Marco’s Secret Songbook (TBA)

• “Hope” and “Suspension Bridge” are pre-release, sneak previews. They are still works-in-progress, and not final mixes. It’s just been a long process for ‘Marco’s Secret Songbook’ to reach the public, so we didn’t want you to think that it wasn’t happening. Enjoy.

  Track Listing

  

  Marco’s Secret Songbook

  Stream Pre-Release Tracks Here
  1. Come Home
  2. Father’s Pocket Watch
  3. Four Square [pre-release]
  4. Begin The Dance
  5. A Walk In The Park [pre-release]
  6. Already Gone
  7. No Rest For The Wicked
  8. The Land of Boogie Woogie
  9. Suspension Bridge [pre-release]
  10. Fill Your Heart
  11. Old Sweet Song
  12. Little Ditty
  13. Hope [pre-release]
  14. Between The Dreams of You and I
  15. Come Home [Reprise]

“A modern-day troubadour goes on a musical odyssey, hoping to find himself and restore his faith in love.”

Synopsis

Fashioned as a ’60’s-turning-into-’70’s ‘concept album’, Marco’s Secret Songbook is a group of songs and guitar pieces built along a storyline.

“Marco” functions as a foil for the author’s own stylistic indulgences. The lyrical themes will not surprise anyone who knows something about Emmett’s own personal 40 years in the music business.

The story takes Marco from his teenaged roots in a conservative musical Italian family, to France, where he falls in and out of love: to England, where he nearly buries himself as a jobbing musician, bottoms out, then bounces back through a Caribbean cruise ship gig, eventually coming full circle, back to his love, Genevieve, and his family – accompanied by the secret songbook that has chronicled his odyssey.

About

SUSPENSION BRIDGE
When Marco moves to London England after leaving France, he ends up playing in a pit band for a west end show. Influenced by listening to Pat Metheny, he writes this piece, which is a cross between Pete Townshend strumming, and early Pat Metheny “Heartland” stuff …

HOPE
A rough mix. A tune I wrote when my brother was diagnosed with cancer, and was hanging in and fighting …