Inside the Music starts Guitar Month with a My Playlist hosted by the "guitarists' guitarist" Rik Emmett.
If you play guitar like Rik Emmett does, you’re going to get noticed. And Rik Emmett first got noticed in the mid-'70s as a founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Triumph, inducted in 2008 into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, became one of the premier touring rock acts in North America in the 1980s, with eight gold and platinum selling albums and radio hits such as “Lay it on the Line” and “Fight the Good Fight.”
Emmett left the band in 1988 and found success with his first solo recording Absolutely, with hits “Saved by Love” and Big Lie.” And he showed his sensitive side with ballads like “When a Heart Breaks.” Other recordings followed. Lots of them. He likes to mix things up: jazz and blues, rock and classica. He performed and recorded solo sometimes and sometimes with other superb Canadian guitarists, Oscar Lopez, Pavlo and follow Triumph alumnus Dave Dunlop.
And just in case you'd like to categorize him, in 2007, Emmett followed up back-to-back wins at the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards with a prog rock album Airtime. Then the next year, after two decades, he reunited with his Triumph band mates for concerts in Sweden and Oklahoma. (An album and DVD set "Live at Sweden Rock Festival" is now available.)
Maybe somewhere in Canada next time, eh guys?
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Below find Rik's Playlist picks with links to iTunes:
"For Once in My Life" Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder
"L'il Darlin' Joe Pass
"All Along the Watchtower" Jimi Hendrix
"Both Sides Now" Joni Mitchell
"Song for a winter's night" Gordon Lightfoot
"Where is Mantis Evar?" Monkey House
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