TOMMY EMMANUEL Today Releases New Video For “Mr. Guitar (Live)” In Honor Of Chet Atkins’ 100th Birthday
DT: JUNE 20, 2024
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TOMMY EMMANUEL
TODAY RELEASES NEWLY SHOT LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO FOR
“MR. GUITAR (LIVE)”
IN HONOR OF WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN CHET ATKINS’ 100TH BIRTHDAY ON JUNE 20
“MR. GUITAR (LIVE)”
IS FEATURED AS A BONUS TRACK ON EMMANUEL’S NEWLY RELEASED ALBUM
‘ENDLESS ROAD: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION’
VIEW THE “MR. GUITAR”
VIDEO HERE
Artist: Tommy Emmanuel
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti
In honor of what would have been Chet Atkins’ 100th birthday today (June 20), Grammy® Award winner TOMMY EMMANUEL has released a newly shot video of “Mr. Guitar” (Live).” It’s a song that TOMMY wrote in honor of the legendary and influential guitar pioneer.
Watch the video, filmed at TOMMY’s home outside of Nashville, TN and directed by Joshua Britt & Neilson Hubbard for Neighborhoods Apart, HERE. It was premiered yesterday (June 19) by The Bluegrass Situation.
The original studio recording of “Mr. Guitar” appeared on Tommy Emmanuel’s 1997 collaborative album with Chet Atkins titled The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World.
A live version the song, “Mr. Guitar (Live),” recorded in St. Louis, is featured as a live bonus track on TOMMY‘s album, Endless Road: 20th Anniversary Edition, released May 28, 2024.
There’s also a new version of “Mr. Guitar” that TOMMY recorded with Grammy-winning bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland. It appears on the multi-artist album WE STILL CAN’T SAY GOODBYE – A Musicians’ Tribute to Chet Atkins, released March 15, 2024.
TOMMY EMMANUEL is an acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, and global touring artist. He is also one of five people ever named a C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary.
“Mentoring and encouraging people is something that Chet always did,” TOMMY says. “I try to do this thing with Gareth (Pearson), and I try to do the same with all young people. I encourage them to do things that I learned from Chet. I hope that somewhere somehow, I showed somebody something because of him that changed their life and made their life better. Cause he sure did that for me.”
Read HERE for more about ENDLESS ROAD: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Regarded as a landmark album within TOMMY’s body of work, Endless Road has now been newly remastered for digital outlets and is also available for the first time ever on vinyl.
TOMMY is also coming off a dynamic 2023. He released his acclaimed collaborations album ACCOMPLICE TWO to great acclaim and earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum.
Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024. The full international list of dates is HERE.
DATE | LOCATION | VENUE |
Thursday, June 20 | Boulder, CO | Chautauqua Auditorium |
Friday, June 21 | Aspen, CO | JAS June Experience |
Sunday, June 23 | Telluride, CO | Telluride Bluegrass Festival |
Wednesday, July 10 | Nashville, TN | Grand Ole Opry |
Friday, July 12 -13 | Nashville, TN | Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention |
Wednesday, October 9 | London, ON | Centennial Hall |
Thursday, October 10 | Toronto, ON | Massey Hall |
Friday, October 11 | Kitchener, ON | Center in the Square (Kitchener) |
Saturday, October 12 | Ottawa, ON | Meridian Theatres |
Sunday, October 13 | Montreal, QC | Place Des Arts Maison Symphonique |
Tuesday, October 15 | Fredericton, NB | The Fredericton Playhouse |
Wednesday, October 16 | Moncton, NB | Capitol Theatre |
Thursday, October 17 | Saint John, NB | Imperial Theatre |
Saturday, October 19 | Halifax, NS | Rebecca Cohn Auditorium |
Thursday, December 5 | Orlando, FL | The Plaza Live |
Friday, December 6 | Fort Myers, FL | Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall |
Saturday, December 7 | Clearwater, FL | Bilheimer Capitol Theatre |
Sunday, December 8 | Jacksonville, FL | Florida Theatre |
Tuesday, December 10 | Charlotte, NC | Knight Theater |
Wednesday, December 11 | Newberry, SC | Newberry Opera House |
Thursday, December 12 | Asheville, NC | The Orange Peel |
Saturday, December 14 | Charlottesville, VA | The Paramount Theater |
Sunday, December 15 | Hopewell, VA | Beacon Theatre |
ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:
TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner 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 CPG (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); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). 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.
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