Hi-Fi in Focus Plus

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Performer: Chet Atkins
Distributor: City Hall

Notes: This reissue of the famed Nashville picker and producer's 1957 outing, HI FI IN FOCUS, has a handful of bonus tracks but mainly features Atkins's guitar chops at their peak. For about half the album, Atkins plays solo (and there's no better way to hear the best guitar player ever to come out of Nashville), wildly veering from genre to genre, and covering everything from Bossa Nova to Bach. A must for Atkins fans or any country-guitar enthusiasts.

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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