Tommy Emmanuel - Saltwater

Tommy Emmanuel playing Saltwater at the guitar workshop in Rietberg / Germany 2006.

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• Tommy
• Emmanuel
• Saltwater
• guitar

[mara235]

This is lovely - did he write this song?

[virolac31]

I believe it's originally a Julian Lennon song

[ZebZeppelin]

most people that play guitarists are known for their riffs, not particularly their skills, i mean given, slash buckethead, jimmy page, john paul jones, angus young and slash have come up with some of the greatest riffs we know today, but Tommy emanuel has been playing for 47 YEARS thats a longass fucking time. correct me if im wrong, its either 47 or 37, but, either way, he has that much practice under his belt, and, even stevie ray vaugh, or eric clapton, hell even van halen cant compare 2 TE

[garfinorbit]

an absolute killer stretch ! :D i did a cover of this song too. 

[dr05guitar]

wow this is amazing, tommy's music always so pleasing

[QueenBeatlesWings]

@bigdood yes, Laurence Juber has a similar style, but he also writes his own music and has released numerous instruction DVDs. he's an amazing fingerstyle guitarist who played for Paul McCartney in Paul's band Wings. He can do even more with a guitar, acoustic or electric

[QueenBeatlesWings]

@mara235 no, it's by Julian Lennon. on Julian's facebook page he commented that Tommy's version is so far "the best cover" he's heard. Julian wrote this and sings it, it has lyrics about the state of the world like the environment and starving kids and sadness at how nobody is doing anything.

[devilforlife123]

its as easy as shelling peas for tommy , but for us mere mortals, tough as nut.

[mytubesme]

I just love Tommy. He takes such a delicate melody and plays with such clarity and flawless style and feeling. An absolute master of the Guitar!

[MikeConnehaye]

Not only technically the best ever, but also a gate to ... he brings it to us.

[Cardathing]

@themanicwombat same for me - it's kind of depressing because I just realized my hands are too small for this song. maybe I should try it on a 3/4 guitar.. -.-

have you figured it out yet? I would love to get some helpful ideas :-)