Chet did have a substantial reputation for Loving any music, as Long as it was, as long as iy WAS GOOD! This was excellent! I gotta hand it to him!! :-)
AT LAST SOME INTELLIGENT COMMENTS NOT CRITIZISM(SORRY CANT SPELL WELL)GOOD MUSIC IS GOOD MUSIC GREAT MUSICIANS ARE GREAT,.SOME DAYS YOU LIKE ONES WORK SOME DAYS YOU LIKE ANOTHERS WORK. SORRY FOR NOT BE AS ARTICULATE AS YOU ALL MAYBE BUT THE MESSAGE IS IN THE MUSIC
2 things. 1) This is awesome. I love this version and while I don't really speak Russian, the actual/original song is so powerful. 2) Did Chet Atkins receive flak for covering this? I'm assuming, given the years his career spent, this was recorded during the Cold War.
Guys....really....comparing Django and Chet? Two very different players and both masters in their own field(s). Dissing any of the two is just plain foolish. To honour one doesn't call for putting down the other. Wise up, it's music, not sports.
For those of you who enjoy Mr. Atkins, you might also enjoy the early solo works of the late Clarence White. There's an album called 33 Acoustic Songs. He was very young when he made it, and it's just him playing old country standards and traditionals, and it sounds like 2 or 3 people playing. He would later go on to play Bluegrass with the Kentucky Colonels, before joining The Birds. He also invented the B-String bender, an interesting device that never really caught on.
Speed is a ridiculous criteria, only Kids without creative abilities would ever think speed is the ultimate (whatever). Check out the difference between Joe Venuti and Stephane Graphelli, or Claude Black and Stuff Smith. It is all in the creative remaking of new sounds with melodies once reduced to a score. Example, Gypsy Dance 5 played classically can get my blood boiling as easily as when it is remade using Jazz improvisation.
@swingingfred I have everything Chet ever recorded, and I know full well that Chet was capable of speed when he wanted to. In fact I could site several recordings where his speed was blinding. He didn't flaunt it. He used it when he felt the tune called for it.
@Twangmusicman I love chet atkins but He's the best of the style he plays. Paco De Lucia tho in my opinion is the greatest Flamenco guitarist. So he is the greatest guitarist ever for the songs he plays while Paco De Lucia is the greatest for Flamenco Music
@nesci1234, Props to Chet and the other greats however I don't think it fair to compare them to Paco. Paco is from another universe. After listening to guitar players for the past 50 years I find Paco to be the most exciting and beautiful player I've ever heard. Ever!!
@kencc4791 Paco De Lucia is something else but I think Paco Pena is great to. Chet was a very versatile player that had many styles. Chet aside being the great one in his time praised some of the newer crop of guitarists eg. Scotty Anderson, Brent Mason, George Benson. Chet was a sleeper he could pull off amazing skills out of nowhere. Comparing loses music sense. Its like saying my dad is bigger than your dad. Myself I love Flamenco but to a point then I need to hear another style of music.
see guys you have guitar players then you have guitar pickers then there is chet atkins! mr. guitar you are missed. p.s metal metalkirby777 you are so right!!!
Chet did have a substantial reputation for Loving any music, as Long as it was, as long as iy WAS GOOD! This was excellent! I gotta hand it to him!! :-)
MrCarlHaynes 1 month ago
sweet performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
totobish2009 1 month ago
Je vous remercie de votre réponse à mon père de mourir - Dieu nous aide tous Nissim Dahan Israël - Merci beaucoup
1154NISIMDA 1 month ago
i don't like country music, but i'd rather listen to old country vs new any day. why did he cover a russian song anyway?
secutorclaudius 1 month ago
@secutorclaudius BECAUSE IT'S A CLASSIC!
hangemhigh63 1 month ago
@secutorclaudius why not ?
Ninforadio 4 weeks ago
@Ninforadio because not many americans know about eastern european music. or anything, actually. surprised me.
secutorclaudius 4 weeks ago
Master Guitarist!
sensartia 1 month ago
Thank you very much !
whenmyguitar 3 months ago
So beautiful a masterpiece in the hands of chet
fridrikur 3 months ago
AT LAST SOME INTELLIGENT COMMENTS NOT CRITIZISM(SORRY CANT SPELL WELL)GOOD MUSIC IS GOOD MUSIC GREAT MUSICIANS ARE GREAT,.SOME DAYS YOU LIKE ONES WORK SOME DAYS YOU LIKE ANOTHERS WORK. SORRY FOR NOT BE AS ARTICULATE AS YOU ALL MAYBE BUT THE MESSAGE IS IN THE MUSIC
hobonotabum 4 months ago
2 things. 1) This is awesome. I love this version and while I don't really speak Russian, the actual/original song is so powerful. 2) Did Chet Atkins receive flak for covering this? I'm assuming, given the years his career spent, this was recorded during the Cold War.
no1cp 7 months ago
Guys....really....comparing Django and Chet? Two very different players and both masters in their own field(s). Dissing any of the two is just plain foolish. To honour one doesn't call for putting down the other. Wise up, it's music, not sports.
Ojoe2010 8 months ago 9
AWESOME!!!
Chet was so far ahead of others in this time period.
maurieer 9 months ago
Best part at 1:53
McGuywer 1 year ago
For those of you who enjoy Mr. Atkins, you might also enjoy the early solo works of the late Clarence White. There's an album called 33 Acoustic Songs. He was very young when he made it, and it's just him playing old country standards and traditionals, and it sounds like 2 or 3 people playing. He would later go on to play Bluegrass with the Kentucky Colonels, before joining The Birds. He also invented the B-String bender, an interesting device that never really caught on.
Monukkha 1 year ago
Speed is a ridiculous criteria, only Kids without creative abilities would ever think speed is the ultimate (whatever). Check out the difference between Joe Venuti and Stephane Graphelli, or Claude Black and Stuff Smith. It is all in the creative remaking of new sounds with melodies once reduced to a score. Example, Gypsy Dance 5 played classically can get my blood boiling as easily as when it is remade using Jazz improvisation.
TexRpss 1 year ago
@TexRpss amen ...
bennyblanko3 1 year ago
très cool ce Chet !
Aleadefacto 1 year ago
Damn.. That rocks!
jamybrainy 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing. This is country music at its finest.
Now days all you get is a bunch of generic sappy shit.
Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins and so on, will live on forever.
DrPoon 1 year ago
If one could combine The Chord melody soloing of Chet plus Django's Gypsy picking, then that would be a most awesome rendition.
EinSofVirtuoso 1 year ago
Great playing, considering he plays a tenth of the speed Django could...with just 2 fingers!!!!!
swingingfred 1 year ago
@swingingfred
Supreme GrandMastery?
jamybrainy 1 year ago
@swingingfred I have everything Chet ever recorded, and I know full well that Chet was capable of speed when he wanted to. In fact I could site several recordings where his speed was blinding. He didn't flaunt it. He used it when he felt the tune called for it.
daffydoug 1 year ago 17
@daffydoug
that is absolutely truee.
mazmonsters 3 months ago
@swingingfred django is a tiny stone in chets shoe
3439ra 9 months ago
Oh my God...WONDERFUL INDEED!
kaijinu 1 year ago
Very beautifull music
ulash123456789 1 year ago
RIP Chet Atkins, a sad but meaningful song. So many sad people should listen to this for comfort.
AMEwrestling 2 years ago
my favorite
sandokan030303 2 years ago
Just listening to this, jawdroppingbreathtaking work.
pang5 2 years ago
歴史に色褪せる事無く残る名演です！！
hesodaso 2 years ago
i Love this so much its crazey
wogball 2 years ago 2
Chet is the best guitarist ever.
Twangmusicman 2 years ago 12
@Twangmusicman I love chet atkins but He's the best of the style he plays. Paco De Lucia tho in my opinion is the greatest Flamenco guitarist. So he is the greatest guitarist ever for the songs he plays while Paco De Lucia is the greatest for Flamenco Music
nesci1234 1 year ago
@nesci1234, Props to Chet and the other greats however I don't think it fair to compare them to Paco. Paco is from another universe. After listening to guitar players for the past 50 years I find Paco to be the most exciting and beautiful player I've ever heard. Ever!!
kencc4791 1 year ago
@kencc4791 Paco De Lucia is something else but I think Paco Pena is great to. Chet was a very versatile player that had many styles. Chet aside being the great one in his time praised some of the newer crop of guitarists eg. Scotty Anderson, Brent Mason, George Benson. Chet was a sleeper he could pull off amazing skills out of nowhere. Comparing loses music sense. Its like saying my dad is bigger than your dad. Myself I love Flamenco but to a point then I need to hear another style of music.
GameLevelEditor 1 year ago
simply AMAZING!!!
second2nonemailru 2 years ago 4
ouch!
hartnell114 2 years ago
Ouch?
daffydoug 2 years ago
when they are dancing they all crash into eachother,there is also an audiable thud,looks like someone stepped on a foot or two
hartnell114 2 years ago
@daffydoug DERRRRRRRRF?
PaladinswordSaurfang 2 weeks ago
@PaladinswordSaurfang Huh? Derrrrrrrrf??
daffydoug 2 weeks ago
I really like the live version (at the Opry?) - At that point He had been playing this awhile. It's a little different, as well as smoother, cleaner.
Buddawg1960 3 years ago 2
That tone is to die for!
daffydoug 3 years ago 6
see guys you have guitar players then you have guitar pickers then there is chet atkins! mr. guitar you are missed. p.s metal metalkirby777 you are so right!!!
danjan223 3 years ago 3
There is, indeed, a reason why every time the words "Chet Atkins" are mentioned in words or print, the words "The Great" precede them.
metalkirby777 3 years ago 9
Awesome!! Just AWESOME
5/5
maurieer 3 years ago
One word.... A-maz-ing!!!
beXda313 3 years ago
DeathRottenDecay
Yes, it's the real Chet. "Chet Atkins in 3D" has this song.
stuartzanes 3 years ago
great
igpfpw 3 years ago
You're right on Doug! this is Chet Atkins at is best!
chet1952 3 years ago
Yes. A very young Chet.
daffydoug 3 years ago
are you sure that this i chet?
DeathRottenDecay 3 years ago