Chester and Lester
Chester & Lester | ||||
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Studio album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul | ||||
Released | 1976 | |||
Recorded | May 6–7, 1975 | |||
Genre | Country, jazz | |||
Length | 36:21 | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Producer | Chet Atkins | |||
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Chester & Lester is a collaborative album by guitarists Chet Atkins and Les Paul released by RCA Records in 1976.
The album was recorded in the mid-1970s when Atkins was in his fifties and Paul in his sixties. Atkins coaxed Paul out of his decade-long retirement for this recording. The liner notes state there is very little overdubbing and the majority of the album was live in the studio.
Chester & Lester peaked at No. 11 on Billboard's Country album chart and No. 172 on the Pop album chart. It peaked at No. 27 on the Country chart again in 1978. At the Grammy Awards of 1976, Chester & Lester won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
Reissues
- Both Chester & Lester and Guitar Monsters were released on CD in 1989 by Pair Records as Masters of the Guitar: Together with some tracks omitted.[3]
- In 1998, Chester and Lester and the duo's follow-up release Guitar Monsters were reissued intact on one CD on One Way Records.
- Chester & Lester was reissued in 2007 on RCA Nashville/Legacy with four bonus tracks.
Track listing
Side one
- "It's Been a Long Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:33
- "Medley: Moonglow/Picnic (theme from Picnic)" – 4:44
- "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 3:21
- "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:34
- "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:14
Side two
- "Avalon" (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Vincent Rose) – 6:32
- "Birth of the Blues" (Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 3:07
- "Someday Sweetheart" (Spikes, Spikes) – 3:21
- "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:31
- "Lover Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:44
Bonus tracks on Columbia Nashville CD re-release:
- "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (previously unreleased)
- "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (previously unreleased)
- "Caravan" (previously unreleased alternate take)
- "Moonglow / Picnic (Theme From 'Picnic')" (previously unreleased rehearsal take)
Personnel
- Chet Atkins – guitar
- Les Paul – guitar
- Ray Edenton – guitar
- Randy Goodrum – piano
- Larrie Londin – drums
- Henry Strzelecki – bass
- Bob Moore – bass
- Kenneth Aronson – album cover design
- Kenneth Aronson, Chip DeVilbiss – photography
References
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- Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar
- Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins
- A Session with Chet Atkins
- Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version)
- Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions
- Finger Style Guitar
- Chet Atkins at Home
- Hi-Fi in Focus
- Chet Atkins in Hollywood
- Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins
- Mister Guitar
- Teensville
- The Other Chet Atkins
- Chet Atkins' Workshop
- Christmas with Chet Atkins
- The Most Popular Guitar
- Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
- Caribbean Guitar
- Down Home
- Our Man in Nashville
- Teen Scene
- The Guitar Genius
- Travelin'
- Guitar Country
- Progressive Pickin'
- My Favorite Guitars
- More of That Guitar Country
- Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles
- From Nashville with Love
- Music from Nashville, My Home Town
- It's a Guitar World
- Chet
- Picks the Best
- Class Guitar
- Hometown Guitar
- Solid Gold 68
- Solo Flights
- Lover's Guitar
- Solid Gold 69
- Yestergroovin'
- Solid Gold 70
- Pickin' My Way
- For the Good Times
- Picks on the Hits
- Alone
- The Night Atlanta Burned
- Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies
- Teen Scene
- Me and My Guitar
- Country After All These Years
- East Tennessee Christmas
- Work It Out with Chet Atkins C.G.P.
- Stay Tuned
- Street Dreams
- Sails
- Chet Atkins, C.G.P.
- Read My Licks
- Almost Alone
- Solo Sessions
- Chet Atkins and His Guitar
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compilations
- The Best of Chet Atkins
- The Best of Chet Atkins, Vol. 2
- The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends
- Galloping Guitar: The Early Years
- Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
- Chet Picks on the Grammys
- The Essential Chet Atkins: The Columbia Years
- The Essential Chet Atkins
- Eclectic Guitar
- The Early Years 1946–1957