Plays Back Home Hymns

Performer: Chet Atkins
Distributor: BMG Special Products

Notes: Personnel: Chet Atkins (vocals, guitar). A budget-priced collection clocking in at less than a half hour, Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns is simply too brief to stand as a definitive collection of the guitarist's spiritual recordings; his instrumental work is impeccable, of course, but performances of favorites like "Amazing Grace," "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" and "The Old Rugged Cross" pass by too quickly to properly whet the listener's appetite. ~ Jason Ankeny

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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