Search - Artist/Band: Tommy Emmanuel

• Name: Tommy Emmanuel
• Birthday: 05/31/1955
• Birth Place: Australia
• Decades Active: 1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Finger-Picked Guitar, Smooth Jazz
• Moods: Atmospheric, Bright, Calm/Peaceful, Earthy, Elegant, Freewheeling, Gentle, Laid-Back/Mellow, Playful, Poignant, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Reserved, Sentimental, Soothing, Sophisticated, Wistful

Title	Release
Emmanuel Labor	2008
Happy Hour W	10/23/2006
The Mystery W	08/22/2006
Endless Road WA	03/08/2005
Terra Firma/Determination WA	01/19/2004
Two Originals: Can't Get Enough/Collaboration	01/19/2004
Two Originals: Up from Down Under/Dare to Be Different WA	01/19/2004
The Journey/Classical Gas WA	10/28/2003
Only WA	05/08/2001
The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel WA	2001
Midnight Drive WA	01/21/1997
Terra Firma	1995
The Journey	1993

Tommy Emmanuel, four-time winner of Australia's Best Guitarist award, has helped bring the art of rock guitar down under to a higher awareness over his two-decade-long career by bringing a sense of jazz improvisation into a mix that also includes blues, country, rock, classical, and Spanish music. After years as a popular sideman and ace songwriter, the two-time ARIA (Aussie Grammys equivalent) award winner launched his solo career in 1988 with Up from Down Under. Several releases have followed, most notably his critically acclaimed 1993 release The Journey, which hit high on Gavin and Radio & Records NAC airplay charts. He has shown a mastery and affinity for both electric and acoustic axes and has been singled out by the likes of notable musicians such as Chet Atkins, with whom he recorded The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World in 1997, and Todd Rundgren as being an innovator on the instrument. Only appeared in 2001, followed by 2002's Endless Road (it was finally released in the U.S. three years later), 2005's Live One, and 2006's Happy Hour (with Jim Nichols) and Mystery. ~ Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide