{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Guitar Country | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins | cover = Guitar_Country.jpg | alt = | released = 1964 | recorded = RCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN | venue = | studio = | genre = Country | length = 27:49 | label = RCA Victor LPM 2783 (mono), LSP 2783 (Stereo) | producer = Bob Ferguson | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = Reminiscing | prev_year = 1964 | next_title = Progressive Pickin' | next_year = 1964 }}
'''''Guitar Country''''' is the twenty-fourth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins. The album was a nominee for the 1964 Best Country & Western Album Grammy award, however it was beat out by Roger Miller's "Dang Me/ Chug-A-Lug".<ref>{{Cite web |title=7th Annual GRAMMY Awards {{!}} GRAMMY.com |url=https://grammy.com/awards/7th-annual-grammy-awards |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=grammy.com}}</ref> The album stayed on the Country albums charts for 33 weeks, peaking at #1 in May 1964.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chet Atkins {{!}} Biography, Music & News |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/chet-atkins/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref> Prior to 1964, there was no separate genre chart for Country LPs, thus Chet's previous charting albums were on the Pop charts. Numerous future Atkins releases "crossed over" from the Country and Pop charts. The album did well on the pop charts too, reaching No. 112 in the US.<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Top LPs, 1955–1972 | year = 1973 | publisher = Record Research | page = 13 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/12/mode/2up | access-date = 2025-07-10}}</ref>
{{Music ratings | rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |title= ''Guitar Country'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r91709 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=July 2, 2011}}</ref> |noprose=yes }}
==Reissues== * ''Guitar Country'' and ''More of That Guitar Country'' were reissued together on CD in 2001 on the Collectibles label.
==Track listing== ===Side one=== # "Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten) – 2:03 # "A Little Bit of Blues" (Jerry Reed) – 2:58 # "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) – 2:26 # "Dobro" (Atkins, Cy Coben) – 1:59 # "Kentucky" (Karl Davis) – 2:53 # "Vaya con Dios" (Larry Russell, Inez James, Buddy Pepper) – 2:23
===Side two=== # "Winter Walkin'" (Jerry Reed) – 2:01 # "Guitar Country" (Johnny Mercer, Willard Robison) – 2:39 # "Sugarfoot Rag" (Hank Garland, Vaughn Horton) – 2:01 # "Gone" (Smokey Rogers) – 2:01 # "Copper Kettle" (Albert F. Beddoe) – 2:10 # "Yes Ma'am" (Jerry Reed) – 2:15
==Personnel== *Chet Atkins – Guitar *Ray Edenton – Rhythm guitar *Henry Strzelecki – Bass *Bill Pursell – Piano (Yes Ma'am) *Floyd Cramer – Electric piano *Jim Carney – Drums
==Production notes== *Bob Ferguson – Producer *Bill Porter – Recording engineer == Charts ==
{| class="wikitable" ! Chart (1964) ! Peak<br />position |- | US ''Billboard'' Top LPs<ref name="Whitburn" /> | align="center"|112 |- |} ==References== {{Reflist}}
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