Marco’s Secret Songbook

Track Listing

1. Come Home
2. Chapter 1:  How the Songbook Began
3. Father’s Pocket Watch
4. Chapter 2:  To France, and Genevieve
5. Four Square
6. Chapter 3:  Romance Blossoms
7. Begin The Dance
8. Chapter 4:  Gentle Summer
9. A Walk In The Park
10. Chapter 5:  Betrayal
11. Already Gone
12. Chapter 6:  Black & Blue
13. No Rest For The Wicked
14. Chapter 7:   Tounge in Cheek
15. The Land of Boogie Woogie
16. Chapter 8:  New Connections
17. Suspension Bridge
18. Chapter 9:  Cruising & Dreaming
19. Fill Your Heart
20. Chapter 10:  Chasing Memories
21. Old Sweet Song
22. Chapter 11:  Surrendering Pride
23. Little Ditty
24. Chapter 12:  Faith, Hope, and Love
25. Hope
26. Chapter 13:  Returning to France
27. Chapter 14:  The Circle is Complete
28. Between The Dreams of You and I
29. Chapter 15:  Epilogue
30. 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.

More about Marco with complete story, lyrics, and liner notes