Chester and Lester

Chester & Lester
Studio album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul
Released 1976
Recorded May 6-7, 1975
Genre Country, jazz
Length 36:21
Label RCA Victor
Producer Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies
(1976)
Chester & Lester
(1976)
The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends
(1976)
Chet Atkins Collaborations chronology
The Atkins - Travis Traveling Show
(1974)
Chester & Lester
(1976)
Chet Floyd & Danny
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone(?)[2]
The Music Box[3]

Chester & Lester is a collaborative album by guitarists Chet Atkins and Les Paul released in 1976.

It was recorded in the mid-1970s when Atkins was in his fifties and Paul in his sixties. Atkins coaxed Paul out of his decade-long retirement for this recording. The liner notes state there is very little overdubbing and the majority of the album was live in the studio.

Chester & Lester peaked at No. 11 on Billboard's Country album chart and No. 172 on the Pop album chart. It peaked at No. 27 on the Country chart again in 1978. At the Grammy Awards of 1976, Chester & Lester won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:33
  2. "Medley: Moonglow/Picnic" – 4:44
  3. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 3:21
  4. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:34
  5. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:14

Side two

  1. "Avalon" (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Vincent Rose) – 6:32
  2. "The Birth of the Blues" (Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 3:07
  3. "Someday, Sweetheart" (Spikes, Spikes) – 3:21
  4. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:31
  5. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:44

Bonus tracks on Columbia Nashville CD re-release:

  1. "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (previously unreleased)
  2. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (previously unreleased)
  3. "Caravan" (previously unreleased alternate take)
  4. "Moonglow / Picnic (Theme From 'Picnic')" (previously unreleased rehearsal take)

Personnel

References

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