Guitar Monsters
1978 studio album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul
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Studio album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul | ||||
Released | 1978 | |||
Genre | Country, jazz | |||
Length | 31:16 | |||
Label | RCA Victor APL1-2786 | |||
Producer | Bob Ferguson | |||
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Guitar Monsters is an album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul, released by RCA Records in 1978. It is their second collaboration, after their Grammy Award-winning release Chester & Lester.
At the Grammy Awards of 1978, Guitar Monsters was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance.
Reception
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Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell recalled the success of the duo's first collaboration and wrote of this album "the results are just about as marvelous."[1]
Reissues
- Guitar Monsters and Chester and Lester were released on CD in 1989 by Pair Records as Masters of the Guitar: Together with some tracks omitted.[2]
- Both albums were re-released with the two albums intact on one CD in 1998 by One Way Records.
Track listing
Side one
- "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) - 2:50
- "I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) - 3:41
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:41
- "Meditation" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 2:32
- "Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin ) - 3:01
- "I'm Your Greatest Fan" - 3:49
Side two
- "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 2:58
- "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) - 4:04
- "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Russell) - 2:41
- "Give My Love to Nell" (Traditional) - 2:53
- "Hot Toddy" (Ralph Flanagan) - 3:00
Personnel
- Chet Atkins – guitar
- Les Paul – guitar
- Joe Osborne – bass
- Buddy Harman, Larrie Londin, Randy Hauser – drums
- Randy Goodrum – piano
- Paul Yandell – rhythm guitar
References
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- Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar
- Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins
- A Session with Chet Atkins
- Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version)
- Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions
- Finger Style Guitar
- Chet Atkins at Home
- Hi-Fi in Focus
- Chet Atkins in Hollywood
- Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins
- Mister Guitar
- Teensville
- The Other Chet Atkins
- Chet Atkins' Workshop
- Christmas with Chet Atkins
- The Most Popular Guitar
- Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
- Caribbean Guitar
- Down Home
- Our Man in Nashville
- Teen Scene
- The Guitar Genius
- Travelin'
- Guitar Country
- Progressive Pickin'
- My Favorite Guitars
- More of That Guitar Country
- Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles
- From Nashville with Love
- Music from Nashville, My Home Town
- It's a Guitar World
- Chet
- Picks the Best
- Class Guitar
- Hometown Guitar
- Solid Gold 68
- Solo Flights
- Lover's Guitar
- Solid Gold 69
- Yestergroovin'
- Solid Gold 70
- Pickin' My Way
- For the Good Times
- Picks on the Hits
- Alone
- The Night Atlanta Burned
- Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies
- Teen Scene
- Me and My Guitar
- Country After All These Years
- East Tennessee Christmas
- Work It Out with Chet Atkins C.G.P.
- Stay Tuned
- Street Dreams
- Sails
- Chet Atkins, C.G.P.
- Read My Licks
- Almost Alone
- Solo Sessions
- Chet Atkins and His Guitar
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compilations
- The Best of Chet Atkins
- The Best of Chet Atkins, Vol. 2
- The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends
- Galloping Guitar: The Early Years
- Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
- Chet Picks on the Grammys
- The Essential Chet Atkins: The Columbia Years
- The Essential Chet Atkins
- Eclectic Guitar
- The Early Years 1946–1957