Almost Alone

Almost Alone
Studio album by
Chet Atkins
ReleasedMay 1996
RecordedNashville, TN
GenreCountry, pop
LabelColumbia
ProducerChet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Simpatico
(1994) 		Almost Alone
(1996) 		The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World
(1997)
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Allmusic [1]

Almost Alone is the fifty-seventh studio album by Chet Atkins. He was 71 at the time of the album's release. It is almost all solo guitar instrumentals. "Jam Man" won the 1997 Grammy award for Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance.

Atkins replaced the E and A normal guitar bass strings on a Gibson Country Gentleman guitar with thicker strings on "I Still Write Your Name in the Snow" to lower them an octave, giving a fuller bass accompaniment effect. There are no overdubs except for "Jam Man" and "You Do Something to Me". "Jam Man" uses a musical effect of the same name.[2]

As part of the promotion for the release, Atkins signed 125 Gibson Epiphone guitars that were given away in contests around the country.[3]

  1. ^ Allmusic
  2. ^ Atkins, Chet. Chet Atkins Almost Alone. (1998) Hal Leonard Publishing. ISBN 0-7935-6875-7.
  3. ^ Stambler, I and Landon, G. Country Music: The Encyclopedia. (1997) McMillan.