Emmett Drueding is a Philadelphia-based guitarist, singer and songwriter with an admiration for Chet Atkins, The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Dave Van Ronk and the greats of jazz and country blues. Drueding has spent years developing his distinctive guitar-centric sound that draws fluidly on these influences and others. In 2015, Drueding released his first solo EP, titled Strange Bruise. In 2019 he released his first full-length album, Tightrope Walker, with the help of longtime producer Ray Bailey and backed by his band consisting of a variety of notable local musicians. On Drueding’s writing and performing style, indie music blog B-Sides and Badlands noted, “He might be playing a character . . . but his conviction is as ripe as grapes on a vine ready for harvest.”