The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel

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The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel
Greatest hits album by
Released10 August 2001 (2001-08-10)
Genre
Length2:01:21
LabelColumbia/Sony
Tommy Emmanuel chronology
Only
(2000)
The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel
(2001)
Endless Road
(2004)

The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel is a greatest hits double album by Australian guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel, which was released in August 2001. It peaked at number 22 on the ARIA Albums Chart and number 3 on the component, ARIA Australasian Artists Albums chart.[2] One CD has Emmanuel using electric guitar, while on the other he used acoustic guitar.[3]

Track listing[edit]

CD1 (Electric)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Hold Me Back"Tommy Emmanuel, Rick Neigher3:29
2."The Journey"Emmanuel, David Hirschfelder4:59
3."Fear of Rain"Emmanuel, Peter Bowman4:55
4."Who Dares Wins"Emmanuel5:52
5."Big Brother"Emmanuel, Bowman4:00
6."Stevie's Blues"Emmanuel4:23
7."Hearts Grow Fonder"Emmanuel4:10
8."Guitar Boogie"Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith3:30
9."When You Come Home"Emmanuel4:32
10."Determination"Emmanuel4:48
11."Don't Argue"Emmanuel, Bowman3:59
12."From the Hip"Emmanuel4:34
13."Tailin' the Invisible Man"Emmanuel, James Roche5:04
14."The Rise and Fall of Flingle Bunt"Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch3:48
CD2 (Acoustic)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Amanda's Room"Emmanuel, Randy Goodrum4:31
2."Classical Gas"Mason Williams5:05
3."Hellos and Goodbyes"Emmanuel, Virgil Donati4:36
4."Countrywide"Emmanuel2:54
5."Up from Down Under"Emmanuel, Alan Mansfield5:27
6."Villa de Martin"Emmanuel, Goodrum4:25
7."Fiesta"Emmanuel4:23
8."Midnight Drive"Emmanuel, Goodrum4:09
9."Since We Met"Emmanuel4:00
10."Mountain of Truth"Emmanuel, Roger Mason4:50
11."Initiation"Emmanuel4:19
12."Last Time I Saw You"Emmanuel, Goodrum4:25
13."Blue Moon"Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers2:37
14."Change for Good"Emmanuel, Goodrum3:57

Charts[edit]

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 22

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  2. ^ unknown (24 September 2001). "Week Commencing ~ 24th September 2001 ~ Issue #604" (PDF). The ARIA Report (604). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA): 6, 9, 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2002. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  3. ^ unknown (27 August 2001). "Week Commencing ~ 27th August 2001 ~ Issue #600" (PDF). The ARIA Report (600). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA): 2, 5, 9, 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2002. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Tommy Emmanuel – The Very Best of Tommy Emmanuel". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 October 2019.