Chet Atkins ‎– Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins 1953

Chet Atkins ‎– Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins
RCA Victor ‎– LPM-3163
1953

A1 Oh By Jingo
A2 Indian Love Call
A3 Memphis Blues
A4 12th Street Rag

B1 Main Street Breakdown
B2 Hello Ma Baby
B3 Alice Blue Gown
B4 Blue Gypsy

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[timgant]

Chet was a craftsman, each note is a piece of the puzzle. Simple, elegant, never rushed.

[kevinbourasa]

Started listening to his music as a young child back in the 60s, never lost my love for his splendid masterful guitar playing! A true musical genius who never had a formal music lesson!

[tomkozic]

Classic Chet. All these years later, in a league of his own. Nothing even close

[woodygoodpicker]

one of my favorite guitarists along with Merle Travis, Jerry Reed 🎸

[carl]

I ‘am 83 i always love his music I really in joy and his braces on his guitar 🎸 😊

[markbrown]

Chad Atkins has been a guitar player for so long. He was even playing guitar the year I was born. That was 1953. I’m 71 years old. This man is truly my guitar hero and I thank him for inspiring me to play 50 years ago thank you Chad Atkins. I love and miss you.❤️🎸🎼🎵🎶🎸👎

[MarkBlackburnWPG]

60 YEARS ON -- still takes my breath away!
I turned 72 today. When I was 12 my older sister obtained a black vinyl album of "Chet Atkins in Hollywood." I fell in love with Chet Atkins' sound. Then the content -- and the techniques that I would later learn he invented -- every single one of them, every trademark phrase -- impossible to improve upon -- was straight from Chet's mind and heart to his fingers. Which is why the greatest living finger-style guitarists (England's Martin Taylor, Australia's Tommy Emmanuel and America's Doyle Dykes -- the lone guitarist asked to play at Chet's funeral memorial service at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium) -- all of them copy the trademark techniques of Chet. For that reason: they simply cannot be improved-upon.


Just as an aside, I helped organize a recent visit to Winnipeg ("World's coldest major city") and, not for the first time, without prompting from the audience of enraptured guitarists, I got to hear Doyle play (perfectly) the toughest licks of this song, OH, BY JINGO!


Yes I was 12 when I picked up my first Chet Atkins' album -- this one, STRINGIN' ALONG. I was hooked for life at the first track: "Oh, By Jingo!" (oh by gee, you're the girl for me). The rolling 'hammer-offs' that result in the lightning fast, circular patters of sound, at the end of the first stanza! And all the subsequent variations, not repeating himself. I told Chet how much I loved OH BY JINGO the summer of '71 when he played my home-town of Ottawa Canada -- our glorified state fair; outdoors at our football stadium. Got to chat with him alone, as a radio interviewer, in his trailer beside the stage for half an hour. He smiled at my loving this one, and demonstrated how it's done!


Just had to say thanks, ttBoxcar for sharing this! It showed up on YouTube's marvelous 'shuffle play' as if to say, "You like Chet -- you'll like this!" 'deed I do! -- Mark B of the frozen North

[wwsuggs]

Best clean air music. Ever. Everynote loved into place.
Thrilling trills and blended speed harmony chords.
Florishes glorius.
At my 71 years my family experiences were very music driven by dixieland jazz and big band hit parades. So this incredible music is full of my familes listening list.
All selections represent
THEE best guitar master ever recorded. This a complete what that llttle
wooden box with 6 strings can do to emotions of the heart and mind. RIP Chet
You were simply the best.

[kristineb.mcanelly]

Go to instrumental energy when busy in the kitchen dicing and slicing, kneading dough, washing dishes.

[larrydering]

Chet is the Master guitarist and of course my hero. Never tire of his magic hands on those strings. So creative and cool licks, all his own. I'm so grateful his music lives on.

[jscordoba]

Despite the funny expression, it's always cool to see old photos of Chet with his D'Angelico. Before the Gretsch days.

[chesterful]

One of his best albums he was the greatest guitarist ever my hero Chet

[jorgenholmstrom]

I got this disc after my farther past away and he got as a gift from his sister. I love these old recordings.

[stjepkoboban]

Every time i hear it, genius, genius!

[BHAKTIBROPHY]

The original LP my dad had was Chet playing solo acoustic.
Anyway, I love this: brings back so memories of my childhood, and the last 47 years playing, and studying. I didn't understand how Merle, Chet, and Jerry were playing 3 parts at once when I was a kid. I learned when I was older but those three still blow my mind. Merle and Chet's LP is priceless.
Thank you for posting this; I wanted to share it with my mom.

[VidarLund-kq]

He's playing his D'Angelico Excel, serial No 1839, on this 1953 recording, the year before he went to Gretsch and got his signature orange G6120 Chet Atkins model with its Dynasonic pickups.

[propfella]

Not only a great Chet Album, but also a great recording. Hard to believe it came of a Vinyl disk. Or did it? Sounds more like a master. My Dad, Bill Kent played jazz guitar but could often be heard to slip into Chet mode. He also handled Wout Steenhuis mode pretty well and loved multitracking a' la Les Paul. Once called Australia's top guitarist by Melody Maker, sadly Dad passed away some years ago, but I still have his guitar to remember him by.

[JoseFerreira-diop]

Sou amante de boas musicas, 🎉 vários gêneros, ouço o álbum de Chet fico encantado, um som incrível, atrás de aparente simplicidade, seu estilo, seus arpejos e solos são fascinantes, também somente ele poderia ser o mestre de Mark Knoplefer, suas influências estão vivas para sempre.❤

[profstring]

Main Street Breakdown features the incredible rhythm guitar and mandolin of Homer and Jethro.

[andrewganley]

The one time 'guitar' and 'genuis' go together