{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = A Session with Chet Atkins | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins | cover = A_Session_With_Chet_Atkins.jpg | alt = | released = December 1954 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country, pop | length = 33:09 | label = RCA Victor LPM-1090 (Mono) | producer = | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins | prev_year = 1953 | next_title = Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins | next_year = 1955 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative Cover | type = album | cover = Session_With_Chet_Atkins_2.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = The 1961 re-issue LP cover. }} }}
'''''A Session with Chet Atkins''''' is the third studio album recorded by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It features Atkins introducing standard pop and jazz melded with country sensibilities. The liner notes state this is the first use of a celeste on a country record. The musicians include Homer and Jethro in the rhythm section. Atkins uses his new EchoSonic amplifier for the first time on his recordings.<ref name="mamg">Atkins, Chet and Cochran, Russ. (2003). "Me and My Guitars". Milwaukee. Hal Leonard Corporation. {{ISBN|0-634-05565-8}}.</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Richard S. |last= Ginell |title= ''A Session with Chet Atkins'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= mw0000883184 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=July 2, 2011}}</ref> }} Allmusic music critic Richard S. Ginell praised the album and wrote "With a roomful of crack Nashville session men, Chet Atkins' first 12-inch album is one joyful, yet sophisticated and controlled compilation of mostly standard pop and jazz tunes all decked out country-style."<ref name="AM" />
==Track listing== ===Side one=== # "South" (Ray Charles, Thamon Hayes, Bennie Moten) – 2:45 # "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 3:20 # "Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 2:35 # "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" (George Brown, Peter DeRose) – 2:40 # "Red Wing" (Kerry Mills, Thurland Chattaway) – 2:22 # "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:32
===Side two=== # "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 3:25 # "Corrine, Corrina" (Armenter Chatmon, Mitchell Parish, J. Mayo Williams) – 2:20 # "The Birth of the Blues" (Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 3:20 # "A Gay Ranchero" (Juan José Espinosa, Francia Luban, Abe Tuvim) – 2:35 # "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 2:35 # "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:40
A 2-EP gatefold with the red cover was released in 1955. The tracks were: # "South" # "Alabama Jubilee" # "The Birth of the Blues" # "A Gay Ranchero" # "Have You Ever Been Lonely" # "Frankie and Johnny"
==Personnel== *Chet Atkins – guitar *Dale Potter – fiddle *Bud Isaacs – pedal steel guitar *Ray Edenton – rhythm guitar *John Gordy – piano, celesta *Jerry Byrd – lap steel guitar *Henry "Homer" Haynes – guitar *Kenneth "Jethro" Burns – mandolin *Jim Carney – drums *Bob Moore – bass
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