{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Solo Flights | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins | cover = Solo_Flights_Chet_Atkins.jpg | alt = | released = 1968 | recorded = RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN | venue = | studio = | genre = Country, pop | length = | label = RCA Victor | producer = | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = Solid Gold 68 | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = Lover's Guitar | next_year = 1969 }}
'''''Solo Flights''''' is the thirty-sixth studio album by Chet Atkins. Side one of this album features Atkins' experiment with the "Octabass Guitar," where he replaced the two low strings (the E and A strings) with heavier strings in order to drop an octave and create a fuller sound with bass.
The album debuted on the US ''Billboard'' Top LPs on the 3rd of February, peaking at No. 184 during a three-week stay on the chart.<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>
This album was reissued on CD for the first time, in Japan only, on April 22, 2009.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Richard S. |last= Ginell |title= ''Solo Flights'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r105404 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}</ref> }} Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "All told, this is one of Atkins' more pleasing collections from that era."<ref name="AM" />
==Track listing== ===Side one=== # "Drive In" (Rich) 2:15 # "Three Little Words" (Burt Kalmar, Harry Ruby) 2:35 # "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) 3:25 # "Chet's Tune" (Cohen) 2:18 # "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) 2:12 # "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) 3:10
===Side two=== # "Cindy Oh Cindy" (Robert Barron, Burt Long) 2:25 # "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Ned Washington, Leigh Harline) 2:46 # "Music to Watch Girls By" (Sid Ramin, Tony Velona) 2:30 # "Choro da Saudade" (Agustín Barrios) 2:37 # "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (Milton Kellem) 2:05 # "Georgy Girl" (Jim Dale, Tom Springfield) 2:45
==Personnel== *Chet Atkins – guitar
== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable" ! Chart (1968) ! Peak<br />position |- | US ''Billboard'' Top LPs<ref name="Whitburn" /> | align="center"|184 |- |} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Chet Atkins}} {{Authority control}}
Category:1968 albums Category:Chet Atkins albums Category:RCA Victor albums