• Track Listing

Guitarists like Jerry Reed, George Harrison, Carl Perkins, Scotty Moore, Doc Watson, Leo Kottke and Mark Knopfler spent hours listening to the albums contained on this 7-CD set…now it’s your turn! Chet made over 100 albums during his 50-year-plus career, but these 1955–60 releases are widely considered to be his best, displaying perhaps the greatest guitar technique of all time. Also here are 16 unissued masters and alternate takes including tracks from an abandoned Elvis Presley tribute; 20 SESAC recordings, never commercially issued; single and EP tracks and even, as a bonus, Chet’s first commercial recording from 1945! 214 tracks! Bear Family.