{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Yestergroovin' | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins | cover = yestergroovin.jpg | alt = | released = 1970 | recorded = RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, Tennessee | venue = | studio = | genre = Country, pop, jazz | length = | label = RCA Victor | producer = Bob Ferguson | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = Down Home | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = Pickin' My Way | next_year = 1970 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref name="AMG"/> }}
'''''Yestergroovin<nowiki>'</nowiki>''''' is the thirty-ninth studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1970. ''Yestergroovin<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' was nominated for the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. It did not win, but Atkins's collaboration with Jerry Reed ''Me and Jerry'' did. He would be nominated twice in the same category again in 1973. == Chart performance == The album debuted on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs on the 25th of March, peaking at No. 139 during a five-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>
==Reception== Allmusic stated that it is "a throwback to some of his earlier, less-cluttered, more musical albums. It's a relaxed, friendly, assured package... Lovely record; one of his best from this period.".<ref name="AMG">[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r105354|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic (Yestergroovin' Review)]</ref>
==Track listing== ===Side one=== # "Steeplechase Lane" (Jerry Reed Hubbard) # "Tennessee Pride" # "Rocky Top" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) # "Gotta Travel On" # "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 2:38 # "Country Champagne" – 2:30
===Side two=== # "Liberty" – 2:42 # "Inka Dinka Doo" – 2:43 (Jimmy Durante, Ben Ryan)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/search/track/Inka%20Dinka%20Doo/order:default-asc/ |title=Track Search: Inka Dinka Doo |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2012-03-16 |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708144621/http://www.allmusic.com/search/track/Inka+Dinka+Doo/order:default-asc |url-status=dead }}</ref> # "Bring Me Sunshine" (Sylvia Dee, Arthur Kent) – 2:40 # "Yestergroovin'" # "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 3:00
==Personnel== *Chet Atkins – guitar *Producer – Bob Ferguson *Al Pachucki – engineer *Ray Butts – engineer *Tom Pick – engineer *Joe Clark – cover photo == Charts ==
{| class="wikitable" ! Chart (1970) ! Peak<br />position |- | US ''Billboard'' Top LPs<ref name="Whitburn" /> | align="center"|139 |- |} ==References== {{Reflist}}
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