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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SOLO

In the past five years alone, instrumental blues legend Tommy Emmanuel has released eight full-length studio albums. Even for someone who wasn’t over 20 records and 57 years deep into their solo tenure – who’d endured heart problems a decade earlier from literally working too hard – that would be a monumental effort.

But of course, Tommy Emmanuel is no mere mortal when it comes to the guitar. The Muswellbrook-native 63-year-old is a superhuman behind a set of strings – one of

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