New York, NY (Top40 Charts) TOMMY EMMANUEL, the acclaimed and Grammy-nominated acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter, will release a newly recorded career-spanning double album on May 8, THE BEST OF TOMMYSONGS, via CGP Sounds/Cruzen Street Records. TOMMY has already shared the video for the album's first single, "Fuel," available this Friday, March 6. Guitar Player magazine premiered the "Fuel" video this past Wednesday.
Joshua Britt and Neilson Hubbard with Neighborhoods Apart Productions directed and edited the "Fuel" video, which was shot in a rural old home in Franklin, KY. Some of the footage was shot with TOMMY's own I-Phone as he was traveling throughout Asia. Says TOMMY about writing the song:
"I boarded a train in Paris, France to ride the rails to Cologne, Germany. Looking out the window, I saw a billboard for 'Harry Potter World,' that set me in motion. I got my guitar out and started looking for cinematic chords and ideas. Three hours later, I had the entire song written and was practicing it up. I had no title at that stage and when I played it for a friend he asked "what's fueling this emotion?" Immediately I reacted, "You just gave me the title, 'Fuel'! Even though there's time changes and odd bars in the song, you can actually tap time straight through it. In my own way, this is a small attempt at paying homage to
Mason Williams, the brilliant composer of 'Classical Gas.'"
THE BEST OF TOMMYSONGS is a double album that features some of Tommy Emmanuel's best original songs. Emmanuel solely wrote, produced, and recorded all the tracks on this record. Emmanuel has been playing some of these songs for over 30 years, and they have evolved over time. He wanted to rerecord them to suite the modern arrangements and to make them sound bigger than ever. The album features some of EMMANUEL's most well-known works such as "Angelina," "Lewis & Clark," and "It's Never Too Late" along with fan favorites such as "
Mombasa" and "Train to Dusseldorf." It also has 5 brand new songs including the heart-thumping "Fuel" and the beautifully melodic "Song For A Rainy Morning." Watch the album trailer here which focuses on TOMMY's unique ability to tell stories without words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SOQEMWYAQ4&feature=youtu.be
All the songs on the album written, performed, and produced by TOMMY EMMANUEL.
It was engineered by Rory Rositas and Brad Benge at OmniSound in Nashville; mixed by Marc DeSisto and TOMMY EMMANUEL at Luke's Room Studio in Los Angeles; and mastered by Marc DeSisto at Luke's Room Studio in Los Angeles.
Track List
Song for A Rainy Morning*
Angelina
Halfway Home
Fuel*
The Wide Ocean*
It's Never Too Late
(The Man With The) Green Thumb
The Mystery
Timberland*
Timberlake Road
Sail On*
Blood Brother
Endless Road
Luttrell
Ruby's Eyes
Lewis & Clark
Train to Dusseldorf
Mombasa
Cowboy's Dream
Rachel's Lullaby
Questions
Those Who Wait
Drivetime
Stay Close To Me
*Previously Unreleased Songs other-worldly talent.
Catch TOMMY EMMANUEL on the road:
FRI 3/6 Huntsville, AL Von Braun Center *
SAT 3/7 Birmingham, AL Lyric Theatre *
MON 3/9 Bismark, ND Belle Mehus Auditorium ^
TUE 3/10 Fargo, ND Fargo Theater ^
THU 3/12 Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theatre #
FRI 3/13 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre #
SAT 3/14 Louisville, KY Brown Theatre #
FRI 3/20 Buenaventura, Panama 2020 Beaches Jazz & Blues Festival
WED 3/25 Duluth, MN NorShor Theatre^
FRI 3/27 Mississauga, ON Living Arts Centre^
SAT 3/28 Calgary, AB Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts^
MON 3/30 Edmonton, AB Myer Horowitz Theatre^
WED 4/1 Victoria, BC Victoria Conservatory of Music^
TUE 4/2 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre^
WED 4/15 Midwest City, OK Rose
State College Hudiburg Chevrolet Center^
THU 4/16 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland^
FRI 4/17 Lincoln, NE The Rococo Theatre^
SAT 4/18 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre^
SUN 4/19 Des Moines, IA Hoyt Sherman Place^
MON 4/20 Elmhurst, IL Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel
WED 4/22 Kalamazoo, MI Kalamazoo
State Theatre**
THU 4/23 Columbus, OH Jo Ann Davidson Theatre**
FRI 4/24 Frankfort, KY Grand Theatre>
SAT 4/25 Wilkesboro, NC MerleFest
MON 4/27 Virginia Beach, VA Sandler Center Plaza**
WED 4/29 Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre**
THU 4/30 Tarrytown, NY Tarrytown
Music Hall**
FRI 5/1 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center**
SAT 5/2 Albany, NY The Hart Theatre at The Egg^
SUN 5/3 Cleveland, OH Ohio Theatre^
WED 5/27 Sherbrooke, QC Granada Theatre##
THU 5/28 Ottawa, ON Algonquin Commons Theatre##
SAT 5/30 Rouyn-Noranda, QB Festival des Guitares Du Monde
THU 6/4 Boulder, CO Chautauqua+
FRI 6/5 Bellvue, CO The Mishawaka+
SUN 6/7 Pagosa Springs, CO Pagosa Folk N' Blues Bluegrass Festival
THU 6/25 Ridgefield, CT Ridgefield Playhouse++
FRI 6/26 East Greenwich, RI The Greenwich Odeum++
SAT 6/27 Derry, NH Tupleo
Music Hall++
MON 6/29 Montreal, QB Montreal Jazz Festival
SAT 7/11 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse++
SUN 7/12 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse++
SUN 7/19 Gettysburg, PA Majestic Theatre&
MON 7/20 Pittsburgh, PA Roxian Theatre&
WED 7/22 Northampton, MA Academy of Music$
THU 7/23 Boothbay, ME The Opear House at Boothbay Harbor$
FRI 7/24 Hiram, ME Ossipee
Music Festival
THU 9/9 Wilmington, NC Greensfield Lake Ampitheatre<
FRI 9/10 Richmond, VA Carpenter Theatre
SAT 9/11 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Center for the Arts<
SUN 9/12 New York, NY The Town Hall<
MON 9/13 Buffalo, NY Asbury Hall at Babeville<
TUE 9/14 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak
Music Theatre^
THU 9/16 Indianapolis, IN The Egyptian^
FRI 9/17 St. Louis, MO The Sheldon Concert Hall^
SAT 9/18 St. Louis, MO The Sheldon Concert Hall^
SUN 9/19 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium!
Support Acts
*Lance Allen
>Pat Bergeson &
Annie Sellick
$Mike Dawes
++Daniel Donato
**Jerry Douglas
#Sierra Hull
^Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
!Jorma Kaukonen
+Andy McKee
##Gareth Pearson
^Joe Robinson
&Sean Rowe
TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, he was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n' roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a Certified Guitar Player by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He's piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy) and repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader's poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue. A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent. 
