Afterglow

[lblanchard]

This guy played two full one-hour sets, and toward the end of the second set he stopped and talked about being a young musician, about his mentor Chet Atkins, and about the process of moving to music making ("first you figure things out, and then you build the skills of playing a song until it's completely inside you, and only then do you make the music of the song").

He began with Doc's Guitar, which made me cry, and ended with an encore performance of Classical Gas shot through with a million sly jokes, which made me whoop.

What a musician!

Tommy Emmanuel at the Colonial Theater, Phoenixville PA, June 7, 2012

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Oh, YAY. I'm glad you had a good time, and that he was wonderful.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Of course he was wonderful. He was Tommy Emmanuel. As my colleague Marty Levitt, himself no slouch as a fingerstyle guitarist, says: "that guy has twelve fingers on each hand!"

But thanks for the good wishes anyhow.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Hey Madam

I have tried friending a couple of Laura Blanchards on Farcebook, but neither of them seem to be you. This is me:

https://www.facebook.com/rosa.alecto

Also I have been dreaming about giant hippeastrum - so you must be afffecting my subconscious!

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Friend request sent. My usericon on FB is the same as here on LJ so you should recognize me.