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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 2012-02-07
  2. Publisher: Real Gone Jazz
  3. Artist: Chet Atkins
  4. Format: Box set, Import
  5. Sales Rank in Music: #29729

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EU four CD collection from the guitar legend containing eight albums: Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar, Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins, Session With Chet Atkins, In Three Dimensions, The Finger Style Guitar, Hi Fi In Focus, At Home and In Hollywood.

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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Three and a Half Hours of Chet Atkins at a Bargain Price!, March 5, 2012
Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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I'm still a bit confused as to the background on this reissue label: Real Gone Music. The UK website (Music Melon) is under re-construction. The Realgonemusic website doesn't seem to have any connection to this label. (At least it did not list any of the "8 Classic Albums" releases at that site.) All I CAN tell you is that this is amazing music at an amazing price.

There are 2 complete albums on each of the 4 CDs housed in a plastic jewel case. There are no liner notes, no booklet, just three-and-a-half hours of Chet Atkins and his guitar. (There is only one vocal.) this collection is comprised of Atkins' first eight studio albums--90 songs in all.

Disc One (40:08)
"Chet Atkins Gallopin' Guitar" (1952)
1. Third Man Theme
2. St. Louis Blues
3. Lover Come Back to Me
4. Nobody's Sweetheart
5. Stephen Foster Medley
6. Hangover Blues
7. Imagination
8. Black Mountain Rag
9. Galloping on Guitar
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Pass This By, April 8, 2012
North Port Guy - See all my reviews
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This is an absolutely wonderful collection of eight of Chet's earlier albums. The fidelity and clarity is outstanding. The selection of songs is great. And, Chet is (as always) at his best. An absolutely "don't miss" collections. And, if you like Chet and Les Paul, get their "Lester and Chester" album; I think the only one they made together.


4.0 out of 5 stars Nearly Perfect, April 21, 2012
Val W. Muylle (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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Discs 2, 3 & 4 get an A+ rating (one slight exception below on "Chet Atkins in Hollywood"). All tracks are crystal clear, I am sure taken from the Bear Family box.

Disc 1 is slightly disappointing in that the track listing on the two 10" records represented "ain't quite right". A couple of previously unreleased recordings from the time period show up on there, and one track from the second 10" is omitted ("12th Street Rag"). But at least Real Gone Music did a better job than they did on Duane Eddy box set where Disc 1 is kind of a mish-mash.

Not all of Chet's albums are in there inclusively. A couple were omitted, then there is a slight leap to "...in Hollywood" which as it should be is the only album in stereo. The "Hollywood" LP is not Chet's original but rather the redo of his tracks over the orchestra that he did years later because he didn't really like the original. It would have been a nice touch to have the original in this box set. No liner notes...Read more

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