Read My Licks
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{{Infobox album
| name = Read My Licks
| type = album
| artist = Chet Atkins
| cover = Read_My_Licks.jpg|border=yes
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| released = 1994
| recorded = Nashville, TN
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| studio =
| length = 42:22
| label = Columbia
| producer = Chet Atkins, David Hungate
| prev_title = Jazz From the Hills
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = Simpatico
| next_year = 1994
}}
Read My Licks is the fifty-sixth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins.
David Hungate and Atkins again co-produce with a number of guest musicians. Suzy Bogguss contributes a lead vocal on "After You've Gone". She and Atkins released a duet album the same year. Steve Wariner joins Atkins in a vocal as well as a guitar duet on "Read My Licks".
At the Grammy Awards of 1994, "Young Thing" won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
{{Music ratings
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| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} {{cite web |title= Read My Licks > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r206039 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=July 2, 2011}}
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Track listing
- "Young Thing" (Atkins) – 3:14
- "Mountains of Illinois" (Atkins, Pat Bergeson) – 4:10
- "After You've Gone" (Creamer, Layton) – 3:31
- "Every Now and Then" (Atkins, Goodrum) – 3:01
- "Somebody Loves Me Now" (R. L. Kass) – 4:07
- "Norway" (Claese Neeb) – 3:41
- "Read My Licks" (Allen, Jones) – 4:34
- "Take a Look at Her Now" (Bergeson, Kass) – 3:56
- "Around the Bend" (Atkins, Jerry Reed) – 3:45
- "Dream" (Johnny Mercer) – 4:35
- "Vincent" (Don McLean) – 3:48
Personnel
- Chet Atkins – guitar, vocals
- Suzy Bogguss – vocals
- Pat Bergeson – guitar, percussion
- David Hungate – bass
- John Jarvis – keyboards
- Randy Goodrum – keyboards
- Floyd Cramer – keyboards
- Darryl Dybka – keyboards
- Larry Knechtel – piano
- Jim Horn – saxophone
- George Benson – guitar
- Eric Johnson – guitar
- Mark Knopfler – guitar
- R. L. Kass – guitar
- Steve Wariner – guitar, vocals
- Paul Yandell – guitar
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle
- Lonnie Wilson – drums
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsePsTEgiqU Video of Atkins playing Vincent]
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