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Alone is the forty-fourth studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins. It peaked at number 42 on the Billboard Country Album charts.

Alone
Studio album LP by Chet Atkins
Released	1973
Recorded	RCA "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre	Country, pop
Label	RCA Victor
Chet Atkins chronology
World's Greatest Melodies (1972) Alone (1973) Superpickers (1974)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	(2.25/5)[1]

It was during the recording of this album that Chet was first diagnosed with colon cancer.[2]

Reissues

• In 1989, RCA/Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued Pickin' My Way, Chet Atkins in Hollywood and Alone in a double CD set.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Hawaiian Slack Key" – 2:35
2. "The Claw" (Jerry Reed) – 2:16
3. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 2:01
4. "Flop Eared Mule and Other Classics"
5. "Over the Waves" (Juventino Rosas) – 2:30
6. "Just as I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:25

Side two

1. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) – 2:28
2. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) – 2:42
3. "Blue Finger" – 2:36
4. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) – 2:30
5. "Londonderry Air" (arrangement: Atkins) – 2:58
6. "The Watkins Man" – 2:47

Personnel

• Chet Atkins - guitar, arrangements

Production notes

• Paul Yandell – arrangement - with Chet Atkins ("The Watkins Man")
• Jorge Morel – arrangement ("Take Five")
• Bill Vandevort – engineer
• Mike Shockley – recording technician
• Jimmy Moore – cover photo

References

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