Chet Atkins' Workshop

 

Bonita

Chet Akins' Workshop

Produced by Chet Akins

Recorded in Nashville

Recording Engineer: Bill Porter

RCA Victor LSP-2232

1961

From the back cover: The workshop itself resembles a small scale Cape Canaveral. In it is approximately $8,000 worth of electronic and electrical equipment, much of it built by Atkins himself: a small maze of mixing panels, a three-channel stereo tape recorder, a one-channel recorder, a jack panel, a voltmeter, an audio generator, a distortion meter.

This is the lonely man's room and and Atkins when he's working is a lonely man. "I can take my time here," he said. "Can't take my time at the studio. We're making money there and when you're making money you can't really take the time." Here he can retire for days on end to be handed an occasional sandwich through the door by his wife Leona, but here to stay, with his guitar and his sound.

"The sound," I said, "how about the sound?"

"It isn't bad," he said.  – David Halberstam - Mr. Halberstam of The Nashville Tennessean is a frequent contributor to The Reporter Magazine

Lambeth Walk

Theme from "A Summer Place"

Whispering 

In A Little Spanish Ton ('Twas On A Night Like This)

Sleep

Marie

Hot Mocking Bird

Lullaby Of Birdland

Tammy

Goofus

Bonita

Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Será, Será)