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Chet Atkins - The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show/Reflections Audio CD

A fair review of the Chet Atkins "The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show/Reflections" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Chet Atkins reviews here, or go back to the Chet Atkins tabs.

Chet Atkins Band: Chet Atkins
Title: The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show/Reflections
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Release Date: 2008-09-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Down South Blues - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 2: Mutual Admiration - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 3: Muskrat Ramble - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 4: If I Had You - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 5: Cannonball Rag - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 6: Boogie for Cecil - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 7: Is Anything Better Than This - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 8: Dance of the Golden Rod - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 9: Who's Sorry Now - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 10: Nine Pound Hammer - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 11: I'll See You in My Dreams - Chet Atkins, Merle Travis 12: Dill Pickle Rag - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 13: Me and Chet Made a Record - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 14: Flatt Did It - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 15: Medley: Tennessee Rag/Beaumont Rag [Medley] - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 16: Medley: Texas Gales/Old Joe Clark [Medley] - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 17: You're Gonna Be Sorry - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 18: Goodnight Waltz - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 19: Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 20: Medley: Black and White/Ragtime Annie [Medley] - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson 21: On My Way to Canaan's Land - Chet Atkins, Doc Watson

Best of the Best from the Best
The banter between Chet and Merle on the "Atkins Travis Traveling Show" is refreshing and informative. I have both these albums in their original formats and they are easily my favorites of the scores of Atkins/Travis/Watson albums that I own. Both discuss how they began playing like they do (did). Both Merle and Chet are at their prime - their very best - and performing the music that they clearly enjoy playing. Merle does one of his best presentations of his own "Cannonball Rag" and Chet covers it as if it were his own tune.

The "Reflections" collection with Chet and Doc Watson is a genuine treasure. The album demonstrates how harmonious the two radically different playing techniques can meld into beautiful music. With Chet's unbelievable finger-style and thumb-rhythm combination along with Doc' fantastic flat-pick playing, every tune is most pleasing to the ear. The track "Tennessee Rag/Beaumont Rag" is my favorite, along with the little fun song, "Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder When I'm gone.


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