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 his critically acclaimed 1993 release 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 as being 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. ~ Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
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| Tommy Emmanual, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder | Sun, Jan 11 7:30p | B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill, Manhattan, NY |
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| Tommy Emmanuel | Sat, Feb 14 7:30p | Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Tommy Emmanuel | Fri, Feb 20 7:30p | Theatre Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL |
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| Tommy Emmanuel | Sat, Feb 21 8:00p | Newberry Opera House, Newberry, SC |
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| Tommy Emmanuel | Sun, Feb 22 7:30p | The National, Richmond, VA |
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| Tommy Emmanuel | Thu, Nov 5 8:00p | Theater Am Aegi, Hannover, Niedersachsen |
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