The Night Atlanta Burned (Remastered) The Atkins String Company

• 1 Sonora 03:17
• 2 Mostly Mozart 03:47
• 3 Bill Cheatham 02:39
• 4 San Antonio Stroll 02:43
• 5 To Ann 02:02
• 6 The Night Atlanta Burned 02:14
• 7 Carnavalito 03:11
• 8 Women Of Ireland 02:26
• 9 Scotland 02:30
• 10 The Odd Folks Of Okracoke 01:59
• Total Runtime 26:48

Info zu The Night Atlanta Burned (Remastered)

46th studio album by Chet Atkins, credited to the small string ensamble The Atkins String Co. The group performed music inspired by a Georgia music conservatory which didn't survive the Civil War. The instrumental pieces are mostly quiet and melodic, combining classical, traditional folk, country, bluegrass and Southern traditions.

"A dignified John D. Loudermilk composition inspired by General Sherman's scorched-earth treatment of Atlanta during the Civil War, "The Night Atlanta Burned" in turn inspired this beautiful, all too brief LP credited to The Atkins String Co. -- a quartet of top-notch country string players led by Chester Atkins himself. Here, Atkins was trying to achieve a fusion of classical music techniques and ideas with those of country music and its bluegrass branch, so what you have is a classy chamber country ensemble drawing tunes and influences from around the map. You can hear Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, and Latin classical influences mixed together or side by side on the homey "San Antonio Stroll" or Bill Monroe's hoe-down "Scotland." Atkins's fluid Tennessee-smooth acoustic guitar and occasional mandolin has the most striking personality, with Lisa Silver's violin and viola, Johnny Gimble's mandolin, and Paul Yandell's rhythm guitar providing gentle companionship. With all the hype about the Yo-Yo Ma/Mark O'Connor/Edgar Meyer Appalachia Waltz projects of the 1990s, it's enlightening to discover the seeds of that classical/country/bluegrass fusion right here, some 20 years ahead of the game." (Richard S. Ginell, AMG)

Chet Atkins, guitar
Johnny Gimble, mandolin
Paul Yandell, guitar
Lisa Silver, violin, viola

Digitally remastered

Chet Atkins
one of country music’s greatest instrumentalists, producers, and promoters of the Nashville Sound, was born the son of a fiddler in Luttrell, Union County in 1924. He took up guitar at an early age but first performed on Knoxville’s WNOX as a fiddler, a sideman for Johnnie Wright and Jack Anglin, and Kitty Wells. Atkins moved on to Cincinnati’s WLW, Nashville’s WSM, and Springfield, Missouri’s KWTO, backing artists such as the Carter Sisters and Red Foley during the 1940s.

In 1950 Steve Sholes of RCA offered the guitarist his first contract. Atkins returned to Nashville and immediately became a prominent studio artist. His musical talents and friendship with Sholes led to his appointment as Sholes’s Nashville assistant in 1952. When RCA built its own studio in 1957, Atkins managed it. Before long, Sholes turned over RCA’s country operations to his protégé, and by 1968 Atkins was a vice-president at RCA.

Atkins supervised other producers, produced many of his own recordings, and signed such artists as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, and Charley Pride. As an instrumentalist and producer, Atkins broadened the country music sound to compete with the growing popularity of rock music. By shaping the Nashville Sound, he strengthened the city’s position as a recording center and helped establish its fame as Music City.

Known by many as “Mr. Guitar,” Atkins legitimized the role of the country guitar soloist throughout his career with dozens of albums showcasing his unique “galloping guitar” picking style. The Gretsch and Gibson guitar companies even brought out guitar models built to Atkins’s specifications.

As of 1997 Atkins had received fourteen Grammy awards and in 1973 became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, at that time the youngest individual to be so honored. He retired from RCA in 1981 but continued to perform and record until his death on June 29, 2001.

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