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This is a favorite version of the song. I have the This Is Chet Atkins Album. A great album too bad the album isn't available on Compact Disc.
bakedsugarcookies 1 month ago
I first heard Atkins's performance of Billie Joe on the radio in 1968 and have been waiting more than 40 years to hear it again. It's just as I remembered it. Thanks!
JFNJ2007 6 months ago
@JFNJ2007 You're welcome!
daffydoug 6 months ago
Awesome Doug.
maurieer 8 months ago
I like this. He could play anything, couldn't he? What a talent & great gift to all of us.
pattykake19 10 months ago
@pattykake19 More than any other guitar player in HISTORY, Chet could indeed play anything! He was the most versatile guitarist to ever live, and that is what set him apart and made him great. For instance, he could play the classical guitarists' pieces, but how many of them could play Chet's tunes? Someone once said that if Chet had decided to become a farmer, we would all be taking six foot high green beans for granted! Chet was THE greatest. Only ONE Mr guitar!
daffydoug 10 months ago
his fingers sing all the words ..and they are lovely words
Lachlan53 1 year ago
If this was based on a true event I'm dying to know if there was really a guy named Billie Joe and if he jumped for the reasons in the movie...
Cheetahsmonk 2 years ago
@Cheetahsmonk According to the song's writer, Bobbie Gentry, the song was fictitious, and so was the movie plot, dreamed up by screenwriters years later. I grew up in the South in the '50s and '60s and am familiar with an old saying which states that when young lovers throw flowers into a stream their love will last forever. So I've always assumed this is what Brother Taylor saw them throwing off the bridge.
ridgerunner94 1 year ago
Funky
hufferz 2 years ago
Love this version. Did Beck sample the bass line?
mexantexan 2 years ago
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mexantexan 2 years ago
Love this rendition of Ode To Billy Joe. I have the album from when I was a kid. He Rocks
themattster1991 3 years ago 2
I have the album titled This Is Chet Atkins. Is this the album you are refering to?
limegreenmuumuu 3 years ago
Yes it is. I listen to this album when I do chores cleaning my trailer
themattster1991 3 years ago 2
I love Chet, but the defining guitar version of this classic belongs to rock &roll hall of famer, King Curtis who took his instrumental version to #28 pop,#6 r&b. It's amazing this song has been covered over 200 times
danieldrownr 3 years ago