Jazz Articles about Buddy Emmons

About Buddy Emmons

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Album Review

Buddy Emmons with Lenny Breau: Minors Aloud

Read "Minors Aloud" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 2, 2005

Art of Life recently reissued Canadian ex-pat Lenny Breau's last album before his untimely death in '84, Swingin' on a Seven-String, bringing the special relationship that Breau shared with Nashville pedal steel legend Buddy Emmons to the fore again. Breau, a guitarist who may not have reached the public acclaim he deserved, had a remarkable ability to self-accompany in a way that made him sound like two and sometimes three players at once, and he influenced a wide range of ...

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Album Review

Lenny Breau: Swingin' on a Seven-String

Read "Swingin' on a Seven-String" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 25, 2005

While guitarist Lenny Breau's innovations may not seem so significant now, he was like a bolt of lightning when he emerged in the '70s out of Manitoba, Canada. A true self-accompanist who integrated virtuosic skills in jazz, country, and flamenco into an unmistakable voice, Breau made his guitar sound like an ensemble. Legend has it that Chet Atkins was walking down the hall of a Nashville studio and, hearing music coming out of one of the rooms, said to himself, ...