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Essential Chet Atkins (Bril) ReviewThis is my favorite Chet Atkins album. I never really heard him until just a couple of years ago when I picked up a CD at a local library when I was feeling a bit glum and wanted to find something perhaps a bit surprising. I was teaching a class of college freshmen and was disappointed with how devoid of any sense of recent (or any other!) cultural history they all were--even the "A" students. (It was a design/drawing class so that struck me as a bad sign!)
I'm 52 years old and had only heard of him in the context of Ray Stevens' "Gitarzan" when I was in Junior High school! ("He's playin' Chet's guitar course, C.O.D./He makes A, and B, and he's workin' on C/and me and the chimpanzee agree/that one day soon he'll be a celebrity!") I thought maybe hearing it would carry me back to a time before my own and help me figure out how to interest my students in artists from before their own generation (musical or otherwise).
Well, that RCA Years album knocked my socks off. It saved my sanity for the rest of the year. It gave me clues on how to try to relate better to my students and try to get them to relate better to me. A lot of the songs are horribly corny to me--like something you would have heard your Grandma watching on "Lawrence Welk." But the way he plays them, even the corniest ones are amazing and can grow on you for awhile.
What I love most are the true traditional old hillbilly songs, at least that's what I think they are. "Black Mountain Rag" and others that show off Atkins' amazing gifts. Then, I love the jazzier entries. He mixes these up with ones that were a little too of-the-moment pop stuff, not as great but again I can stand them when HE plays them.
The spirit with which he interprets and delivers just never fails to leave me awestruck, entertained, full of the sheer joy he shares. If I could know that I was ever able to do 1/100th as much to entertain people with my cartoons and caricatures as he entertains me with his playing, I would die SO-O-O happy.
I have listened to all of these so many times I can't believe I'm not sick of them yet (well, except the corniest ones that I associate with certain childhood memories). I find myself playing these when on the exercise bike, and what would otherwise be a drudgery (I hate indoor exercise, especially sitting on an uncomfortable seat in one spot!) has become a pleasure.
Some here have complained about the vocals on some of these. I say they are used sparingly enough and on few enough of the pieces that they really provide just the right addition to the set. Most are really quite fine, perfect for Atkins' works. But of course it is the purer guitar pieces that soar. I am so glad I finally discovered him, and thanks to Ray Stevens and his silly song, of all things!
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