Chet Atkins and Lenny Breau "Sweet Georgia Brown"

This is the second time chet recorded this tune..this time with anoth guitar great.
If your ears are not used to those jazz chords, they may sound a little funny to you. But once you get accustomed to them, it's a feast for the ears!

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• chet
• atkins
• lenny
• breau
• sweet
• georgia
• brown
• jazz
• guitar
• mr
• duets

[mvp019]

Chet asserted that Lenny was better - who are we to argue with the man himself?

[daffydoug]

@mvp019 Let me put it this way. Chet was known for being very humble and self effacing.

[mvp019]

@daffydoug Let me put it this way - both were great, but Lenny was better; he was doing things that all the great players of his day were amazed at.

[daffydoug]

@mvp019 Guitar players weren't amazed at Chet??

[saitamme]

this is just beautiful. i love how they start the song on the 2nd half of the 32 bars, totally understated and elegant intro.

[daffydoug]

@saitamme Amazing, isn't it?

[chaosIsTheOnlyPower]

Chet was beyond words in ability and his contibution to the music industry. Lenny was a monster that Chet tried to save from the abyss of drugs. A triumphant but sad recording. Chet lived the full life and got the acolades. Lenny died too young.

Thanks for the post.

[jmcljazz]

Lenny was head and shoulders above any guitarist then or today!

[hunkyguyjake]

@chaosIsTheOnlyPower Agree'd but even Chet thought of Lenny Breau as a genius and he actually was one of the few guitarists that could blow Chets mind...and even chet was known to say Lenny was the "BEST"

[SuperBluesbro]

@jmcljazz so what... that's not what it is about.

[mvp019]

@daffydoug I didn't say that - I love Chet and so do many others. He was one of the greats.

I recommend that you read "One Long Tune" by Forbes-Roberts - available on amazon, and I am quite certain you will enjoy reading it very much if you like guitar and guitarists. Then post here.

[insaneguitarfreak]

now THAT was fucking masterful.