NECK AND NECK
ATKINS, CHET AND MARK KNOPFLER
CD
Barcode: 5099746743529
£5.99
Personnel Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler guitar Paul Franklin steel guitar, pedabro, dobro Mark O'Connor mandolin, fiddle Floyd Cramer piano Guy Fletcher keyboards, bass, drums Edgar Meyer, Steve Wariner bass Larrie Londin drums Vince Gill background vocalsBRWithout Chet Atkins, country music may never have crossed over into the pop charts in the '50s and '60s Atkins' style grew out of his admiration for Merle Travis, and expanded Travis' signature syncopated thumb-and-fingers roll into new territory Chet Atkins' role as record producer in the '60s and '70s made the Nashville sound heard and loved throughout the world BROn NECK AND NECK, Mr Guitar teams up with Dire Straits' guitarist Mark Knopfler Together, the two guitar greats perform a wide variety of music encompassing country, pop, and even European jazz influences Atkins and Knopfler perform the Boots Randolph tune, Yakety Sax that Atkins, decades earlier, turned into a country hit after renaming it Yakety Axe The two guitarists also perform the Django Reinhardt ballad, Tears, employing a delicate and introspective touch Perhaps the best song here though is the endearing There'll Be Some Changes Made, which incorporates a virtuoso guitar battlen
