The Mystery is an album by Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel that was released in 2006. The album includes the track Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag which was nominated for Best Country Instrumental Performance at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The song won Instrumental of the Year at the 2007 Country Music Awards of Australia. This album has a peace and a gentleness that emanates throughout the compositions. The song titles offer some insight: Cowboy’s Dream, The Mystery, That’s the Spirit, Footprints, Keep it Simple. The record also features one of Emmanuel’s most popular original songs Lewis & Clark, and a very beautiful instrumental arrangement of the Billy Joel classic And So It Goes. In honor of the 20th Anniversary…
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Sounds Like Art is an exciting new concert initiative that invites musicians to perform amongst works of art in a European museum of their choice. World-renowned artist Sting performs in the beautiful surroundings of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum amongst paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Judith Leyster, and reflects on the works of the old masters.
A dozen records into his career, Canadian country musician 
Down in rural Tennessee, place names often arose from the activities that occurred there: Whetstone Mountain, Poorhouse Branch, Tater Hill, Washboard Creek. If this folk etymology holds, it makes you wonder what was going on in Sweet Lips, Finger, and Hookers Bend. Each of these locations lends its name to a song on 
It’s always good to see young guitarists coming through and flying the flag for acoustic instrumental music. Miami-based 21-year-old instrumentalist 
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…Originally shelved by his label in 2001, this 21-track record has finally seen an official release.
Brent Cobb is pulling the curtain back on the songwriting that has defined his career on his new acoustic album 
From the start of her career, Jackie De Shannon was a great singer, with a strong instrument and a fine sense of how to invest her performances with emotion and nuance. However, DeShannon has said more than once that Liberty, the label that she was signed to through the 1960s, was more interested in her as a songwriter than a performer (she’d already penned a hit for Brenda Lee, “Alone With You”). So it was a real paradox that when she recorded her first LP in 1963, Liberty insisted that she record a set of covers rather than her own material. (The album included three tracks by Bob Dylan, only months after the release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, though the label turned down her suggestion to cut a full album of his work.) DeShannon’s debut was…
Of all the artists that emerged from the freak folk/New Weird America boom of the early noughties, Colorado-born 
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The second album of collaboration between former journalist and current label owner Eric Brace and talented wandering guitarist Thomm Jutz, Circle and Square is a comforting mix of harmonies and carefully constructed acoustic tunes. The duos’ guitars are here fleshed out as required by bass, drums and piano, adding colour and sonic range where required. This is not music to challenge the listener, but to provide a tasteful and thoughtful frame for the ten songs which make up Circle and Square. Looking at the world around them, the two singers share leads and harmonies over stories of art, of neighbours, of memories, of lost friends. But the tone is also upbeat, finding the positive of creation amidst the destruction of all we once held sane around us.
Long before 
There are some notable firsts for UK singer/songwriter/guitarist Laurence Jones’ On My Own. It’s not only his debut on the blues-rocking artist’s own, recently established label (Ron Records), but the only instance in his eight title catalog recorded entirely in solo acoustic mode. It’s also his most personal statement.