Down Home (Chet Atkins album)

After releasing the smooth pop and easy listening albums Chet Atkins' Workshop and The Most Popular Guitar, Chet returned to his roots with Down Home. The album peaked at No. 31 and returned Atkins to the Top 40. It includes two of Chet's signature tunes, "Windy and Warm" and "Trambone".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "The contrast from his previous secular release couldn't have been more dramatic... Down Home outpolled The Most Popular Guitar by 88 places in the Billboard LP charts, returning him to the Top 40, which seemed to indicate that when you let Atkins do what he liked, his fans probably would like it too."^[1]

Reissues

Down Home was re-released on CD by One Way Records along with The Most Popular Guitar in 1995.^[2]

Track listing

Side one

"Salty Dog Rag" (Edward Crows, John Gordy) – 2:10
"I Am a Pilgrim" (Merle Travis) – 3:03
"Trambone" (Atkins) – 2:15
"Steel Guitar Rag" (Leon McAuliffe) – 1:54
"Little Feet" – 2:27
"Blue Steel Blues" (Ted Daffan) – 2:19

Side two

"Windy and Warm" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:26
"I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow" (Atkins, Charlie Louvin) – 2:32
"Never on Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis, Billy Towne) – 3:01
"The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" (Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) – 2:15
"Give the World a Smile" (Otis Deaton, M. L. Yandell) – 2:04
"Tuxedo Junction" (Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins) – 2:07

Personnel

Chet Atkins – guitar
Boots Randolph – saxophone
Charlie McCoy – harmonica

References

1 2 Ruhlman, William. "Down Home > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
↑ AllMusic entry for reissue of Down Home and The Most Popular Guitar.

External links

Windy and Warm Video

Chet Atkins

Studio albums	Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins A Session with Chet Atkins Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version) Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions Finger Style Guitar Chet Atkins at Home Hi-Fi in Focus Chet Atkins in Hollywood Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins Mister Guitar Teensville The Other Chet Atkins Chet Atkins' Workshop Christmas with Chet Atkins The Most Popular Guitar Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns Caribbean Guitar Down Home Our Man in Nashville Teen Scene Travelin' Guitar Country Progressive Pickin' My Favorite Guitars More of That Guitar Country Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles From Nashville with Love Music from Nashville, My Home Town It's a Guitar World Chet Picks the Best Class Guitar Hometown Guitar Solid Gold 68 Solo Flights Lover's Guitar Solid Gold 69 Yestergroovin' Solid Gold 70 Pickin' My Way For the Good Times Picks on the Hits Alone The Night Atlanta Burned Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies Teen Scene Me and My Guitar Country After All These Years East Tennessee Christmas Work It out with Chet Atkins C.G.P. Stay Tuned Street Dreams Sails Chet Atkins, C.G.P. Read My Licks Almost Alone Solo Sessions Chet Atkins and His Guitar

Collaborations	Reminiscing The Pops Goes Country C. B. Atkins & C. E. Snow by Special Request Chet Atkins Picks on the Pops Me & Jerry Chet Floyd & Boots Me & Chet American Salute Superpickers The Atkins – Travis Traveling Show Chet Atkins Picks on Jerry Reed Chester & Lester Chet Floyd & Danny Guitar Monsters First Nashville Guitar Quartet Reflections Standard Brands Neck and Neck Sneakin' Around The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat Simpatico The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World

Live albums	After the Riot at Newport In Concert And Then Came Chet Atkins The Best of Chet on the Road — Live

With The Country All-Stars	String Dustin' Jazz from the Hills

With The Nashville String Band	The Nashville String Band Down Home Strung Up Identified! The Bandit World's Greatest Melodies

Selected compilations	The Best of Chet Atkins The Best of Chet Atkins, Vol. 2 The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends Galloping Guitar: The Early Years Guitar Legend: The RCA Years Chet Picks on the Grammys The Essential Chet Atkins: The Columbia Years The Essential Chet Atkins Eclectic Guitar The Early Years 1946–1957

Related articles	Discography

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