Read My Licks
1994 studio album by Chet Atkins
Read My Licks | ||||
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Studio album by Chet Atkins | ||||
Released | 1994 | |||
Recorded | Nashville, TN | |||
Genre | Country, pop | |||
Length | 42:22 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Chet Atkins, David Hungate | |||
Chet Atkins chronology | ||||
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Read My Licks is the fifty-sixth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins.
David Hungate and Atkins again co-produce with a number of guest musicians. Suzy Bogguss contributes a lead vocal on "After You've Gone". She and Atkins released a duet album the same year. Steve Wariner joins Atkins in a vocal as well as a guitar duet on "Read My Licks".
At the Grammy Awards of 1994, "Young Thing" won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
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Track listing
- "Young Thing" (Atkins) – 3:14
- "Mountains of Illinois" (Atkins, Pat Bergeson) – 4:10
- "After You've Gone" (Creamer, Layton) – 3:31
- "Every Now and Then" (Atkins, Goodrum) – 3:01
- "Somebody Loves Me Now" (R. L. Kass) – 4:07
- "Norway" (Claese Neeb) – 3:41
- "Read My Licks" (Allen, Jones) – 4:34
- "Take a Look at Her Now" (Bergeson, Kass) – 3:56
- "Around the Bend" (Atkins, Jerry Reed) – 3:45
- "Dream" (Johnny Mercer) – 4:35
- "Vincent" (Don McLean) – 3:48
Personnel
- Chet Atkins – guitar, vocals
- Suzy Bogguss – vocals
- Pat Bergeson – guitar, percussion
- David Hungate – bass
- John Jarvis – keyboards
- Randy Goodrum – keyboards
- Floyd Cramer – keyboards
- Darryl Dybka – keyboards
- Larry Knechtel – piano
- Jim Horn – saxophone
- George Benson – guitar
- Eric Johnson – guitar
- Mark Knopfler – guitar
- R. L. Kass – guitar
- Steve Wariner – guitar, vocals
- Paul Yandell – guitar
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle
- Lonnie Wilson – drums
References
External links
- Video of Atkins playing Vincent
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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