Two obscure Chet CDs
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:54 pm
I just pulled out two of my Chet CDs to listen to this morning that I haven't played for some time and as I was listening it occurred to me that there may some folks out there in Chet Land that are not familiar with them.
Discover Japan (BVCP-7398) is dated 1995, made and released in Japan and contains 13 tracks of Japanese tunes. All the liner notes are written in Japanese, however there are English phonetic pronunciations of the tune titles. The tunes are unfamiliar, at least to me, but the tone, technique and style are pure Chet.
The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat (RE2 1827) is dated 1999 although some of the literature refers to it being a "1990 collaboration between Chet and Amy Grant". It was released by "Rabbit Ears"and contains 14 tracks. Track one is the title track, a 22 minute children's Christmas story narrated by Amy Grant with Chet playing the music. (Rabbit Ears produced a series of children's stories with music by various artists.) The remaining 13 tracks are just music with Chet and Paul playing all acoustic. All tunes are new recordings (nothing re-released from previous CDs) and consist of two or three Christmas songs, and an early version of "Waiting for Susie B" and "Smokey Mountain Lullaby", and some "untitled" tunes. Some are rather short-ish clips but there are different versions of Silent Night and Smokey Mountain Lullaby. It is really great to hear just Chet and Paul on these tracks!
Forgive me if this is old news to most of you but I thought there might be some Chet nuts out there that were unaware of these two items. Thanks.
Larry Marchino
Discover Japan (BVCP-7398) is dated 1995, made and released in Japan and contains 13 tracks of Japanese tunes. All the liner notes are written in Japanese, however there are English phonetic pronunciations of the tune titles. The tunes are unfamiliar, at least to me, but the tone, technique and style are pure Chet.
The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat (RE2 1827) is dated 1999 although some of the literature refers to it being a "1990 collaboration between Chet and Amy Grant". It was released by "Rabbit Ears"and contains 14 tracks. Track one is the title track, a 22 minute children's Christmas story narrated by Amy Grant with Chet playing the music. (Rabbit Ears produced a series of children's stories with music by various artists.) The remaining 13 tracks are just music with Chet and Paul playing all acoustic. All tunes are new recordings (nothing re-released from previous CDs) and consist of two or three Christmas songs, and an early version of "Waiting for Susie B" and "Smokey Mountain Lullaby", and some "untitled" tunes. Some are rather short-ish clips but there are different versions of Silent Night and Smokey Mountain Lullaby. It is really great to hear just Chet and Paul on these tracks!
Forgive me if this is old news to most of you but I thought there might be some Chet nuts out there that were unaware of these two items. Thanks.
Larry Marchino