Chet Atkins - Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar (1952)

"Canned Heat" by Chet Atkins


The Everly Brothers's connection in the music industry was none other than legendary country singer and musician Chet "Mr. Guitar" Atkins, who pushed the duo to a successful career even after a few misfires.  That all took place at the first peak of his career.  For more than a decade before then, Chet Atkins was an itinerant session musician who wandered from country radio station to country radio station wowing executives and DJs with his finger-picking style of playing while simultaneously being dismissed for "not being country enough".  Still, he performed with the biggest names in country music, while his reputation as a skilled musician and upstanding individual grew over the years as did his singles output.  Starting with the jazz-influenced "Guitar Blues" in 1946 recorded at The Grand Ole Opry with only a clarinetist for accompaniment, Atkins would eventually release five to six singles for RCA Victor per year with various other musicians and singers, occasionally singing himself.  This was all before his first, purely instrumental 10" LP was released in 1952 called Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar.  He had no hits but this would slowly change.

Here is the discography surrounding Chet Atkins's debut album:

Guitar Blues (1946 single)
Canned Heat (1947 single)
Standing Room Only (1947 single)
Bug Dance (1948 single)
I Know When I'm Blue (1948 single)
Dizzy Strings (1948 single)
I'm Pickin' the Blues (1948 single)
Money, Marbles and Chalk (1949 single)
Barber Shop Rag (1949 single)
Telling My Troubles to My Old Guitar (1949 single)
Centipede Boogie (1949 single)
Galloping Guitar (1949 single)
One More Chance (1950 single)
Main Street Breakdown (1950 single)
Boogie Man Boogie (1950 single)
Confusin' (1950 single)
Indian Love Call (1951 single)
Mountain Melody (1951 single)
My Crazy Heart (1951 single)
Crazy Rhythm (1951 single)
In the Mood (1951 single)
Rainbow (1952 single)
Spanish Fandango (1952 single)
Meet Mr. Callaghan (1952 single)
Tennessee Rag (1952 single)
Galloping on the Guitar (1952 single)
St. Louis Blues (1952 single)
Black Mountain Rag (1952 single)
Imagination (1952 single)
Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar
Midnight (1952 single)
It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody) (1952 single)
Guitar Polka (1952 single)

"I'm Pickin' the blues" by Chet Atkins


"Wildwood Flower" by Chet Atkins


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