Triumph’s Rik Emmett revealed that he was lately hospitalized with a nasty case of meals poisoning.
Fortunately, the guitarist was capable of combat the great combat and absolutely get well.
“I can cross off ‘Ambulance Trip to Emergency’ from my bucket record,” Emmet revealed in a Fb publish Thursday afternoon. “Who knew that meals poisoning might begin with vertigo so unhealthy one imagines they’re having a stroke?”
After spending eight hours within the emergency room tethered to a cell IV dolly – by no means surrendering, in fact – Emmett says the expertise was humbling: “You may achieve every kind of perspective for humility and gratitude, as you witness people having far, far worse days than your self.”
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Fortunately, Emmett reviews that he was capable of get well in time to get residence for a sizzling cup of late evening tea. Which is sweet as a result of he is acquired a brand new album named Ten Telecaster Tales to advertise.
The all-instrumental Ten Telecaster Tales might be launched on March 1. It’s at present being provided in a particularly restricted version of 200 copies, and comes inside a guide that features what’s described as “probably the most complete try at liner notes within the historical past of electrical instrumental fingerstyle guitar albums.”
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He may also carry out two sold-out reveals on the Redwood Theatre in Toronto on April tenth and eleventh. The live performance will characteristic a whole efficiency of the Ten Telecaster Tales album, after which he might be joined by his longtime collaborator Dave Dunlop “for some outdated Troubs duo favorites and Triumph tunes.”
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