hbs47 wrote: 
I find the foot taps a bit annoying, maybe cheaper speakers would help.

Everybody in my church loves this music...
 

 Bat wrote: 
Percussive effects(spoons/ muted tambourine) and  foot taps etc

I swear that I hear some scratches and pops in the background.  Vinyl LP?

 timmus wrote:  I saw Chet Atkins in Fargo before he died, so maybe I have a different connection, but that's what so many of us love about RP.  Keep it coming—up, down, and around!  Incredibly delightful concert, by the way!

 jberko wrote: 
extra fingers?

you and me both friend.
 Saw Dave play in Oakland at Yoshi's a couple of years ago, and he blew me away.  I've never had the chance to see Chet play live, but TV, videos, duets with other like Mark Knopfler, plus the fact that I pretend to play a 12 string so I think I have a clue, all tell me that man was a giant among those who actually play.  He and Leo Kottke are my guitar heros, each for his own reason. Collectively  they do things with ONE instrument that pretty much defy logic.

AlienRelic wrote: 

brilliant!
 

Oh Chet, if you would have only stuck with the guitar and let Nashville alone.

 timmus wrote: 
I want to ride on THAT elevator.

Wow...  How?

It is when stuff like this is sounding so smooth and easy that it is in fact not, but incredibly hard to play it sounding so effortless. It takes a master of the guitar...

Jawdropping track!

Well, well, well!  Chet's chillin' and it's mighty fine.

What a great version.  Didn't even think of this (duh).  Trying to learn it on guitar and now I have a new study version.  Thanks RP!

Children, children, eat your broccoli, finish your homework, then grow up and appreciate Chet Atkins. I'm 57 years young and never really appreciated Chet's stuff until later in life. You youngins has got all the rest of your days to dig it. Dig it?

 dwlangham wrote: 
It takes a musical lobotomy.

Well,...that was kinda awesome!

 dedawson wrote: 

Well, this was recorded around 1973, not really "at this point", and it's an interpretation of a jazz standard - I guess that can be considered "cliche" by some.  Is there such a thing as an "unhackneyed cliche"?

Had I heard this anywhere else I would have dismissed as elevator-ish and gone back to my usual distracted thoughts.. 

When RP plays this kind of stuff, following my perfunctory WTF .. I try to give the music its due.

In many cases I learn something.

Listening to Atkins and remembering this is one fellow on an acoustic guitar (not a 10 piece orchestra) kind of overwhelms.

 

It takes a special kind of musical moron to classify Chet Atkins (or Dave Brubeck) as "elevator music".

Chet Atkins doing Dave Brubeck is not elevator music. timmus wrote: 

I agree, nice tune, but this is getting a bit too far into the elevator music genre.  Every time Radio Paradise slows things down too much (especially with extreme elevator music like Primavera), Radio Paradise goes off and I end up dialing in Radio Caroline or Sky FM.

Another album that I now need.
Thanks Bill; thats my wallet you hear screaming.

Such a pretttttty cover!

nice take...

Chet can't do wrong.
My evening was sucky as I found some unknown sticky and difficult to remove substance had filled my fridge-thankfully Radio Paradise has been kicking some serious energizing tunes this evening. Mucho gracious!

 df1489 wrote: 
I can do without Tori Amos, but it fits with this groove.  All my errands are done, and I'm settling into a nice space for the night. The music is perfect for it... (Uh, except for this really horrific Bonobo intro...)

 scrubbrush wrote: 
Ahh I believe it is texture like sand, with that track being about Heroin and all...........Anyways nice guitar work for sure

I saw George Benson do a respectable cover of this on youtube