More I listen to his performance the more convinced I am - God given gift for all of us. No doubt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Genius !!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP

I've never heard this album. Boy, Chet and his band were on fire for this recording. Guitar players have on and off days, but this is one of the best sessions for Chet and the rest of the guys for sure. Wish I could have been there in the audience.

To be inspired to learn the Guitar you listen to Chet Atkins..Never be another!!

He was just a simple kid from East Tennessee, but wow what a giant he became. Still my favorite thumbpicker.

Genius. My Hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP Chet Atkins

His music lives on.........🙏🙏🙏😎😎😎❤️❤️❤️

Nice to hear this today, with my pickin and studio heros. Just wonderful. Smell the roses, so to speak. Thank you.

This was beyond a shadow of a doubt the best album he ever recorded! There's so many tunes in this album I've heard before, and more that I never knew he recorded, and I just couldn't stop listening to it! ❤

Ridiculously good .

I have never heard such a bright, sonorous and clean Yakety axe anywhere else.

Never heard Chet play so fast and flawless. Better than any studio recording. Many thanks.

This was Chet at his very best - flawless execution, very musical and full of surprises.

Phenomenal music and musicians. Chet Atkins was a legendary musician, record producer, recording executive, and an excellent human being. He is still a legend and certified guitar player. Rest in heaven Chester and Leona! Together again never to part!

I consider myself privileged to have seen him once at a little café in downtown Nashville. Have heard many of his recordings - maybe most - but the personal touch in that café still tops everything.

Wow! The Master...😎😎😎

Chet has had a big influence on me, the first time I heard Chet playing Swedisch rapsody when I was @ age of 17, then I want to play the guitar too. I studied 12 years classicale guitar en Chet style. He is my hero I own 60 LP' s from Chet and own this LP too. Much of his songs are difficult ( can' t play wit my left thumb on the fretboard), because I have short hands (Chet has big hands), @the age of 70, I 'm listening his albums most every day!

Chet Adkins,Jerry Reed,Roy Clarke,Glen Campbell ,Steve Warner,Mark Knopler, are my most favorite guitarist,Oh merle Travis another great , probably all these others hero's.

I challenge anyone to name a more melodical guitarist than the legendary Chet. I can't think of one.

Chet at his flawless best. I'm glad I was on earth to witness his genius live a few times.

0:11 - Wheels 2:11 - Vincent 5:37 - All Thumbs 9:06 - Copper Kettle 12:25 - Bill Cheatham 15:24 - Cascade 18:00 - You'd be so nice to come home to 22:03 - Snowbird 25:25 - Dizzy Fingers 28:07 - Yakety Axe 30:27 - Peanut Vendor 34:43 - Autumn Leaves 38:15 - When you wish upon a star 41:13 - Blue Angel 43:26 - Recuerdos de la Alhambra 47:35 - If I Fell 48:29 - For No One 49:24 - Something 49:54 - Lady Madonna 51:15 - Charade 54:27 - Black Mountain Rag 57:28 - Drown In My Own Tears 1:00:00 -Drive In 1:02:17 - Trambone 1:02:58 - Hello My Baby 1:03:19 - I'll see you in my dreams 1:03:54 - Super Lick 1:03:58 - Poor people of Paris 1:04:42 - Mr. Sandman 1:05:19 - Wildwood flower 1:06:31 - Freight train

This album is the reason I bought a nylon string guitar when I was 20. I was obsessed for years about trying to nail down his style and technique but realized that this is a very special gift that only few are born with .... I still work on it but It's a lot of fun just to have this on my stereo, soak in that magic

So excellent!

Best guitar player that ever lived!

Excellent!

Thanks for cleaning up, digitizing and posting this wonderful show.

Chet said he did his "fingerstyle" guitar technique, because he "didn't know any better." After awhile, he began realizing some of those solo stylings he did were originally done by guitarists and groups with multiple guitars playing at once. But he could copy "multiple guitarists" playing those songs -- by himself. "Didn't know any better," huh? Well I've never heard "any better" either.

Jamais entendu cet enregistrement ! Merci beaucoup ! Chet The Master ! Certes, d'autres ont une technique encore plus travaillée. Mais ce qui fait de Chet le seul et unique à mes yeux, c'est son feeling ! Ce feeling qui fait passer la technique au second plan...

