Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns

Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns is the seventeenth studio album of instrumental gospel hymns by guitarist Chet Atkins.

Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released	1962
Recorded	Nashville, TN
Genre	Country, gospel
Length	28:29
Label	RCA Victor LSP-2601
Producer	Anita Kerr
Chet Atkins chronology
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Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Writing for Allmusic, critic Jason Ankeny wrote that the album is "simply too brief to stand as a definitive collection of the guitarist's spiritual recordings; his instrumental work is impeccable of course, but performances of favorites like "Amazing Grace," "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" and "The Old Rugged Cross" pass by too quickly to properly whet the listener's appetite."^[1]

Reissues

• Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns was re-released by BMG in 1998.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" (Thomas A. Dorsey) – 2:43
2. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 2:36
3. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Traditional) – 2"07
4. "In the Garden" (C. Austin Miles) – 2:31
5. "When They Ring the Golden Bells" (Traditional) – 2:30
6. "Just As I Am" (William B. Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 1:43

Side two

1. "Further Along" (Traditional) – 3:03
2. "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" (Traditional) – 2:05
3. "The Old Rugged Cross" (George Bennard) – 2:25
4. "Lonesome Valley" (Carter) – 2:02
5. "God Be With You" (Traditional) – 2:33
6. "Were You There" (Traditional) – 2:11

Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar