The Night Atlanta Burned

The Night Atlanta Burned
Studio album by
Released1975
RecordedRCA 'Nashville Sound' Studios, Nashville, TN
GenreCountry, folk, bluegrass
Length27:15
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerBob Ferguson and Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Chet Atkins Picks on Jerry Reed
(1974)
The Night Atlanta Burned
(1975)
Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies
(1976)

The Night Atlanta Burned is the forty-sixth studio album by Chet Atkins, credited to "The Atkins String Co." — a quartet comprising Chet, Johnny Gimble, Paul Yandell and Lisa Silver. The album is a fusion of classical musical techniques with country, folk and bluegrass.

The liner notes are by John D. Loudermilk, discussing the burning of Atlanta and the Atlanta Conservatory of Music during the American Civil War.