Pickin' My Way

Pickin' My Way

Pickin' My Way

ASIN: B000008D0K

Track Listings
 
1. Lover, Come Back to Me
2. Boxer
3. Hellacious
4. I Never Knew
5. Wabash Blues
6. Black Mountain Rag
7. Junk
8. When You Wish Upon a Star
9. Floatin' Down to Cotton Town
10. Pickin' My Way

Pickin' My Way,Chet Atkins,Mobile Fidelity,Arranger,Country,Country Boogie,Country-Pop,Instrumental Country,Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan,Producer,Traditional Country
Pickin My Way
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    		Pickin My Way
    Chet Atkins
    Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity Soun
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00000DWPV
    Release Date: 1989-10-03
    Pickin' My Way
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Chet: not just fingers
    		 Pickin' My Way
    Chet Atkins
    Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    Nashville SoundNashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000008D0K
    Release Date: 1989-08-14

    Tracks:

    1. Lover, Come Back to Me
    2. Boxer
    3. Hellacious
    4. I Never Knew
    5. Wabash Blues
    6. Black Mountain Rag
    7. Junk
    8. When You Wish Upon a Star
    9. Floatin' Down to Cotton Town
    10. Pickin' My Way

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Chet: not just fingers.......2003-04-14

    Any guitar player knows how hard it is to do what Chet Atkins did with his fingers. What got less recognition was his ability as a composer and arranger. This album has the usual assortment of Chet stuff, ballads, country tunes, pop tunes, in a style that sounds like elevator music to the uneducated but makes a musician say "How did he do that?". The title tune sounds like the kind of acoustic finger-picker that any '60's folkie would have worked on - until it modulates up a key and starts throwing in the kind of variations that few would conceive and hardly anyone but Chet could play.
    The real gem of the album is Chet's version of "When You Wish Upon A Star". Like a Bach 4-part invention, it sounds lovely at first hearing, and it gets even better with repeated listenings as you start to realize what he's doing. After a conventional (but beautiful) statement of the song come the variations, including an inventive and technical counterpoint between bass and melody lines. The mind-blowing climax comes with an extended coda of stunning arpeggios which sound as if played on a harp. Chet somehow got 6 strings to sound like 60, with cascading runs of unimaginable difficulty - and beauty. This is not a triumph of studio overdubbing. This is solo Chet at his unbelievable best, both in conception and in execution.
    Somebody besides me likes this album. A tv special on Leo Kottke showed him pawing through the used record bin, pulling this album out and holding it up to the camera with a "This is the one!" look.

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