{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Mister Guitar | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins | cover = Mister_Guitar_Atkins.jpg | alt = | caption = The original LP album cover | released = October 1959 | recorded = Nashville, TN | venue = | studio = | genre = Country, pop | length = 24:43 | label = RCA Victor LSP-2103 (Stereo) | producer = Chet Atkins | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins | prev_year = 1959 | next_title = After the Riot at Newport | next_year = 1960 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative Cover | type = album | cover = mister_guitar_1.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = The LP re-issue of ''Mister Guitar'' }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = (4.5/5)<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r91697|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> }}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot-->
'''''Mister Guitar''''' is the eleventh studio album recorded by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1959. That title, as well as "Country Gentleman", became names assigned to Chet.
"Country Gentleman", co-written with Boudleaux Bryant, was a minor hit for Atkins in 1953. That original version was recorded in a garage.<ref name="CG">Atkins, Chet and Neely, Bill. (1974). "Country Gentleman". Chicago. Harry Regnery Company. {{ISBN|0-8092-9051-0}}.</ref> The liner notes are by David Halberstam, then writing for The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee.
== Reissues == * ''Mister Guitar'' was packaged with ''Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions'' and released on CD in 1998 by One Way Records. * In 2002, ''Mister Guitar'' was reissued with ''Chet Atkins' Workshop'' by Classic Compact Disc (Disc 2103).
== Track listing == === Side one === # "I Know That You Know" (Anne Caldwell, Vincent Youmans) – 1:53 # "Rainbow" (Alfred Bryan, Percy Wenrich) – 2:27 # "Hello Bluebird" (Cliff Friend) – 2:06 # "Siesta" (Atkins, James Rich) – 2:10 # "Country Style" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:02 # "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 2:06
=== Side two === # "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (John Kellette, James Kendis, James Brockman, Nat Vincent) – 1:30 # "Backwoods" (James Rich) – 2:09 # "Country Gentleman" (Atkins, Boudleaux Bryant) – 1:53 # "Slinkey" (Atkins) – 1:59 # "Jessie" (Traditional) – 1:44 # "Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – 2:27
== Personnel == * Chet Atkins – guitar
== Production notes == * Engineered by Bob Farris and Bill Porter
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Category:1959 albums Category:Chet Atkins albums Category:Albums produced by Chet Atkins Category:RCA Records albums