LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

This neatly packaged 4CD box set features Chet Atkins' recordings between 1946 and 1954 and represents an extensive collection of this legendary country guitarist, whose talent contributed to making country music a steady chart event in the 50s and 60s. Atkins' long lasting career also includes an interesting duet album with former Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler, who is also one of Atkins greatest fans. Track listing - CD1: CHESTER ATKINS AND THE ALL-STAR HILLBILLIES 1. Guitar Blues (Picking the Blues) 2. Brown Eyes Cryin' in the Rain CHET ATKINS AND HIS COLORADO MOUNTAIN BOYS 3. Ain'tcha Tired of Makin' Me Blue 4. I'm Gonna Get Tight 5. Canned Heat 6. Standing Room Only 7. Don't Hand Me That Line 8. Bug Dance 9. (I Know My Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way 10. The Nashville Jump 11. My Guitar Is My Sweetheart 12. I'm Pickin' the Blues 13. Gone, Gone, Gone 14. Barnyard Shuffle 15. Save Your Money 16. (I May Be Color Blind But) I Know When I'm Blue 17. I've Been Working on the Guitar 18. Dizzy Strings CHET ATKINS AND HIS GUITAR PICKERS 19. Money, Marbles and Chalk 20. Wednesday Night Waltz 21. Guitar Waltz 22. Tellin' My Troubles to My Old Guitar 23. Dance of the Goldenrod 24. Galloping on the Guitar 25. Barber Shop Rag 26. Centipede Boogie CD 2: CHET ATKINS AND HIS GUITAR PICKERS 1. Under the Hickory Nut Tree 2. I Was Bitten by the Same Bug Twice 3. One More Chance 4. The Old Buck Dance 5. Boogie Man Boogie 6. Main Street Breakdown 7. Confusin' 8. Music in My Heart 9. Indian Love Call 10. Birth of the Blues CHET ATKINS - ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH BASS 11. Mountain Melody 12. You're Always Brand New 13. My Crazy Heart CHET ATKINS - ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH BASS 14. Hybrid Corn CHET ATKINS - PLAYING ALL INSTRUMENTS 15. Jitterbug Waltz CHET ATKINS WITH VOCAL REFRAIN BY THE BEAVER VALLEY SWEETHEARTS 16.One Man Boogie [Take H] 17. Crazy Rhythm [Instrumental] 18. Crazy Rhythm [Vocal Version] CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR 19. Rustic Dance 20. Rainbow 21. In the Mood 22. Spanish Fandango CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR WITH VOCAL REFRAIN BY THE BEASLEY SINGERS 23. Midnight 24. Good-Bye Blues 25. Your Mean Little Heart 26. Sweet Bunch of Daisies CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR 27. Blue Gypsy 28. The Third Man Theme CHET ATKINS WITH VOCAL REFRAIN BY THE BEAVER VALLEY SWEETHEARTS 29. One Man Boogie [Take D] CD 3: CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR 1. St. Louis Blues 2. Nobody's Sweetheart 3. Lover Come Back to Me 4. Stephen Foster Medley 5. Hangover Blues 6. Imagination 7. Black Mountain Rag CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR WITH ROSALIE ALLEN 8.Guitar Polka 9.Dream Train CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR 10. Meet Mister Callaghan 11. Chinatown, My Chinatown 12. High Rockin' Swing 13. Pig Leaf Rag 14. Oh by Jingo! 15. Hello Ma Baby 16. The Bells of St. Mary's 17. Country Gentleman 18. Memphis Blues 19. Alice Blue Gown 20.Twelfth Street Rag 21. Peeping Tom 22. Three O'Clock in the Morning 23. Georgia Camp Meeting 24. City Slicker 25. Dill Pickle Rag 26. Rubber Doll Rag 27. Beautiful Ohio [Version 1] 28. Kentucky Derby 29. Wildwood Flower 30. Guitars on Parade 31. Simple Simon 32. Rubber Doll Rag [Alternate Take] CD 4: CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR 1. Get Up and Go 2. Pagan Love Song 3. Beautiful Ohio [Version 2] 4. Downhill Drag 5. Avalon 6. Sunrise Serenade 7. San Antonio Rose 8. Set a Spell 9. Mister Misery 10. Get Up and Go 11. South 12. Alabama Jubilee 13. Corrine, Corrina 14. Indiana (Back Home in Indiana) 15. Red Wing 16. Frankie and Johnnie 17. A Gay Ranchero 18. Ballin' the Jack 19. Honeysuckle Rose CHET ATKINS AND HANK SNOW GUITAR DUET 20. Darktown Strutters Ball 21. The Old Spinning Wheel 22. Silver Bell 23. Under the Double Eagle CHET ATKINS AND HIS GALLOPING GUITAR 24.The Birth of the Blues 25. Have You Ever Been Lonely 26. Caravan 27. Old Man River 28. Mister Sandman 29. New Spanish Two Step