Tommy Emmanuel - The Mystery
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Artist: Tommy EmmanuelEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: Favored Nations
Soundtracks:
- Cantina Senese
- Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag
- The Mystery
- Cowboy's Dream
- Walls
- Lewis & Clark
- The Diggers' Waltz
- Antonella's Birthday
- And So It Goes
- That's The Spirit
- Footprints
- Keep It Simple
Free Music Notes for The Mystery
Free Music Review: A wonderful player, writer, and entertainer.
Hit: 5 Stars
Tommy Emmanuel is an amazing musician. His extraordinary technique could potentially overshadow his incredible writing and arranging skills, but with The Mystery, they all fuse into a glorious panorama of sound. The title track is beautiful, and his Grammy winning Gameshow Rag/Cannon Ball Rag is a mind bending cacophony of blazing walking bass lines over chorded and arpeggiated melodies. Lewis and Clark is a song Tommy describes in his live performances as having been inspired by his readings of the journals of the explorers. As you hear a light tapping on the body of the guitar throughout, you can imagine yourself following Sacagawea through the wilderness. Antonella's Birthday displays his excellent ability to make harmonics a key element of a song. And So it Goes is an interpretation of Billy Joel's beautiful lament. Tommy showcases the song and it's easy to imagine him as an enthusiastic listener while he's the player. Were a guitar able to speak, I'd expect to hear "That's what I'm talking about!" when wrapped in the arms of Tommy Emmanuel. The man has an incredible gift, and I believe he's thankful for that every day of his life.
The Mystery Poster
When Tommy Emmanuel opened this new album with the fire-breathing "Cantina Senese," I suspected he was finally going to do the rip-roaring country-old-timey-Celtic-jazz CD featuring the crowd-pleasing tunes he pulls out during concerts. But it doesn't take him long to slip into the more lyrical playing that has turned up on his recent discs. And that's not a bad thing. Emmanuel is the kind of player who scares other guitarists to death with the range of his influences and the precision of his technique. You can hear both on tracks like "Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag," with Emmanuel doing the 1930s Django Reinhardt thing. But the album is also full of delicate reveries like "The Mystery" and "The Digger's Waltz," the latter based on the military "Taps." The only shortcoming is "Walls," with Emmanuel and his wife, Elizabeth Watkins, in a vocal duet. It's heartfelt but sentimental, and its country-pop sound is like a speed bump in the middle of the disc. But he quickly redeems this "what the hell?" moment with "Lewis & Clark," as he plays gentle cross-rhythms against a melody that unfolds like an epic tale. The Mystery isn't definitive Tommy Emmanuel, but it shows why he's not only one of the finest players, but also one of the most detailed composers for finger-style guitar. --John DilibertoFolk Music CDs
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