Guitar Monsters is an album by Chet Atkins and Les Paul, released by RCA Records in 1978. It is their second collaboration, after their Grammy Award-winning release Chester & Lester.
At the Grammy Awards of 1978, Guitar Monsters was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell recalled the success of the duo's first collaboration and wrote of this album "the results are just about as marvelous."
Reissues Guitar Monsters and Chester and Lester were released on CD in 1989 by Pair Records as Masters of the Guitar: Together with some tracks omitted.[ Allmusic review of Masters of the Guitar.] Both albums were re-released with the two albums intact on one CD in 1998 by One Way Records.
Track listing Side one "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) - 2:50 "I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) - 3:41 "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:41 "Meditation" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 2:32 "Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin ) - 3:01 "I'm Your Greatest Fan" - 3:49
Side two "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 2:58 "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) - 4:04 "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Russell) - 2:41 "Give My Love to Nell" (Traditional) - 2:53 "Hot Toddy" (Ralph Flanagan) - 3:00
Personnel Chet Atkins – guitar Les Paul – guitar Joe Osborne – bass Buddy Harman, Larrie Londin, Randy Hauser – drums Randy Goodrum – piano Paul Yandell – rhythm guitar
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