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Reviews and Commentaries for the Music of Chet Atkins
- Christmas with Chet Atkins is finally back on the site after a two year hiatus, here with INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) Living Stereo sound throughout this original pressing
- Both of these sides are shockingly clean, clear, spacious and present with plenty of bottom end weight
- You won’t believe how natural, rich, tonally correct and Tubey Magical this copy is – until you play it, of course
- Our best copies had both the original Living Stereo label (1961) and the later Stereo label (1965) – the lucky buyer of this copy will discover which pressing earned these grades when he gets it on his turntable
- 4 1/2 stars: “One of the most underrated holiday platters of all-time… this disc should be rated up there with such fodder as Charlie Brown Christmas. Gorgeous.”
Without a doubt this has to be the best sounding Christmas record we have for sale. Sleigh Ride sounds amazing but, as you can see in the reviews for his other classic recordings, most everything sounds amazing on these Bill Porter engineered Chet Atkins records.
Tubey Magical acoustic guitar reproduction is superb on the better copies of this recording. Simply phenomenal amounts of Tubey Magic can be heard on every strum, along with richness, body and harmonic coherency that have all but disappeared from modern recordings (and especially from modern remasterings).