Chet Atkins - "Foggy Mountain Breakdown & Alabama Jubilee"

[henchman423]

God didnt do shit ... Chet had asthma and sit in his room as a kid and worked on this!!! If he had sit around reading his bible instead of playing and said "God i wish you had given me the talent like so and so" he would have never been that good!! If you stop playing super technically hard stuff you can't just pick it back up you have to train yourself any musician knows that!! Some are better than others but might as well say Odin gave him his chops considering the jesus story rips him off.

[yzfr6003]

@henchman423 lol!

[ralph4eva]

I want the lyrics for this

[johnhrey52]

amazing

[johnhrey52]

amazing

[videoeyer]

YEE HAW!

[ralph4eva]

I wanna be a picker too

[voodoochili12]

I burst out laughing when I heard that chorusy Strat. Yikes.

[jojoUK120]

@voodoochili12 to be fair i think his amp had an air gap or something, but then again perhaps albert lee got stuck in traffick that night :)

[Peep215]

x) You can hear part of "Jerry's Breakdown" at 0:56.

[glorybra]

I've watched Chet play guitar for over 40 years and he shows more 'emotion' in this video than I've ever seen from him before.

[musicalrich1]

Too bad about Paul - another great guitarist gone...Jerry Reed, mainly known for his singing, was also a mighty fine guitar picker,lol...

[JohnLindseyJr]

Paul passed away this past Monday. They don't make 'em like Chet, Jerry and Paul any more.

[Jimmy7779]

God gave Chet a remarkable gift, and Chet gave God countless hours of practice.

[biggerbigd]

@Jimmy7779 Ah, you said it all there! Playing like that takes many many hours sitting all alone, determined to fly.

[steved0689]

Oh how I wish God gave me that kind of talent.

[AnnaAnnaYes]

God is smiling,all of the great guitarists are in Heaven!!

[Rattenhoofd]

@AnnaAnnaYes Enough good ones still alove bruv :)

[AnnaAnnaYes]

@Rattenhoofd I hear ya!!

[ValreeShoe]

Wonderful!

[cheyeguy]

This song is where Buckethead got his song Hog Bitch Stomp from if I'm not mistaken I think its actually a tribute to Chet! :D

[mosrite60]

Chet and Paul, so far the best duet ever by far. Chet is just too cool!

[salmagnum]

2:26 BIG sigh of relief, lol. "I'm hangin with Chet, man! I ain't blewin' it!"

[pandawipes]

was that sonny landreth with fender?

[kfwahine]

Notice Chet's standard guitar with an electric pickup- My goodness that has to be around l960 . He could play anything better than anyone but was a man with true humility !

[ta666ak666]

I thought country music was some boring useless genre that only truck drivers listen to. This proved me wrong.

[problem49]

@ta666ak666 It can be two things.

[Juicefani11]

@ta666ak666 When i tried Johnny Cash the first time, my dad told me it's "Truck-driver music"

[axiomatic272]

@Juicefani11 My dad IS a truck driver, he doesn't mind Johnny Cash or Chet Atkins, and nor do I

[Juicefani11]

@axiomatic272 I didn't say it IS truck-driver music, for God's sake! I SAID my DAD THINKS it IS truck-driver music! I never said that it is, didn't i?

[axiomatic272]

@Juicefani11 I'm sorry if my comment was taken as annoying, I intended it as just a little light humour.

Kind regards.

[NiraTocco]

Paul who?

[PooPooOnMyNewShoe]

@therealdanashby Hahah right

[MakeItJungle]

He knew he hit a nasty one at 2:24

[MrLeadbelly]

backing butt cowboy singers

[BigJplkoplko]

I love this music but this performance has NO energy. Makes it boring.

[sethy1]

@BigJplkoplko blame it on the faggot on the strat dude.

[Waymore15]

@sethy1 Come on now, no need to hate on Paul Yandell, he was one of Chet's equals, if needed he could match him note for note.

[CanadianFolkBlues]

shit i never knew harrison ford played guitar!

[tendercarephca]

"Gayest backup singers" hmmm Times were different back then. People didn't talk about sex let alone being "Gay" and I WILL AGREE WITH YOU THEY DO LOOK "GAY" THEY ARE ALL ENJOYING THEIR MUSICAL TALENTS AND HAVING A "GAY" OLD TIME........

[breenVA]

Nashville with a chorused upped strat is weird.

[nicknummers]

@breenVA yeah i agree, that threw me off guard.

[Payola65]

Paul Yandel on the Second Guitar ~Learned and Toured with Chet For Years~Steve Paolo

[AUSROTTENY2K]

The guy at 0:50 looks like David Koresh.

[gearoiddom]

@AUSROTTENY2K Ha ha. Well, if Nero can fiddle while Rome burns, why can't David pick while Waco burns?

[tnorgren013]

ahahahahah the bass player at 43 seconds looks like steve carrell

[saxesisme]

Gibson SOLID body electric acoustic. It was made in Kalamazoo MI. I was lucky enough to have seen that guitar in a studio before it was sent to him!!! Very cool.

[slim6744]

I have to admit that "Freight Train" by Chet Atkins is one of my favorites..numero uno in my book. Anolther one is "Yellow Bird"...by the same Chet Atkins. Listening to this kind of music is sooooooo ....relaxing......Men get old and die.....Music like this NEVER gets old and NEVER dies. Trust me.

[orefrima]

Foggy Mountain is no Foggy Mountain without a banjo! :(

Good job though :P

[captainclayman]

good lord i dont even like country but this is EPIC

FOOT

TAPPING

CANT

STOP

[haselnussist]

very nice songs

[JoeyJeepers]

Captain Spaulding hosted a show?

[cshargeit]

the REAL difference is those are nylon strings. they have no sustain . less than a banjo string.

[stephenyatesacoustic]

I am constantly curious as to why Chet went over to nylon strings. I much prefer the sound of steel for his style and the various "Nashville" bending techniques only work on steel. His playing is still great on this guitar but the sound, at least to my ears, doesn't quite suit the style. Still great playing though.

[mubudubum]

@stephenyatesacoustic Those were the days of experimentation, you may find a lot of phenomenal videos of Chet back in the day, but the choice of guitar or guitar sound is awful, but if someone didn't try it first we would still be figuring it out today.

[riverdale999]

I'm going to burn my guitar now.

[crayZtaco7]

would anyone else here bang the two girls singing.

besides that, damn good tune

[KutWrite]

@crayZtaco7 - Just the one on the far left - and I'm 62.

[HondaSuperSport1100]

my dad still brags about going to his shows back in the day, excellent music

[zmueck]

This must be from 1976, im guessing because of the bicentennial.  At first glance, I thought that was Eric Clapton playin the backup strat, until I got a second look.

[pusiwa]

wow... i love the guitar

[shizzle5150]

"Godfather of the guitar" Damn right he is.....

[waddleduckie1]

This is another great performance of Atkins'. He's completely mesmerizing...

[Zoso666]

How can he play it in guitar? I mean, give me the tab :)

[GORDON330]

Only Chet could take banjo and fiddle tunes and make you think they were written for the guitar. This is priceless audio/video. Thank you SO....MUCH!

[jread021]

@GORDON330 Stu Hamm did a pretty impressive job of it too. (on bass of course)

[Medyshel]

Chet isn't dead. Gods can't die

[jamesreptile1109908]

@Medyshel les paul, john lennon, gorge harison, are dead. thay do die!!!!

[ArneFufkin]

Even the top Nashville superpros clapped for Chet too. RIP

[LorenzoMoore1000]

Awesome guitar work coming from one greatest guitar players of all time.

