Superpickers
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| Studio album by Chet Atkins | |||||
| Released | 1974 | ||||
| Recorded | Nashville, TN | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 31:14 | ||||
| Label | RCA Victor | ||||
| Producer | Bob Ferguson, Chet Atkins | ||||
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Superpickers is an album by guitarist Chet Atkins and top recording session players in Nashville, TN.
"Fiddlin' Around" reached No. 75 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.
Contents
Reception
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| Allmusic | (no rating) [1] |
Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "Atkins joins together with an A-list of Nashville session musicians for a set of picking extravaganzas... Atkins himself is goaded into some wonderful playing as a result, and Superpickers is one of his best albums."[1]
Reissues
- Superpickers was reissued on CD in 1998 along with Picks on the Hits by One Way Records.
Track listing
Side one
- "Paramaribo" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:27
- "Fiddlin' Around" (Johnny Gimble) – 3:06
- "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:35
- "Beef and Biscuits" (Mat Camison) – 2:35
- "Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) – 2:44
Side two
- "Just Another Rag" (Atkins, Jerry Reed Hubbard) – 2:38
- "Canadian Pacific" (Ray Griff) – 3:50
- "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman) – 3:26
- "Bell's of Saint Mary's" (Doug Tringer) – 2:51
- "Are You from Dixie?" (George L. Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 3:02
Personnel
- Chet Atkins - guitar
- Johnny Gimble - fiddle
- Buddy Spicher - fiddle
- Buddy Harman - drums
- Charlie McCoy - harmonica
- Weldon Myrick - pedal steel guitar
- Jerry Shook - guitar
- Farrell Morris – percussion
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
- Larrie Londin - drums
- Paul Yandell - guitar, ukelele
- Henry Strzelecki -bass
- Bobby Thompson - banjo, guitar
