1. Endless Road
2. Tall Fiddler
3. (The Man With The) Green Thumb
4. Bella Soave
5. Morning Aire
6. Angelina
7. Windy & Warm
8. Chet’s Ramble
9. Son Of A Gun
10. Sanitarium Shuffle
11. La Visita
12. Mona Lisa
13. Christmas Memories/Wheels
14. Old Town
15. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
16. I Still Can’t Say Goodbye
17. Today Is Mine
18. Struttin’
19. Pegao
Total time: 1.1 hours
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Endless Road
Tommy Emmanuel
Koch Nashville
Aussie fingerpicker Emmanuel still can’t shake mentor Chet Atkins’ death. On “Endless Road,” four songs have an Atkins connection: “The Man With the Green Thumb” (a tribute to Mr. Guitar); “I Still Can’t Say Goodbye” (a revamping of a father-and-son story made famous by Atkins); “Chet’s Ramble” (a melody Atkins was working on when he and Emmanuel recorded their collaboration CD, “The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World”); and a revamping of John D. Loudermilk’s “Windy and Warm” (the first song Emmanuel heard Atkins play).
Elsewhere on this strictly solo, 100% excellent album are versions of “Mona Lisa,” “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Wheels” (Norman Petty’s No. 3 hit for the String-A-Longs) and Jerry Reed’s “Today Is Mine.” The rest are Emmanuel originals. All but two are instrumentals.
Need more incentive? Consider these two facts:
1) Todd Rundgren once called Emmanuel “the two best guitarists” he’d ever seen.
2) Atkins, the original “Certified Guitar Player,” has bestowed that designation on only three other people – Jerry Reed, John Knowles and Emmanuel.
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