[cadillacman028]

that strat has a wicked sound to it

[amosnews]

Chet: June 20, 1924 June 30, 2001. RIP

[fifthworld]

Uhhh in case anybody cares, that "MC' in uncle sam get-up is the greatest old-timey fiddler phenom, Bruce Molsky himself. Check him out! He's also great on old-time banjer.......

[MightyAlz]

No it isn't.

[southernsportsman424]

@fifthworld , ruh-tard, thats Ralph Emory, he is reknowned DJ and obviously a TV host............

[RoyProductions101]

ZOMG I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT!!!

[StvMcQueen1]

@RoyProductions101 Chet's sister grew up right next to my uncle's farm in Blanchester, Ohio. She told a tale about Chet when he was just a boy. His dad would constantly catch him out back of the barn, picking on an old guitar. "Son, you ain't never gonna amount to a hill of beans," he'd say. "All you want to do is sit out here and play that dang guitar." So, if you want to be able to "do that," get out there behind the barn, I guess. LOL

[banjovi1953]

That was nice!!! Go Chet go.

[GoldenbanjoDJ]

banjo version is better imo

[sathomaso]

damn i would love to get the tabs for this great tune!

[czzham]

that's the only vid we have of Yandell soloing... Ouch! hope we get that again!!!

[HoochieCoochieMan13]

worst back up band ever. haha. not one of chets best performances (his guitar is even out of tune!)

[MultiBaldEagle]

Gibson hollow body electric/acoustic, single cut away. Very similar to the Fender Stratacoustic or Telecoustic available today.

The REAL difference is the man who's doing the picking!

[jvsjingles]

That last thing you said is spot on friend

[usncpg45]

@MultiBaldEagle Not even remotely close to the Strat / Telecoustic at all. That Gibson is a REAL guitar. Not some made in mexico/japan/korea/china (insert any other country where Fender's cheap crap is made) garbage can.

[bigdjindustriez]

@MultiBaldEagle Actually this is the Gibson Chet Atkins CEC (a custom signature model), Nylon string. It's basically just a slim-line classical guitar with electronics (hex pickup). It is NOTHING like the "stratacoustic", those are poorly made Korean garbage (not to mention steel stringed). You can get this particular guitar now for about $1,900 USD, used.. and the "stratacoustic" new for $249.00 USD.

[AmnMarlowe]

@MultiBaldEagle its actually a solid body acoustic/electric. i used to own a Chet Atkins signature model just like this one. And if you notice the sound hole, its not really a hole, just a little cup put into a cut out section in the body

[bebeard17]

@MultiBaldEagle that one's nylon string tho



[Rikk303]

@MultiBaldEagle that shallow body and sub bridge transducer is what Grodin is all about these days, less the sound hole. The future look to guitars was what that guitar from ages ago was...

[daggergblue]

@crazycrazyguggenheim: Yuo would break your fingers off if you even tried to play like that "old".

[elsoultero]

Anyone got any idea what model of guitar that is? Cheers

[benjibux]

gibson chet atkins model. single cutaway nylon string semi electric

[MontanaFiddler]

hmm, I always thought it was the pecker.

[JAGU54]

I just love it!

There are many excellent guitarpickers, but still, there's only one Mr Guitar!

Thanks for posting!

John.

[Grifiki]

Flatts and Scruggs. Akins in your Rugs.

Must be warm....

[Sundevilhp29]

The first guy you see looks like Fred Penner

[owsleyforkmusic]

i wonder if he can play the banjo??

[laslos3]

I bet he could have figured it out.

[hickmusic]

Even the greatest guitar player of all time wants to be like the most copied musician on the planet, Earl Scruggs.

[Factnotfictionpeople]

That looks like the late Winnie Winston on PSG.

[JonEricMusic]

Chet's pickin' is STELLAR on these tunes!

Thanks so much for sharing-

Banjoistically yours,

Jon Eric

[daffydoug]

I loved this. Chet was pulling off some incredible licks in both tunes!

[budd686]

That really was not very good. FMB played on an electric is somewhat of an abomanation anyway. Oh yea, Tony Rice rules.

