Equally, if not more, delightful was that fact that he scored a chart-topping hit with the album’s main single, a cover of “Got My Mind Set On You.”Įspecially delightful to Harrison, Beatle and Gretsch fans, however, was the album’s cover. Come to think of it, 1955’s Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions also has three Gretsch guitars on the cover, but since none of them are locked in the joyous embrace of a sultry brunette, A Session With Chet Atkins gets the nod here.Īfter a half-decade hiatus in his recording career, George Harrison re-appeared to surprise and delight everyone with his tenth solo album, 1987’s Cloud Nine. The 1954 original cover somewhat somberly pictured Atkins himself, and while the ’61 re-issue cover doesn’t, what it does picture is three-count ’em, three-Gretsch guitars: a Tennessean, a Duo Jet and a 6120 the latter locked in the joyous embrace of a sultry brunette. So this one is kind of a tough call.Īfter much consideration, we’re going with the 1961 re-issue of 1954’s A Session With Chet Atkins because it must be the Gretsch-iest original-era album cover ever. There are only about a bazillion Chet Atkins albums that feature a Gretsch guitar on the cover, usually in the hands of the master himself, and all of them look fabulous. A Session With Chet Atkins (Chet Atkins, 1961)
Here then, in no particular chronological order, are eight fine album covers notable for being graced with great Gretsch guitars:ġ. So it’s no surprise that they often made their way onto the album covers of those who played them and put them to such great use. Gretsch guitars are fabulous-looking instruments.
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