I've seen him play so many times and I never get tired of it. Thank you for making this available for us.

each performance he gave outdoors _ Only 45'55 I was in a boat looking at someone 😌

Merci ! J'ai le 33trs de ce spectacle et j'adore !

Wow! Didn't know about this gem! One of his best for sure. Thank you for posting it!

Nico, Today I am a Happy Man. I guess in all these past years I never really looked in the right place. This past week I did. As you are aware, this wonderful LP was only released in Europe (Recorded Live in Paris). Last week I did tap into Discog and found many copies in France, Germany, Sweden, etc. I finally bought a Mint, Mint- copy in Germany. It's now a done deal and hopefully wafting its way to San Diego. What I never understood is why RCA only released this album in Europe considering Chet's position with RCA in the United States. It's not only a phenomenal performance by Chet and his supporting players, it appears to also be a phenomenal quality sound recording. Live recordings can be iffy at best, but the recording engineers at the Olympic Theater that night had their "A" game on! I'm sure Chet had a big hand in that, perfectionist that he was. Nico, thank you so much for bringing this magic recording to light. Chet fans around the world owe you a great deal of gratitude!

Many thanks for this upload. I am French and had this LP for years and lost it in moving house. I have tried to play some of those great tunes with tabs for such a long time... this LP has had a huge influence on my playing and my love of fingerpicking and the art of Chet Atkins. Marcel Dadi did a lot to make fingerpicking more popular on France also!!

I have been looking for this album for many years. Thank you, thank you, and thanks again for sharing this amazing collection.

The MASTER at work.... PRICELESS. thanks so much for posting. I thought I had all his albums..... I was mistaken.

Great Sound! I usually don't care for the albums uploaded from LP, unless from a pristine (usually brand new) LP . . . CD has spoiled me. I know, I've heard all about the loss of really high and low sounds, blah blah blah, but I'm 70 and can't hear all those anyway. I just can't stand any hiss, pops, clicks. This upload is superb. Thanks for the upload.

Great upload! Thank you very much!!

Thanks for uploading this. I have heard a few of these pieces on "Best of Chet live on the road" but a lot is new. Nice to hear Chet play these tunes live.

My brother saw all three concerts at the Olympia in Paris and was blown away because Chet Atkins played mostly different tunes each evening. It is also noteworthy that so many tunes are played on the acoustic guitar in the style of the "Alone" or "Picking my Way" albums, whereas in the US all the recorded appearances of that period show Chet using the electric guitar a lot more. The reason I think is that Chet Atkins was well advised by Marcel Dadi about the French audience: he introduced Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed's music to the French audience from the early 70's and recorded his 4 first albums until 1979 mostly on acoustic guitars with very little background music, more in plain Merle Travis style, and the French audience of that time much preferred to see the plain "naked" guitar player. So, this is is a unique and extraordinary opportunity to hear Chet Atkins play so many tunes on nylon strings in one concert.

Great album Chet Atkins was the best sub to your channel like 55.

i love it dear lennon

great stuff..paul yandell is in the left speaker..he was phenominal...

Wish it was a video!

For the better part of the past year I have searched for this LP, but I’m beginning to believe that it really doesn’t exist. I’ve been on some many wild goose chases. At one point l heard that was only released in Europe, specifically France. On. visits to all the major vintage record shops in Paris & Bordeaux and in Germany & the UK l’ e had zero luck! So does anyone out there know that this incredible recording exists in LP, cassette, reel to reel or 8-track? As you might surmise, I’m beyond desperate! Come on true Chet fans help me out here!

Nico Borger : Hi Nico. Just wanted to point out that Wildwood Flower was played in between Mister Sandman and Freight Train in the final medley.

Now, this is real music. I hate the shreeky, squawkie noise that other musicians crank out today.

fantastic quality, great stuff. thanks for this upload! I'd love to know the names of some of the tracks he played that night. Any chance to get a tracklist?

Thanks! How did you get such a clear sound? Is this recorded from the LP or digitally available? My version has lots of noise in it.

Chet superb as usual. Did not Henry Strezlicki tour as one of the Blue Boys with Jim Reeves in Norway and Sweden?

The purposefully out of tune harmonies on Peanut Vendor crack me up so much

Wheel's?

Chet singin' good too. He almost told that Dolly joke...."she came from the hills of East Tennessee and brought them with her!"

don't get better, most copied guitarist ever.

Chets trying to sound too much like Jerry Reed and his fi-ness is almost gone! Get back on the Gretsch son!