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East Tennessee Christmas is the fifty-first studio album and the second Christmas album by guitarist Chet Atkins, issued by Columbia Records in 1983. Atkins had recorded a Christmas with Chet Atkins previously for RCA Victor 22 years earlier. He covers some of the same territory in this release but with a smoother production.
Atkins was born on June 20, 1924, in Luttrell, Tennessee, near Clinch Mountain.His parents divorced when he was six years old, after which he was raised by his mother. He was the youngest of three boys and a girl.
Chet Atkins' discography is large and diverse.Not only did he release principal studio albums as a solo artist, he was a prolific and much sought-after collaborator. He also played as a sideman on many more.
Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley constructed a new 3-story building at the original address of 806 17th Avenue South (the street would be renamed Music Square West in 1975) to be leased by RCA Victor. Half of the building was built as office space for the label's Nashville division, and the other half was a new recording studio.
In 2004, RCA reissued Christmas with Chet Atkins on CD. In 2019, Real Gone Music released The Complete RCA & Columbia Christmas Recordings, a 2-CD set gathering all the material from Christmas with Chet Atkins as well as Atkins' 1983 release East Tennessee Christmas.
RCA Studio B was a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee established in 1957 by Steve Sholes and Chet Atkins for RCA Victor.Originally known simply as the RCA Victor Studio, in 1965 the studio was designated as Studio B after RCA Victor built the newer, larger Studio A in an adjacent building.
Tennessee Christmas" a 1983 song by Amy Grant, also re-recorded by Grant in 2016 for her above mentioned album 2008 cover version of Grant's song by Point of Grace from their above mentioned album "East Tennessee Christmas" by Chet Atkins from his above mentioned album
That title, as well as "Country Gentleman", became names assigned to Chet. "Country Gentleman", co-written with Boudleaux Bryant, was a minor hit for Atkins in 1953. That original version was recorded in a garage. [2] The liner notes are by David Halberstam, then writing for The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee.