Tommy Emmanuel

William Thomas "Tommy" Emmanuel AM (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer, best known for his complex fingerstyle technique, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. Although originally a session player in many bands, Emmanuel has carved out his own style as a solo artist in recent years, releasing award winning albums and singles. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their readers' poll. In June 2010 Emmanuel was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Biography

Emmanuel was born in Australia in 1955. He received his first guitar in 1959 at age four and was taught by his mother to accompany her playing lap steel guitar. At the age of seven in 1961 he heard a young Chet Atkins playing on the radio. He vividly remembers this moment and says it greatly inspired him.

By the age of six, in 1961, he was a working professional musician. Recognizing the musical talents of Tommy and his older brother Phil Emmanuel, their father created a family band, sold the family home and took his family on the road. With the family living in two station wagons, much of Emmanuel's childhood was spent touring Australia with them, playing rhythm guitar, and rarely going to school. The family found it difficult living on the road; they were poor but never hungry, never settling in one place. His father would often drive ahead, organize interviews, advertising and finding the local music shop where they would have an impromptu concert the next day. Eventually the New South Wales Department of Education insisted that the Emmanuel children needed to go to school regularly.

Old Fashioned Love

Old Fashioned Love may refer to:

  • Old Fashioned Love (John Fahey album)
  • "Old Fashioned Love", standard song by James P. Johnson and Cecil Mack recorded by many artists 1923
  • Old Fashioned Love (Smokey Robinson song) (Gary Goetzman, Mike Piccirillo) single from Yes It's You Lady 1982
  • Yes It's You Lady

    Yes It's You Lady is a 1982 album by American singer Smokey Robinson. As 1981's Being with You it was produced by George Tobin and recorded and mixed at Studio Sound Recorders, North Hollywood, California. It was released on the Motown sub-label Tamla.

    Reception

    The album was peaking at #33 in Billboard pop charts, and at #6 on the R&B charts. The two follow-up singles to 1981's chart success' "Being with you" were strangely no Robinson compositions: "Tell Me Tomorrow" peaked at #33 Billboard and #3 R&B charts, "Old Fashioned Love" at #60 Billboard and #17 R&B charts. The third and final single, Robinson's "Yes It's You Lady" only peaked at #107 Billboard, without entering the R&B charts.

    William Ruhlmann of AllMusic gave 2 out of 5 stars. Robert Christgau rated the album as B, praising Robinson's mature voice and singing, while complaining about the weakness of the "material". Concluding with "he almost gets away with it anyway".

    Track listing

    Side A

  • "Tell Me Tomorrow" (Gary Goetzman, Mike Piccirillo) - 6:25
  • Old Fashioned Love (John Fahey album)

    Old Fashioned Love is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1975. It is credited on the cover to John Fahey & His Orchestra.

    History

    In a similar manner as his previous Reprise releases with accompanists, Old Fashioned Love did not sell well. For his part, Fahey remarked that he had never worked with such sympathetic, understanding musicians as he did on this release.

    The front cover is a 1901 photograph of Anna Held, the wife of impresario Florenz Ziegfeld.

    Woody Mann plays duets with Fahey on "In a Persian Market", "Jaya Shiva Shankarah", and "Marilyn". Guitarist Stefan Grossman responded to "The Assassination of Stephan [sic] Grossman" with his own composition, "The Assassination of John Fahey" on his album Thunder on the Run. "Dry Bones in the Valley" was shortened by one minute on subsequent CD reissues.

    The 1930s title song, written by Frank Loesser and Fritz Miller, was the theme song of Fritz Miller and his Orchestra.

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    Walls

    by: Tommy Emmanuel

    G C9 D G
    Some walls are made of stone
    Sometimes we build our own
    Some walls stand for years
    Some wash away with tears
    Some walls are lined with gold where
    Some hearts stay safe and cold
    Some walls are made of doubt
    Holding in and keeping out
    Chorus:
    Em D G
    If there is any hope for love at all
    Em C9 D G
    Some walls must fall
    Some walls are build on pride
    Some keep the child inside
    Some walls are build in fear that
    Love let go will disappear
    Chorus:
    Em D G
    If there is any hope for love at all
    Em C9 D G
    Some walls must fall
    Bridge:
    Em G
    How will you ever know what might be found
    Em C9 D
    Until you let the walls come tumbling down
    Chorus:
    If there is any hope for love at all




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