Chet Atkins With The Carter Sisters And Mother Maybelle 1949

Performer: Chet Atkins
Distributor: City Hall

Notes: Personnel: Chet Atkins (vocals, guitar); Chet Atkins; Mother Maybelle, Mother Maybelle Carter (vocals, guitar, banjo); Helen Carter, June Carter Cash, Anita Carter (vocals). Audio Remasterer: Charlie Crump. Recording information: Nashville, TN (1949). A meeting of true country music royalty, this collection presents guitar legend Chet Atkins performing in 1949 with, not only Carter Family matriarch Maybelle Carter, but her three lovely daughters--Anita, Helen, and June. (The latter would, of course, go on to marry Johnny Cash). Hearing such early recordings by the fleet-fingered Atkins alone makes this disc a recovered gem, but the Carters serve to make every tune sweeter, particularly when unfurling their high-lonesome harmonies, as on "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and "In the Pines."

Among fingerstyle country guitar players, perhaps only Merle Travis can rival Chet Atkins, whose distinctive sound defined an entire generation of Nashville country. Atkins has played an equally important role as a record producer. As RCA's chief Nashville producer in the '50s and '60s, Atkins oversaw sessions for Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Jim Reeves, Don Gibson, and countless others. He was one of the chief architects of the polished country style that came to be known as the "Nashville sound," but his own productions were more tasteful and appealing than those for which the genre is frequently lambasted. Atkins remained active into the '90s, but succumbed to cancer in 2001.

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