{{Refimprove|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Guitar Monsters | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins and Les Paul | cover = Guitar_Monsters.jpg | alt = | released = 1978 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country, jazz | length = 31:16 | label = RCA Victor APL1-2786 | producer = Bob Ferguson | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = Chet Floyd & Danny | prev_year = 1977 | next_title = First Nashville Guitar Quartet | next_year = 1979 }}
'''''Guitar Monsters''''' is an album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul, released by RCA Records in 1978. It is their second collaboration, after their Grammy Award-winning release ''Chester & Lester''.
At the Grammy Awards of 1978, ''Guitar Monsters'' was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Richard S. |last= Ginell |title= ''Guitar Monsters'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= mw0001880758 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=July 2, 2011}}</ref> }} Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell recalled the success of the duo's first collaboration and wrote of this album "the results are just about as marvelous."<ref name="AM" />
==Reissues== * ''Guitar Monsters'' and ''Chester and Lester'' were released on CD in 1989 by Pair Records as ''Masters of the Guitar: Together'' with some tracks omitted.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r123840|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review of Masters of the Guitar.]</ref> * Both albums were re-released with the two albums intact on one CD in 1998 by One Way Records.
==Track listing== ===Side one=== # "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) - 2:50 # "I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) - 3:41 # "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:41 # "Meditation" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 2:32 # "Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin ) - 3:01 # "I'm Your Greatest Fan" - 3:49
===Side two=== # "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 2:58 # "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) - 4:04 # "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Russell) - 2:41 # "Give My Love to Nell" (Traditional) - 2:53 # "Hot Toddy" (Ralph Flanagan) - 3:00
==Personnel== *Chet Atkins – guitar *Les Paul – guitar *Joe Osborne – bass *Buddy Harman, Larrie Londin, Randy Hauser – drums *Randy Goodrum – piano *Paul Yandell – rhythm guitar
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Category:1978 collaborative albums Category:Chet Atkins albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Ferguson (musician) Category:RCA Records albums Category:Les Paul albums