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 =

| genre = Country, pop

| 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

  1. "Young Thing" (Atkins) – 3:14
  2. "Mountains of Illinois" (Atkins, Pat Bergeson) – 4:10
  3. "After You've Gone" (Creamer, Layton) – 3:31
  4. "Every Now and Then" (Atkins, Goodrum) – 3:01
  5. "Somebody Loves Me Now" (R. L. Kass) – 4:07
  6. "Norway" (Claese Neeb) – 3:41
  7. "Read My Licks" (Allen, Jones) – 4:34
  8. "Take a Look at Her Now" (Bergeson, Kass) – 3:56
  9. "Around the Bend" (Atkins, Jerry Reed) – 3:45
  10. "Dream" (Johnny Mercer) – 4:35
  11. "Vincent" (Don McLean) – 3:48

Personnel

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