Chet Atkins - Chet Atkins' Workshop [RCA Records LSP-2232] (1961)

Released: 1961
Country: US
Label: RCA Records
Catalog: LSP-2232
Pressing: RCA Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood
Genre: Country / Pop

Item# SR-RCLSP2232
Ratings: C=VG; LP=VG-

Note: Label variation: Chet Atkins' name in all upper-case at bottom of label (instead of mixed case).

T R A C K L I S T:
01 Lambeth Walk
02 Theme From ' A Summer Place'
03 Whispering
04 In A Little Spanish Town ('Twas On A Night Like This)
05 Sleep
06 Marie
07 Hot Mocking Bird
08 Lullaby Of Birdland
09 Tammy
10 Goofus
11 Bonita
12 Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)




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Album Review

Greg Adams [allmusic.com]

Chet Atkins, the country boy whose catholic tastes deserve some of the credit (or blame) for pushing country music toward the pop mainstream in the '60s, serves up exclusively pop and jazz material on his 1961 album Chet Atkins' Workshop. ''Whispering'' and ''Lullaby of Birdland'' are two of the jazz standards, while instrumental renditions of the Debbie Reynolds hit ''Tammy'' and Doris Day's ''Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, WIll Be)'' are pure pop. Atkins' relaxed fingerpicking works the material into a smooth consistency that sometimes belies the complexity of his technique, but the album is an engaging listen and an effortless-sounding intersection of diverse styles. Atkins was an album artist, and Chet Atkins' Workshop, though failing to produce a charting single, made the Top Ten and became his best-selling LP.