Music Review

Read My Licks

EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: Chet Atkins; Genre: Country

One of the major shapers of country music in the 1960s, both as a guitarist and a producer, Chet Atkins spent the '80s as a New Agey jazz-fusion artist, heavy on synthesizer ambiance and mellow attitude, light on emotional directness. Here on Read My Licks, with his usual pristine playing, he mixes a little muscle with his mantra, but never gets down and dirty enough to muss his Mr. Nice Guy image. B

Originally posted Jul 29, 1994 Published in issue #233 Jul 29, 1994 Order article reprints

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