Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns

Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
Studio album by
Chet Atkins
Released1962
RecordedNashville, TN
GenreCountry, gospel
Length28:29
LabelRCA Victor LSP-2601
ProducerAnita Kerr
Chet Atkins chronology
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Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns is the seventeenth studio album of instrumental gospel hymns by guitarist Chet Atkins.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Writing for Allmusic, critic Jason Ankeny wrote that the album is "simply too brief to stand as a definitive collection of the guitarist's spiritual recordings; his instrumental work is impeccable of course, but performances of favorites like "Amazing Grace," "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" and "The Old Rugged Cross" pass by too quickly to properly whet the listener's appetite."[1]

Reissues

  • Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns was re-released by BMG in 1998.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" (Thomas A. Dorsey) – 2:43
  2. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 2:36
  3. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Traditional) – 2"07
  4. "In the Garden" (C. Austin Miles) – 2:31
  5. "When They Ring the Golden Bells" (Traditional) – 2:30
  6. "Just As I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:43

Side two

  1. "Further Along" (Traditional) – 3:03
  2. "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" (Traditional) – 2:05
  3. "The Old Rugged Cross" (George Bennard) – 2:25
  4. "Lonesome Valley" (Carter) – 2:02
  5. "God Be With You" (Traditional) – 2:33
  6. "Were You There" (Traditional) – 2:11

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Ankeny, Jason. "Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 2, 2011.