Biography

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 over his two-decade-long career 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 (Aussie Grammys equivalent) award winner launched his solo career in 1988 with Up from Down Under. Several releases have followed, most 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 considers 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 2006's 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 would make up the acclaimed double-CD live set that was released as Center Stage in April 2008. Equally well-received was 2010’s Little by Little, a comeback of sorts in the form of a double-studio album which featured a tasteful rendition of Carole King's "Tapestry." 2011’s 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. ~ Jonathan Widran & James Wilkinson, Rovi

Top Albums
1. The Guitar M..	2. Center Stage..	3. Endless Road	4. The Mystery	5. Live One (Li..
6. Only (Specia..	7. Little By Li..	8. The Day Fing..	9. The Colonel ..	10. All I Want f..
11. Just Between..	12. The Very Bes..	13. The Journey	14. Classical Ga..	15. Determinatio..
16. Happy Hour (..	17. Can't Get En..	18. Terra Firma	19. Can't Get En..	20. Up from Down..

Top Songs
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Endless Road	4:21	$0.99
2.	Classical Gas (Live)	Live One (Live)	3:31	$1.29
3.	Questions (Live)	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	3:38	$1.29
4.	Beatles Medley (Live)	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	6:10	$1.29
5.	Mombasa (Live)	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	9:14	$1.29
6.	Tennessee Waltz	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	2:36	$1.29
7.	Smokey Mountain Lullaby	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	3:57	$1.29
8.	Tapestry	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	4:57	$1.29
9.	Moon River (Instrumental)	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	4:05	$1.29
10.	Cowboy's Dream	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	3:24	$1.29
11.	Lewis & Clark	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	4:02	$1.29
12.	Gameshow Rag / Cannonball Rag	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	2:26	$1.29
13.	Windy & Warm	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	2:48	$1.29
14.	La Visita	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	3:24	$1.29
15.	Angelina	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	3:42	$1.29
16.	Tall Fiddler	Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emm..	2:28	$1.29
17.	Tall Fiddler (Live)	Cambridge Folk Festival - C..	2:25	$0.99
18.	Keep It Simple	Mystery	3:39	$0.99
19.	Footprints	Mystery	4:03	$0.99
20.	That's the Spirit	Mystery	2:13	$0.99
21.	And so It Goes	Mystery	3:21	$0.99
22.	Diggers' Waltz	Mystery	3:31	$0.99
23.	Lewis & Clark	Mystery	4:05	$0.99
24.	Walls	Mystery	3:40	$0.99
25.	Cowboys' Dream	Mystery	3:27	$0.99

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