I saw a very different guitar player this afternoon on PBS live music series Sierra Center Stage, an Aussie named Tommy Emmanuel who played a set of acoustic instrumentals that used his guitar as a percussion kit as much as a normal guitar. A lot of energy, a lot of creativity. He ended with a song called Initiation that was really intense, very deep, though he introduced it as telling a story that I could not connect to what I heard at all. Nice change of pace, for sure.

Note that his website uses a very poor design but you can listen to his music by clicking the “his TUNES” image at the bottom right, clicking on an album title and then on a song title. Or cheat and click here to go straight to his discography.