# Jerry's Breakdown guitar solo > The guitar solo on Jerry's Breakdown by Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed (1972). From the album Me & Chet. Ranked #494 of all time across 80 lists. Canonical URL: Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, 1972, from *Me & Chet*. Solo by *Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins*. His famous banjo-roll-inspired showpiece, trading dazzling fingerpicked lines with Chet Atkins. Jerry's Breakdown by Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed is ranked #494 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins and the song was released in 1972. ## In our lists - [The Best Jerry Reed Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/jerry-reed-guitar-solos/) — #1 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1972](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1972/) — #13 - [The 16 Best Country Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/country-guitar-solos/) — #5 ## Sources - [Guitarhabits: 50 of The Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.guitarhabits.com/50-of-the-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time/) ### Who played the guitar solo on Jerry's Breakdown? Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins played the solo on Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed's Jerry's Breakdown (1972). ### Where does Jerry's Breakdown rank among the greatest guitar solos? #494 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)