Tommy Emmanuel

In Praise of Lenny Breau (23 music items)

" Chet Akins said, "There's a guy I want you to meet; he's the greatest guitar player on the planet right now," and that's when he introduced me to Lenny Breau." “We went upstairs and I could hear a guitar playing. We opened the door and there was Lenny Breau. Harmonically, his music was more sophisticated than anything I’d ever heard. He was doing stuff nobody had done yet.” "When we played something fast, the tempos were really fast—Chet was all over it like you wouldn't believe! Len"