“I saw blood everywhere. But I kept going because I knew there were 12 guys down there I wanted to meet.” Tommy Emmanuel says a fatal gang fight triggered a lockdown before his gig at San Quentin Prison. He went on anyway

“I saw blood everywhere. But I kept going because I knew there were 12 guys down there I wanted to meet.” Tommy Emmanuel says a fatal gang fight triggered a lockdown before his gig at San Quentin Prison. He went on anyway

Australian percussive acoustic-guitar wizard Tommy Emmanuel has played some huge gigs in his life. But few can have been more impactful than the time he and Martin Taylor entertained inmates at a high-security prison.Emmanuel has headlined Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium and Paris’ Olympia, where the Beatles enjoyed a historic 18-day residency in 1964. He has even upstaged Les Paul on his own turf — though he later lived to regret it. But in…