Superpickers

Superpickers
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released	1974
Recorded	Nashville, TN
Genre	Country
Length	31:14
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Bob Ferguson, Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Alone (1973) Superpickers (1974) The Atkins - Travis Traveling Show (1974)
Chet Atkins Collaborations chronology
World's Greatest Melodies (1972) Superpickers (1974) The Atkins - Travis Traveling Show (1974)

Superpickers is a 1974 album by guitarist Chet Atkins and top recording session players in Nashville, TN.

"Fiddlin' Around" reached No. 75 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.

Reception[]

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "Atkins joins together with an A-list of Nashville session musicians for a set of picking extravaganzas... Atkins himself is goaded into some wonderful playing as a result, and Superpickers is one of his best albums."^[1]

Reissues[]

• Superpickers was reissued on CD in 1998 along with Picks on the Hits by One Way Records.

Track listing[]

Side one[]

1. "Paramaribo" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:27
2. "Fiddlin' Around" (Johnny Gimble) – 3:06
3. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:35
4. "Beef and Biscuits" (Mat Camison) – 2:35
5. "Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) – 2:44

Side two[]

1. "Just Another Rag" (Atkins, Jerry Reed Hubbard) – 2:38
2. "Canadian Pacific" (Ray Griff) – 3:50
3. "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman) – 3:26
4. "Bells of Saint Mary's" (Doug Tringer) – 2:51
5. "Are You from Dixie ('Cause I'm from Dixie Too)" (George L. Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 3:02

Personnel[]

• Chet Atkins - guitar
• Johnny Gimble - fiddle
• Buddy Spicher - fiddle
• Buddy Harman - drums
• Charlie McCoy - harmonica
• Weldon Myrick - pedal steel guitar
• Jerry Shook - guitar
• Farrell Morris – percussion
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
• Larrie Londin - drums
• Paul Yandell - guitar, ukulele
• Henry Strzelecki -bass
• Bobby Thompson - banjo, guitar

See also[]

• The Nashville A-Team

References[]