{"id":2681,"date":"2010-10-25T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/acousticsnapshots\/?p=9"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:36:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:36:03","slug":"video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/friends\/tommyemmanuelinterviews\/video-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Emmanuel &#8211; Part 1 &#8211; Chet Atkins &amp; Dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tommy Emmanuel - Part 1 - Chet Atkins &amp; Dads\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wzQ6Vyl7kZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nTG Matt: I watched you play this song and I thought about the original song.<br \/>\nTommy Emannuel: Chet Atkins?<br \/>\nTG Matt: Chet Atkins.<br \/>\nTommy Emannuel: Yeah. Well let me tell you the story.<br \/>\nTG Matt: Yeah, I\u2019d love to.<br \/>\nTommy Emannuel: Before Chet died, I got a call from his doctor and his doctor just said to me, \u201cYou should come now because he won\u2019t be here next week. He\u2019ll be gone.\u201d So I jumped on a plane from England and I went straight to his house.<br \/>\nIn my suitcase was a photograph of my father that my mother had given me. And Chet and I had this bond. Because when he was a kid, his father was very distant with him and didn\u2019t show him much respect as a musician when he was growing up because he considered him like a hillbilly, right? Because he didn\u2019t go and study classical. Although he did later in life, right?<br \/>\nAnd so him and his dad were reunited towards the end of his dad\u2019s life, but for most of his younger life, him and his dad were very much estranged. He told me once, he said the thing I remember the most was when my mother and father separated and my father left, that he came to the gate and he said, \u201cWell, kids, goodbye.\u201d And he walked down the road whistling. That\u2019s what Chet remembered. Yeah.<br \/>\nSo we had that. And my father was kind of abusive and distant with all of us, too. And I remembered trying so hard to get close to him and you just couldn\u2019t. He died just before my 11th birthday and I never really had anything to grieve about.<br \/>\nBut it wasn\u2019t until my first daughter was born that I had this kind of revelation. I walked outside the hospital and I looked up in the sky. And I grabbed my hands and I grabbed hold of a bunch of imaginary strings holding the balloons full of the memories of my dad. And I said, \u201cI\u2019m letting you go now because I\u2019m a dad.\u201d<br \/>\nTG Matt: Wow.<br \/>\nTommy Emannuel: Yeah. And it was a wonderful moment for me because I felt all the time that I was searching for more about him and how could I learn about him and what was he really like? I didn\u2019t remember. So I just let it all go.<br \/>\nAnd so anyway, I told Chet this and he told me his story. Then I showed him a photo of my dad, and he said, \u201cLook at this.\u201d And he opened a drawer and took out a photo of his dad. It was the same hat on the same angle.<br \/>\nTG Matt: Oh, wow.<br \/>\nTommy Emannuel: Yeah. And I said to him, \u201cThere\u2019s the sign. We still can\u2019t say goodbye.\u201d The hat and trying my daddy\u2019s hat on. And he looked me right in the eye and he said, \u201cYou keep singing that song.\u201d And I said, \u201cOh, I wouldn\u2019t do that. That\u2019s precious to you.\u201d And he said, \u201cPeople need to hear this song. It\u2019s important. I want you to sing it.\u201d So I said, \u201cOK, I will.\u201d<br \/>\nSo that\u2019s the only reason I do it because other than that, it would be too close to copying what he did. But at the same time, I only look at it as this. I play Chet Atkins\u2019s music and Merle Travis\u2019s songs to keep that music alive.<br \/>\nTG Matt: I\u2019ve discovered it as a result, for example.<br \/>\nTommy Emannuel: Exactly. And the younger generation have discovered because they\u2019re into me, that they\u2019re like where is this coming from? Let\u2019s follow the trail. 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