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▓█ █▓░█ ▒ Tommy Emmanuel - Live at her Majesty's Theatre (Ballarat, █░▒█ █▓
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▀█▄▄ ▀ ARTiST..[ Tommy Emmanuel ▀ ▄▄█▀
░ █ ▀█ TiTLE...[ Live at her Majesty's Theatre (Ballarat, Australia) █▀ █ ░
▒ █ ▀█ GENRE...[ Jazz GRABBER.[ EAC █▀ █ ▒
▓ █▄ █ LABEL...[ Favored Nations ENCODER.[ Lame 3.97b2 █ ▄█ ▓
█▄ █▄ █ YEAR....[ 2006 QUALiTY.[ VBR kbps/44,1hz █ ▄█ ▄█
█▄ █▄█ SOURCE..[ DVD MODE....[ Full Stereo █▄█ ▄█
█ ▀█ PLAYTIME[ 55:42 min REL.DATE[ Jun-24-2006 █▀ █
██▄ TRACKS..[ 16 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ▄██
░ █▓█▄ SiZE....[ 93,4 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ▄█▓█ ░
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▒ █▄ ▀█ NR. TRACK. TiME. █▀ ▄█ ▒
▓▄ █ █ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ █ █ ▄▓
█ █░ █ 01 tall fiddler 02:14 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 02 antonella's birthday 02:35 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 03 nine pound hammer 03:53 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 04 cannonball rag 01:43 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 05 somewhere over the rainbow 05:19 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 06 heartbreak hotel 05:54 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 07 do i ever cross your mind? 02:35 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 08 dream a little dream 03:40 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 09 walls 03:13 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 10 together alone 03:13 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 11 levis & clark 04:02 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 12 cowboy's dream 03:13 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 13 that's all 04:41 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 14 tahitian skies 03:07 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 15 (the man with the) green thumb 03:12 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 16 i still can't say goodbye 03:08 █ ░█ █
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█ ▀█▄█ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ░ █▄█▀ █
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█ █▓░█ About Tommy Emmanuel C.G.P █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Tommy Emmanuel's professional career spans over █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ forty-five years and continues to intersect with some █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of the finest musicians throughout the world. A █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ household name in his native Australia, Tommy has █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ garnered tens of thousands of loyal fans on five █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ continents. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Tommy's unique style - he calls it simply "finger █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ style" - is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ plays piano. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Guitar legend Chet Atkins was one of the first people █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to inspire Emmanuel to pick up the instrument. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Decades later, Atkins himself became one of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Emmanuel's biggest fans. Chet and Tommy ended up █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ recording together in 1996 on the CD, "The Day the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Finger Pickers Took Over the World", which was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ nominated for a Grammy award. Sadly, this became █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Chet's last recording before his death in 2001. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ In 1999, Chet honored Tommy Emmanuel with the rare █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ title of "Certified Guitar Player" for his lifetime █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ contribution to the art of fingerstyle guitar █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ playing, an honor shared by only two other people in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the world (Jerry Reed and John Knowles). █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ In his storied career, Emmanuel has set sales records █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ that have yet to be broken and performed with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ hundreds of musical legends including Chet Atkins, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Eric Clapton, Sir George Martin, Hank Marvin, Joe █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Walsh, Stevie Wonder, Nokie Edwards (of the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Ventures), Les Paul, Keith Urban, the Lexington █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ (Kentucky) Philharmonic, the Dortmund (Germany) █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Symphony, and the Western Australian Symphony █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Orchestra. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Tommy's unique style - he calls it simply "finger █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ style" - is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ plays piano. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Tommy Emmanuel is not only a very accomplished █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ guitarist but also plays drums (on both a drum kit █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ AND on his guitar!) and sings. The consummate █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ musician was voted Rolling Stone (Australia) █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Magazine's "Most Popular Guitarist" for two █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ consecutive years and has earned four Platinum and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Gold albums. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ In Australia, Emmanuel's music and life are █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ legendary. He began playing guitar at age 4, learning █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to play by ear without any formal instruction. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Emmanuel and his older brother Phil were child █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ prodigies, starting their professional career in the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 1960s. By the age of six, Tommy was already working █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ as a professional musician. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Shortly after his father's death in 1966, the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Emmanuel family were approached by Australian country █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ music star Buddy Williams, who took the family on the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ road until they were forced by the Australian child █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ welfare department to stop traveling. The Emmanuel █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ children were then sent to a regular school. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ During these years, Tommy was playing in "the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Trailblazers" (with siblings Chris on drums and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Virginia on slide guitar) on weekends. He also taught █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ guitar two nights a week and made numerous television █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ appearances in music competitons. Emmanuel's first █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ brush with fame and accolades came when The █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Trailblazers won two televised talent contests and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ produced an EP. He and his siblings worked hard to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ create the family's sole income for several years. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Flush with success, Emmanuel, now in his early teens, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ left home and moved to Sydney to pursue a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ professional career as a guitarist. Playing clubs all █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ over the city, Emmanuel's guitar skills were on █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ public display and did not go unnoticed for very █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ long. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ He soon found himself in high demand as a session █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ player for some of the era's most popular performers. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ During the mid to late 70s and the early '80s, he █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ joined one of the decade's biggest, Dragon, recorded █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ thousands of "jingles", and played on recordings for █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Air Supply and dozens of other popular artists. He █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ also recorded sessions with Tiny Tim and Roberta █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Flack.s █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ In 1987, Dragon toured with Tina Turner on her "Break █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Every Rule" tour. With 15 recordings now under his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ belt, Emmanuel's boundless talent and indomitable █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ skill consistently impress music critics and fans █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ alike. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ In 2005, Tommy played for the first time to new █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ audiences in Korea, Poland and Croatia. Additionally, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in 2006, he will perform for the first time to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ audiences in Slovenia and Belgium, along with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ addtional touring across the USA, Europe and Asia. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ His dazzling performances, flawless guitar skills and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ voluminous repertoire never fail to amaze audiences █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ everywhere he goes. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ From the wilds of Australia's outback to gleaming █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ metropolises all over the world, Emmanuel's flair and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ unforgettable showmanship have created an enviable █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ fan base that continues to grow even larger every █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ year. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Following the success of Only and Endless Road, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Favored Nations Acoustic is releasing two new █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ projects from Tommy Emmanuel c.g.p. (certified guitar █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ player): a DVD entitled Live at Her Majesty's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Theatre, Ballarat, Australia, followed by the CD The █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Mystery. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ A finger style guitarist inspired by the legendary █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Chet Atkins (who became one of Emmanuel's biggest █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ fans and gave him the title c.g.p.), he can █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ simultaneously play multiple parts, much like a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ pianist does with his left and right hands. But his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ astounding technique isn't just for show; Emmanuel █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ uses it to organically blend folk, country, jazz, and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ other influences in his highly personal, emotive █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ compositions. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Born in Australia, Emmanuel began playing the guitar █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ by ear at the age of four, he started his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ professional career at the age of six with his older █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ brother, Phil. Emmanuel's career really took off, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ though, when as a teenager he left home and moved to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Sydney in the 1960s. There, he quickly established █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ himself as an in-demand session player, recording █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ thousands of commercials and backing up such noted █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ pop artists as Air Supply and Roberta Flack. Emmanuel █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ went on to play with huge stars Eric Clapton, Joe █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Walsh, Stevie Wonder, and Les Paul. The consummate █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ musician was voted Rolling Stone (Australia) █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ magazine's "Most Popular Guitarist" for two █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ consecutive years and has earned four Platinum and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Gold albums in his native homeland. The Australian █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ guitarist even recorded with his hero, Chet Atkins, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ on the Grammy-nominated album The Day Finger Pickers █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Took Over the World. But as talented as he is █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ accompanying others, it is on his own that Emmanuel █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ really shines, as eager concert audiences worldwide - █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ from Croatia to the U.S. - can attest to. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ While Emmanuel has enjoyed touring the world, he has █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ by no means forsaken his eager Australian audiences. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ In November of 2005, he embarked on a regional tour, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ giving a particularly brilliant performance in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Ballarat, in the region of Victoria, at Her Majesty's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Theatre - Australia's best-preserved performing arts █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ hall, which has been in continuous use since 1875. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ The show was captured on the Live at Her Majesty's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Theatre DVD, on which the hall's naturally pristine █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ acoustics are enhanced with DTS 5.1 channel surround █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ sound. Directed by Mark Bayly, it was shot with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ multiple cameras and is presented in widescreen █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ format, so that the home viewer can enjoy a front-row █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ experience. As a bonus, in between the songs, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Emmanuel discusses his music and his life. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ A must for any Emmanuel fan, the DVD offers an ample █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ overview of the guitarist's finest songs and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ interpretations, including works found on the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ previous Favored Nations Acoustic release Endless █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Road and new compositions from his upcoming CD. From █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the blazing bluegrass runs of "Tall Fiddler"; to a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ colorful take on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ its dazzling harp-style harmonics; to "Walls," a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ beautiful duet sung with fiancΘe Elizabeth Watkins, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Live at Her Majesty's Theatre is a stylistically █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ diverse yet cohesive set of tunes in all. And █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Emmanuel is especially proud of the DVD. "I think it █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ showcases my entire musical life; you really get to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ see my different influences coming together quite █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ nicely. And, being back in Australia made for a truly █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ inspired evening," he says. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ The follow up studio release The Mystery was inspired █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ by Emmanuel's travels with Watkins; each of the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ album's compositions is a musical snapshot or █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ sojourn. The album's spirited opener, "Cantina █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Senese," has some delicious mandolin-like lines and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ evokes the feelings of being at a special restaurant. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Emmanuel explains, "Cantina Senese - which is located █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in Livorno, Tuscany, near Florence - is a very █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ interesting place. You walk through the front door █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and into another dimension: the smell of garlic, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ coffee, and cigarettes, and the buzz of people █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ talking combine to create a unique, magical █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ experience. I tried to capture this ambience in a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ composition." █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ "Lewis & Clark," which appears on both the DVD and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ CD, with its "cowboy chords" and lilting folk melody, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ is a tribute to the American expedition of the early █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 1800s. Of the track, Emmanuel says, "I used overtones █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of the Old West to tell a story of the great unknown, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of an untouched expanse of land. The tune also deals █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ with the interaction of the explorers and the Native █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Americans." █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ The meditative title track, meanwhile, has a less █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ geographical theme. Its wistful chords and ringing █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ arpeggios address wonder at the universe, at the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ essence of life. "The Mystery' is all about God's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ love," says Emmanuel, "about human lives and how we █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ all fit together; it's about the things we see - and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the things we don't." █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ "The Diggers' Waltz" came from a dream of Emmanuel's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in which an elderly soldier, while preparing to be █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ honored for his wartime deeds, sees the ghost of his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ wife and dances with her. The track's first section █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ is borrowed from military funeral music. "This is █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ only my second waltz," says Emmanuel. "A 'digger' was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ a soldier who prepared trenches in World Wars I and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ II. Nowadays, digger is a term of endearment - an old █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ friend, an honest, straight-up guy. So, this song has █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ that sort of feel-good vibe to it. And the dancing is █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ where the waltz comes in." █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ "Walls" is a song penned by the Grammy-nominated duo █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of Pam Rose and Mary Ann Kennedy - whose tunes have █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ been recorded by Reba McEntire, Martina McBride, and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ others - along with co-writer Randy Sharp. Emmanuel █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ sings and plays this warm, optimistic song with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Watkins. And what sounds like a full band is actually █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ all Emmanuel, who's also quite an accomplished █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ drummer. He says, "We first recorded that song with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ just me and a guitar, then we added Lizzie. But then █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ it seemed like it needed something more, so I █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ overdubbed bass and drums. It turned out very nice; I █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ love the song's beautiful message - that there is █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ hope for love, but some walls must fall in order for █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ it to succeed." █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Not surprisingly, Emmanuel regards The Mystery as his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ greatest work to date. Indeed, the album's many █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ moods, idioms, and references - to say nothing of its █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ stunning virtuosity - fully demonstrate the complex █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ though accessible musician that Emmanuel is. The █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ modest c.g.p. puts it best: "I don't usually listen █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to my own work; I tend to record something, and then █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ move on. But I've been enjoying the album a lot, as █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ it's deeper and more special than anything I've ever █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ done. I think that's a good sign." █░▓█ █
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