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 […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

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The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers