Galloping Guitar: The Early Years

Galloping Guitar: The Early Years is an album by Chet Atkins, released in 1993. An exhilarating showcase of fingerstyle guitar mastery blending country, jazz, and blues into a lively instrumental journey. Here's what makes it worth your time and what to listen to next.

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Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 Guitar Blues Standout 2:50
• 2 Brown Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain Standout 2:49
• 3 Ain’tcha Tired of Makin’ Me Blue 2:45
• 4 I’m Gonna Get Tight 2:55
• 5 Canned Heat 2:35
• 6 Standing Room Only 2:54
• 7 Don’t Hand Me That Line 2:37
• 8 Big Dance 2:57
• 9 (I Know My Baby Love Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way 2:27
• 10 The Nashville Jump Standout 2:32
• 11 My Guitar Is My Sweetheart 2:40
• 12 I’m Pickin’ the Blues 2:50
• 13 Gone, Gone, Gone 2:40
• 14 Barnyard Shuffle 2:52
• 15 Save Your Money 2:34
• 16 (I May Be Color Blind but) I Know When I’m Blue 2:33
• 17 I’ve Been Working on the Guitar 2:30
• 18 Dizzy Strings 2:45
• 19 Money, Marbles and Chalk 2:54
• 20 Wednesday Night Waltz 2:32
• 21 Guitar Waltz 3:04
• 22 Telling My Troubles to My Old Guitar 2:46
• 23 Dance of the Golden Rod 2:41
• 24 Galloping Guitar 2:29
• 25 Barber Shop Rag 2:50
• 26 Centipede Boogie 2:38

Disc 2

• 1 Under the Hickory Nut Tree 2:58
• 2 I Was Bitten by the Same Bug Twice 2:31
• 3 One More Chance 2:49
• 4 The Old Buck Dance 2:27
• 5 Boogie Man Boogie 2:49
• 6 Main Street Breakdown 2:18
• 7 Confusin’ 2:14
• 8 Music in My Heart 2:17
• 9 Indian Love Call 2:39
• 10 Birth of the Blues 2:33
• 11 Mountain Melody 2:10
• 12 You’re Always Brand New 2:39
• 13 My Crazy Heart 2:41
• 14 Hybrid Corn 2:15
• 15 Jitterbug Waltz 2:37
• 16 One Man Boogie (take H) 2:40
• 17 Crazy Rhythm (instrumental) 2:25
• 18 Crazy Rhythm (vocal) 2:23
• 19 Rustic Dance 2:06
• 20 Rainbow 2:38
• 21 In the Mood 2:29
• 22 Spanish Fandango 2:40
• 23 Midnight 2:53
• 24 Good-Bye Blues 2:29
• 25 Your Mean Little Heart 2:33
• 26 Sweet Bunch of Daisies 2:05
• 27 Blue Gypsy 2:19
• 28 The Third Man Theme 2:26
• 29 One Man Boogie (take D) 2:38

Disc 3

• 1 St. Louis Blues 2:17
• 2 Nobody’s Sweetheart 2:16
• 3 Lover, Come Back to Me 2:26
• 4 Stephen Foster Medley 2:26
• 5 Hangover Blues 2:36
• 6 Imagination 2:13
• 7 Black Mountain Rag 2:18
• 8 Guitar Polka 2:06
• 9 Dream Train 2:13
• 10 Meet Mr. Callaghan 2:42
• 11 Chinatown, My Chinatown 2:01
• 12 High Rockin’ Swing 2:20
• 13 Pig Leaf Rag 2:31
• 14 Oh By Jingo! 2:14
• 15 Hello My Baby 2:09
• 16 The Bells of St. Mary’s 2:15
• 17 Country Gentleman 2:15
• 18 Memphis Blues 2:11
• 19 Alice Blue Gown 2:06
• 20 12th Street Rag 2:22
• 21 Peeping Tom 2:22
• 22 Three O’Clock in the Morning 2:19
• 23 Georgia Camp Meeting 2:14
• 24 City Slicker 2:23
• 25 Dill Pickle Rag 2:25
• 26 Rubber Doll Rag 2:15
• 27 Beautiful Ohio 2:17
• 28 Kentucky Derby 2:03
• 29 Wildwood Flower 2:13
• 30 Guitars on Parade 2:22
• 31 Simple Simon 2:11
• 32 Rubber Doll Rag (alt) 2:24

Disc 4

• 1 Get Up and Go 2:54
• 2 Pagan Love Song 2:07
• 3 Beautiful Ohio (version 2) 2:09
• 4 Downhill Drag 2:23
• 5 Avalon 2:20
• 6 Sunrize Serenade 2:45
• 7 San Antonio Rose 2:29
• 8 Set a Spell 2:27
• 9 Mister Misery 2:29
• 10 Get Up and Go 2:53
• 11 South 2:49
• 12 Alabama Jubilee 2:36
• 13 Corrine Corrina 2:20
• 14 Back Home in Indiana 3:22
• 15 Red Wing 2:27
• 16 Frankie and Johnnie 2:35
• 17 A Gay Ranchero 2:34
• 18 Ballin’ the Jack 2:58
• 19 Honeysuckle Rose 2:42
• 20 Darktown Strutters Ball 2:01
• 21 The Old Spinning Wheel 2:27
• 22 Silver Bells 2:17
• 23 Under the Double Eagle 2:35
• 24 The Birth of the Blues 3:23
• 25 Have You Ever Been Lonely 2:43
• 26 Caravan 3:28
• 27 Old Man River 2:35
• 28 Mister Sandman 2:17
• 29 New Spanish Two Step 2:09

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