Triumph’s Rik Emmett revealed that he was not too long ago hospitalized with a nasty case of meals poisoning.
Fortunately, the guitarist was capable of struggle the great struggle and totally get well.
“I can cross off ‘Ambulance Experience to Emergency’ from my bucket record,” Emmet revealed in a Fb put up 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 of us 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 night time tea. Which is sweet as a result of he is received a brand new album named Ten Telecaster Tales to advertise.
The all-instrumental Ten Telecaster Tales will probably be launched on March 1. It’s presently being provided in a particularly restricted version of 200 copies, and comes inside a ebook 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 can even carry out two sold-out reveals on the Redwood Theatre in Toronto on April tenth and eleventh. The live performance will function an entire efficiency of the Ten Telecaster Tales album, after which he will probably be joined by his longtime collaborator Dave Dunlop “for some previous Troubs duo favorites and Triumph tunes.”
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