Me and My Guitar (Chet Atkins album)

Me and My Guitar
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released	1977
Recorded	RCA Studio A (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	30:41
Label	RCA Victor APL1-2405
Chet Atkins chronology
The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends (1976) Me and My Guitar (1977) Chet Floyd & Danny (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide	[2]

Me and My Guitar is the forty-eighth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It was nominated for the Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance Grammy in 1978. Atkins joined Floyd Cramer and Danny Davis that same year to produce Chet Floyd & Danny which was also nominated.

Lenny Breau appears on "Long, Long Ago" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To".

Reissues

• Me and My Guitar was reissued by One Way Records (35122) combined with First Nashville Guitar Quartet.^[3]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Cascade" (Gene Slone) – 2:23
2. "West Memphis Serenade" (Bobby Braddock)– 2:35
3. "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Bayly) – 2:53
4. "All Thumbs" (Mark Casstevens) – 2:20
5. "Vincent (Don McLean) – 3:12
6. "Me and My Guitar" (James Taylor) – 2:40

Side two

1. "Struttin'" (Jerry Reed) – 2:31
2. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 3:10
3. "David's Dance" (Odell Martin) – 3:07
4. "A Song for Anna" (Andre Popp) – 2:42
5. "My Little Waltz" (Atkins, John Knowles) – 2:25

Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar, resonator guitar, vocals
• Lenny Breau – guitar, bass
• John Baker – percussion
• Paul Yandell – guitar
• Mark Casstevens – guitar
• Larrie Londin – drums
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
• Randy Goodrum – clavinet, synthesizer, Utility keyboard
• Bob Moore – bass
• Henry Styzelecki – bass
• Ray Stevens – piano
• Bobby Wood – piano, organ
• Tommy Cogbill – bass
• Hayward Bishop – drums
• John Christopher – guitar
• Billy Sanford – guitar
• John Baker – drums
• Floyd Cramer – piano
• Dave Kirby – guitar
• Joe Osborn – bass
• Jimmy Isbell – drums

Production notes

• Engineered by Bill Vandervort, Bill Harris, Chuck Seitz, Al Pachucki
• Mastered by Randy King

References

1. AllMusic review
2. The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 13.
3. AllMusic entry for reissue of Me and My Guitar and First Nashville Guitar Quartet.