[kungdrew]

how many freaking guitar players on on that stage? there are guys in the way back who have no clue they aint in the mix.

chet sure hated to sing didn't he?

the strat guy looks really displeased with himself in the last solo, like he couldn't got out of it fast enough.

too many people on stage, the groove is falling apart most of the way, they should have went with a skeleton crew and let chet play his groove, the music ends up suffering for it.

still in all, chet is the all time greatest.

[PasionGuitarra]

Wow, are you ok? please breath!

[kungdrew]

What are you talking about?

[fridrikur]

I agree. It seems too crowded. Chet's way to stardom was his ability to play those sixstrings like an orchestra. On that overpopulated stage his music drowns. But he stills plays like only Chet could.

So did Jerry Reed. Sometimes he omitted playing the lead and let some other guitarplayer play his part. I don't get it. Doc watson had too many musicians on stage with him too on The Three pickers.too. That is why I like studio recordings the most.

[rawcer]

Interesting and thought-provoking comment, from a guy who's loved all three for thirty-five years or more.

[PatrickSHutchinson]

This is great the way the two styles of picking work from Chet and Paul,some banjo would have sounded great in these pieces.

I think the strat sounded fine.

[Shrinkynuts]

That strat sounds horrible in conjunction with this music. It sounds like it belongs in a Police song. Probably one of the worse Police songs at that.

[RondoGuitarDude]

I like the sound of the strat, but it sounds like his G string is flat. it sounded real bad at 0:48-0:49.

[Shrinkynuts]

Yeah I guess I'm just talking about the first strat solo. There is some sort of reverb or something that sounds too modern. I think that the second strat solo is more fitting, but still a bit out of place. I guess that this isn't inherently a bad thing. It did take me by surprise though.

[BloozTube]

He is using some chorus on the first solo, I agree with you it does not fit in with the song....

[kungdrew]

sorry you don;t care for andy summers, or the police for that matter, i agree the strat doesn;t fit, i was wondering where the banjo was, did they just forget?

the police are brilliant musicians besides the stuff they did as the police. maybe you dont; like that genre,

[Shrinkynuts]

No I like the Police. I just thought that this particular choice of guitar effects didn't fit the vibe of the song. It just seemed a bit out of place. I like this take though. After a re-listen or two it grows on you. The Police are pretty good in my opinion.

[johnnyjet33030]

All thru u-tube Typicalnegative stupid comments from young punks that don't know enough to know they don't know-- only know what has been in from of their nose during short lives-lol

[PjEdinUK]

Love the dodgy dancing from the backing singers!!!!

[ladyblue614]

WOW I LOVE IT!!

[countryfan5]

Paul Yandell solo!!

[webbwoman61]

Love me some Chet Atkins

[DanOblacksmith]

The real deal... 'nuff said.

[tylenoljohnson]

that was awesome guitar work but the gayest backup singers i ever could have imagined.

[Manitor]

I concur.

[vclubamp]

yep.

[skynatyc]

yes.. I thought they were pretty lame too.

[jessupar]

+1 to that..

[partack1]

xD *nodnod*

[jjwall4]

haha, i think it was in the delivery. the singing was actually pretty good.

[skrimpshidy]

@tylenoljohnson all of the shows Chet was on were cheesed to the hilt. It's like there's a subconscience in people to take something great and turn it to crap.

[TheNStormofJustice]

@tylenoljohnson They seem... happy enough.

[mattisheretonight]

@tylenoljohnson you're a fucking idiot

[treetoptop]

@tylenoljohnson hahahahah, well said!

[skipdow3]

Great Job ! I think Flat & Scruggs would even applaud Chet.

[DaveMass59]

Thanks for posting this; I'd never seen this one either. I miss Chet.

[meathead369]

awesome...

[chet1952]

That so cool I never saw that one!!!

[merletravis]

good medley

thanx very much :)