Galloping Guitar: The Early Years is a multi-disc box-set retrospective recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1993 on the Bear Family label.
This large boxed set (four CDs, 116 songs) focuses on Atkins' earliest recordings from 1940 to 1954. Early in his career, Atkins was signed and marketed mainly as a vocalist who played guitar. The majority of this set includes Chet’s vocal releases as well as guest vocalists. There are a number of instrumentals featured.
The track list is more extensive than Guitar Legend: The RCA Years, covering much of the same material while adding four previously unavailable songs. There are many early Atkins originals and also a large sampling of hard-to-find songs which Atkins co-wrote with Boudleaux Bryant. The biographical essay was written by country music historian Rich Kienzle, known for his expertise on the subject of country guitar.
CD 1
01. Guitar Blues
02. Brown Eyes Cryin' In The Rain
03. Ain'tcha Tired Of Makin' Me Blue
04. I'm Gonna Get Tight
05. Canned Heat
06. Standing Room Only
07. Don't Hand Me That Line
08. Big Dance
09. (I Know My Baby Love Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way
10. The Nashville Jump
11. My Guitar Is My Sweetheart
12. I'm Pickin' The Blues
13. Gone, Gone, Gone
14. Barnyard Shuffle
15. Save Your Money
16. (I May Be Color Blind But) I Know When I'm Blue
17. I've Been Working On The Guitar
18. Dizzy Strings
19. Money, Marbles And Chalk
20. Wednesday Night Waltz
21. Guitar Waltz
22. Telling My Troubles To My Old Guitar
23. Dance Of The Goldenrod
24. Galloping Guitar
25. Barber Shop Rag
26. Centipede Boogie
CD 2
01. Under The Hickory Nut Tree
02. I Was Bitten By The Same Bug Twice
03. One More Chance
04. The Old Buck Dance
05. Boogie Man Boogie
06. Main Street Breakdown
07. Confusin'
08. Music In My Heart
09. Indian Love Call
10. Birth Of The Blues
11. Mountain Melody
12. You're Always Brand New
13. My Crazy Heart
14. Hybrid Corn
15. Jitterbug Waltz
16. One Man Boogie (take H)
17. Crazy Rhythm (instr.)
18. Crazy Rhythm (vocal)
19. Rustic Dance
20. Rainbow
21. In The Mood
22. Spanish Fandango
23. Midnight
24. Good-Bye Blues
25. Your Mean Little Heart
26. Sweet Bunch Of Daisies
27. Blue Gypsy
28. The Third Man Theme
29. One Man Boogie (take D)
CD 3
01. St. Louis Blues
02. Nobody's Sweetheart
03. Lover Come Back To Me
04. Stephen Foster Medley
05. Hangover Blues
06. Imagination
07. Black Mountain Rag
08. Guitar Polka (vocal Rosalie Allen)
09. Dream Train (vocal Rosalie Allen)
10. Meet Mr. Callaghan
11. Chinatown, My Chinatown
12. High Rockin' Swing
13. Pig Leaf Rag
14. Oh By Jingo!
15. Hello My Baby
16. The Bells Of St. Mary's
17. Country Gentleman
18. Memphis Blues
19. Alice Blue Gown
20. 12th Street Rag
21. Peeping Tom
22. Three O'Clock In The Morning
23. Georgia Camp Meeting
24. City Slicker
25. Dill Pickle Rag
26. Rubber Doll Rag
27. Beautiful Ohio (version 1)
28. Kentucky Derby
29. Wildwood Flower
30. Guitars On Parade
31. Simple Simon
32. Rubber Doll Rag (alt.)
CD 4
01. Get Up And Go (vocal Chet Atkins)
02. Pagan Love Song
03. Beautiful Ohio (version 2)
04. Downhill Drag
05. Avalon
06. Sunrize Serenade
07. San Antonio Rose
08. Set A Spell (vocal Red Kirk)
09. Mister Misery (duet vocal)
10. Get Up And Go (vocal Red Kirk)
11. South
12. Alabama Jubilee
13. Corrine, Corrina
14. Indiana (Back Home In Indiana)
15. Red Wing
16. Frankie And Johnnie
17. A Gay Ranchero
18. Ballin' The Jack
19. Honeysuckle Rose
20. Darktown Strutters Ball (with Hank Snow)
21. The Old Spinning Wheel (with Hank Snow)
22. Silver Bells (with Hank Snow)
23. Under The Double Eagle (with Hank Snow)
24. The Birth Of The Blues
25. Have You Ever Been Lonely
26. Caravan
27. Old Man River
28. Mister Sandman
29. New Spanish Two Step
