Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World

I'm actually a big fan of Tommy Emmanuel the Australian guitarist. The guys an amazing one man show. And if you play the guitar, you'll be able to appreciate just how mind boggling (and not to mention totally awesome) it really is for one single person to be able to manipulate the guitar like that.

He took this song, written and played by Mason Williams decades ago:



And played it in his own super amazing way and this is what you get, raw, real and live:



I know there are plenty of other great guitarist out there... but I'm pretty sure no one finger picks like he does... I don't know if he's Catholic, but he's practically the Patron Saint of Finger Pickers.

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