Superpickers

Superpickers is a 1974 album by guitarist Chet Atkins and top recording session players in Nashville, TN.

"Fiddlin' Around" reached No. 75 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.

Reception
Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "Atkins joins together with an A-list of Nashville session musicians for a set of picking extravaganzas... Atkins himself is goaded into some wonderful playing as a result, and Superpickers is one of his best albums."

Reissues

 * Superpickers was reissued on CD in 1998 along with Picks on the Hits by One Way Records.

Side one

 * 1) "Paramaribo" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:27
 * 2) "Fiddlin' Around" (Johnny Gimble) – 3:06
 * 3) "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:35
 * 4) "Beef and Biscuits" (Mat Camison) – 2:35
 * 5) "Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) – 2:44

Side two

 * 1) "Just Another Rag" (Atkins, Jerry Reed Hubbard) – 2:38
 * 2) "Canadian Pacific" (Ray Griff) – 3:50
 * 3) "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman) – 3:26
 * 4) "Bells of Saint Mary's" (Doug Tringer) – 2:51
 * 5) "Are You from Dixie ('Cause I'm from Dixie Too)" (George L. Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 3:02

Personnel

 * Chet Atkins - guitar
 * Johnny Gimble - fiddle
 * Buddy Spicher - fiddle
 * Buddy Harman - drums
 * Charlie McCoy - harmonica
 * Weldon Myrick - pedal steel guitar
 * Jerry Shook - guitar
 * Farrell Morris – percussion
 * Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
 * Larrie Londin - drums
 * Paul Yandell - guitar, ukulele
 * Henry Strzelecki -bass
 * Bobby Thompson - banjo, guitar