Tommy Emmanuel
Tommy Emmanuel, four-time winner of Australia's Best Guitarist Award, has helped bring the art of rock guitar down under to a higher awareness by bringing a sense of jazz improvisation into a mix that also includes blues, country, rock, classical, and Spanish music. After years as a popular sideman and ace songwriter, the two-time ARIA Award winner launched his solo career in 1988 with Up from Down Under. Several releases followed, notably 1993's critically acclaimed The Journey, which hit high on Gavin and Radio & Records NAC airplay charts. He has shown a mastery and affinity for both electric and acoustic axes, and has been singled out by the likes of notable musicians such as Chet Atkins -- with whom he recorded The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World in 1997 -- and Todd Rundgren, who called him an innovator on the instrument. Only appeared in 2001, followed by 2002's Endless Road (it was finally released in the U.S. three years later), 2005's Live One, and, in 2006, both Happy Hour (with Jim Nichols) and Mystery.
Although Emmanuel took a brief hiatus from the music industry at the end of 2007 for health reasons, that October he recorded all three nights of a residency at the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, California. These recordings made up Center Stage, an acclaimed double-disc live set released in 2008. Equally well received was 2010's Little by Little, a comeback of sorts in the form of a double-studio album featuring a tasteful rendition of Carole King's "Tapestry." Arriving in 2011, All I Want for Christmas nodded in places to John Fahey's classic festive recordings, while 2013's The Colonel & the Governor saw him team up with the equally talented English guitarist Martin Taylor.
Two years later, he delivered the solo studio date It's Never Too Late on Sony, followed by 2016's holiday-themed Christmas Memories. Accomplice One, released in late 2017 on Thirty Tigers, was a landmark set. Emmanuel appeared with one of the best and widest-ranging lineups of string players and featured performers of his career, including Jason Isbell, Mark Knopfler, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, David Grisman, Suzy Bogguss, and Jake Shimabukuro. In 2019, he paired with fellow guitarist John Knowles for Heart Songs. 2020's retrospective The Best of Tommysongs was a double-album of career highlights as well as five new songs written for the collection.
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Accomplice Series, Vol. 3
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 24 Jun 2022
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The Best of Tommysongs
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 8 May 2020
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Accomplice Series, Vol. 2
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 10 Sep 2021
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Accomplice Series, Vol. 1
Tommy Emmanuel, Rob Ickes, Trey Hensley
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 7 May 2021
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Live! at the Ryman (Live)
Jazz - Released by CGP Sounds on 19 May 2017
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Center Stage (Live)
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 4 May 2006
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Endless Road
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 1 Jan 2004
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Little By Little
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 16 Nov 2010
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Kings of Strings: Live in Belgrade (Live)
Tommy Emmanuel, Stochelo Rosenberg, Vlatko Stefanovski
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 17 Mar 2012
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The Very Best Of...
Jazz - Released by Sony Music Entertainment on 1 Jan 2001
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 24 Jun 2022
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The Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emmanuel
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 8 Mar 2005
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It's Never Too Late
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 7 Aug 2015
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The Mystery
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 22 Aug 2006
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Live from the Balboa Theatre (Live)
International Pop - Released by CGP Sounds on 16 Nov 2010
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The Colonel & The Governor
Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor, Tommy Emmanuel, Martin Taylor
International Pop - Released by Mesa BlueMoon Recordings on 1 Mar 2013
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