Tommy Emmanuel

Interview: Certified Guitar Player Tommy Emmanuel talks Tommysongs and Jerry Douglas

March 2, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

How Shadow Bruce Welch helped lay the foundations of a country and bluegrass career. Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is recognised as one of the best acoustic guitarists ever, and he is touring the UK in March […]

Tommy Emmanuel to tour with Jerry Douglas in February

February 7, 2022 Emily Dongray 1

Australian guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel has announced a UK tour in February and March with dobro player Jerry Douglas. The tour supports the new double compilation album ‘The Best of Tommysongs’, available now on Cruzen Street Records. […]

Transatlantic Sessions, Royal Festival Hall, London, 6th February 2020

February 19, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

In its 17th year with little change to the formula, how do the Transatlantic Sessions keep packing out some of the larger venues up and down the country? Quite simple; hosts and musical directors, respectively, the […]

Tommy Emmanuel + Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo, Union Chapel London, 24th May 2018

May 30, 2018 David Fox 0

Islington’s Union Chapel is perhaps the favourite venue of many of the musicians who perform in London. It seats around a thousand people (on very hard Church pews admittedly) but the reward for the gig goer […]

Tommy Emmanuel discusses new collaboration with Jason Isbell

February 5, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

News this morning from our sticky friends over at Paste who hosted Tommy Emmanuel in their midtown Manhattan studio last week. They report: “Emmanuel performed three songs and discussed his new duets album, Accomplice One. The […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

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Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

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