Artist:Tommy Emmanuel
Song:It's Never Too Late
Album:It's Never Too Late
Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is popular with acoustic guitar geeks. These fans are more concerned with guitar technique than the music. A guy like Emmanuel doesn't need hit singles. He has his own cottage industry set up. He was born May 31, 1955 in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia. He was one of six children. His mother gave him a guitar when he was four years. Then he heard Chet Atkins on the radio and was inspired to be a musician. His older brother Phil also plays guitar. So their dad formed a band they went on the road. When he died in 1966, Aussie country singer Buddy Williams asked the family if the boys could go on the road with him. Emmanuel moved to Sydney in the 70s and won talent contests. The Emmanuel brothers formed the band Goldrush and played sessions. In the 80s, Emmanuel played with singer Doug Parkinson and the band Dragon. He went solo in the 90s. Emmanuel signed with Columbia and I guess his music at the time could be described as jazz. His albums did well on the Australian charts. As time went on, he got into recording solo acoustic guitar as on the 2015 album It's Never Too Late. So it's made him popular with guitar geeks and he records instructional albums and videos. Now that he lives in the US, Emmanuel seems to be more popular than ever. He is currently on tour in Canada. So Emmanuel has quite the cottage industry outside the mainstream music industry. Here's Tommy Emmanuel performing It's Never Too Late at the Cumberland Caverns in Tennessee.
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