
| Released: | 1975 |
| Recorded: | RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN |
| Genre: | Country, folk, bluegrass |
| Length: | 27:15 |
| Label: | RCA Victor |
| Producer: | Bob Ferguson and Chet Atkins |
| Chronology: | Chet Atkins |
| Prev Title: | Chet Atkins Picks on Jerry Reed |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Next Title: | Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies |
| Next Year: | 1976 |
The Night Atlanta Burned is the forty-sixth studio album by Chet Atkins, credited to "The Atkins String Co." — a quartet comprising Chet, Johnny Gimble, Paul Yandell and Lisa Silver. The album is a fusion of classical musical techniques with country, folk and bluegrass.
The liner notes are by John D. Loudermilk, discussing the burning of Atlanta and the Atlanta Conservatory of Music during the American Civil War.
Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "With all the hype about the Yo-Yo Ma/Mark O'Connor/Edgar Meyer Appalachia Waltz projects of the 1990s, it's enlightening to discover the seeds of that classical/country/bluegrass fusion right here, some 20 years ahead of the game."
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