Henno Althoff
Encyclopedia
Henno Althoff is a German record producer
, recording engineer and studio
owner, best known for his association with Australia
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guitarist
Tommy Emmanuel
.
admirer, specializes in the recording of guitar music. It was at a Chet Atkins Appreciation Society convention in Nashville
in the 1990s where he met Emmanuel for the first time. After Emmanuel had moved to Europe
, Althoff played a key role in getting him started there, organizing concerts and engineering his first solo guitar album Only in his Adalt-Studio in Lippstadt in 1999. Later, Althoff produced Emmanuel's collaboration with guitarist Jim Nichols titled Chet Lag (re-issued as Happy Hour) and recorded several more of the Australian's work. Emmanuel dedicated his composition Sanitarium Shuffle to him, referring to Althoff's Lippstadt home as his sanitarium.
Apart from Emmanuel, he has worked with artists such as Jerry Donahue
, Doug Morter, Ray Jackson, Clive Bunker
, Rick Kemp
, Joscho Stephan
, Richard Smith
and Gareth Pearson among others.
Discography is partially listed at Allmusic.
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, recording engineer and studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
owner, best known for his association with Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n fingerstyle
Fingerstyle guitar
Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking ....
guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Tommy Emmanuel
Tommy Emmanuel
William Thomas "Tommy" Emmanuel AM is an Australian guitarist, best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their...
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Biography
Althoff, a long-time Chet AtkinsChet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...
admirer, specializes in the recording of guitar music. It was at a Chet Atkins Appreciation Society convention in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
in the 1990s where he met Emmanuel for the first time. After Emmanuel had moved to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Althoff played a key role in getting him started there, organizing concerts and engineering his first solo guitar album Only in his Adalt-Studio in Lippstadt in 1999. Later, Althoff produced Emmanuel's collaboration with guitarist Jim Nichols titled Chet Lag (re-issued as Happy Hour) and recorded several more of the Australian's work. Emmanuel dedicated his composition Sanitarium Shuffle to him, referring to Althoff's Lippstadt home as his sanitarium.
Apart from Emmanuel, he has worked with artists such as Jerry Donahue
Jerry Donahue
Jerry Donahue is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.-Biography:Donahue was born in New York, the son of big band...
, Doug Morter, Ray Jackson, Clive Bunker
Clive Bunker
Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....
, Rick Kemp
Rick Kemp
Rick Kemp is an English bass player, songwriter, vocalist and record producer, best known for his work with the pioneering electric folk band, Steeleye Span.-Projects:...
, Joscho Stephan
Joscho Stephan
Joscho Stephan is a German Jazz guitarist who mainly plays modern Gypsy jazz. In this style he is particularly noted for his virtuosity on the acoustic guitar....
, Richard Smith
Richard Smith (musician)
Richard Smith is an English guitarist, now residing in the USA and specializing in the fingerstyle tradition of Merle Travis, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. He is the 2001 National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion.-Biography:...
and Gareth Pearson among others.
Discography
- Tommy Emmanuel: Only (Original Works, 2000) (Engineer)
- Tommy Emmanuel, Jim Nichols: Chet Lag (Adalt Records), re-issued as Happy HourHappy Hour (Tommy Emmanuel album)Happy Hour is an album by Australian musician Tommy Emmanuel and Jim Nichols. It was originally titled Chet Lag and contains two additional tunes.-Track listing:#"Happy Hour" # "Nine Pound Hammer"...
(Original Works, 2006) (Producer, engineer) - Tommy Emmanuel: Endless RoadEndless RoadEndless Road is an album by Australian musician Tommy Emmanuel. It was originally released in Emmanuel's native Australia in 2002. It was later released in the United States in 2005 with two extra tracks....
(Favored NationsFavored NationsFavored Nations is a record label started by guitarist Steve Vai and former Guitar Center owner Ray Scherr in 1999. The first album ever released by Favored Nations was Frank Gambale's Coming to Your Senses in 2000...
, 2005) (Engineer) - Fotheringay: 2Fotheringay 2Fotheringay 2 is the second album by the group formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention in 1969, and consists of previously unreleased tracks. The band was short-lived, and this album collects those remaining performances.-Track listing:...
(Fledg'lingFledg'ling RecordsFledg'ling Records is a British independent record label founded in 1991. The label has re-released some albums previously issued by Hokey Pokey Records which was also run by the Fledg'ling founder - David Suff. David Suff having been half of the team running the Richard Thompson fanzine - "Hokey...
, 2008) (Engineer) - Gathering: Legends of Folk Rock (Hypertension, 2009) (Studio)
- Gareth Pearson: Urban Echoes Vol. 1 (CandyRat RecordsCandyRat RecordsCandyRat Records is an independent American record label and online music store located in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.-Artists:Artists signed to CandyRat include:*Andrew White*Andy McKee*Antoine Dufour*Brendan Power*Brooke Miller*Craig D'Andrea...
, 2010) (Engineer) - Joscho Stephan: Live in Concert DVD (Acoustic Music Records, 2007) (Audio mixing, mastering and encoding)
Discography is partially listed at Allmusic.