Jones, Glenn: Wanting (Vinyl LP)
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The Wanting, Glenn Jones' first album for Thrill Jockey, was recorded in a fourth floor apartment on Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, overlooking the commuter train line. If you listen carefully to the record, you can occasionally hear trains going by in the background. Simply put, the Wanting is a collection of original compositions for solo acoustic steel string guitar, six string, 10 string and bottleneck, and 5 string open back banjo. Glenn Jones, a 30+ year devotee of the so called American Primitive school of acoustic steel string guitarists, has been playing guitar since the age of 14. He formed Boston psych-rock band, Cul-de-Sac, in 1989 and led it on it's 20 year journey to nowhere, leaving nine albums in it's wake, including collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and Can's Damo Suzuki. A Snapshot of Mom Scotland 1957, The Great Pacific Northwest, The Great Swamp Way Rout, Anchor Chain Blues (2), Even to Win Is to Fail (2), My Charlotte Blue Notebook, Menotomy River Blues, Of It's Own Kind, The Wanting, Twenty-Three Years in Happy Valley or Love Among the Chickenshit, The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville
The Wanting, Glenn Jones' first album for Thrill Jockey, was recorded in a fourth floor apartment on Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, overlooking the commuter train line. If you listen carefully to the record, you can occasionally hear trains going by in the background. Simply put, the Wanting is a collection of original compositions for solo acoustic steel string guitar, six string, 10 string and bottleneck, and 5 string open back banjo. Glenn Jones, a 30+ year devotee of the so called American Primitive school of acoustic steel string guitarists, has been playing guitar since the age of 14. He formed Boston psych-rock band, Cul-de-Sac, in 1989 and led it on it's 20 year journey to nowhere, leaving nine albums in it's wake, including collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and Can's Damo Suzuki. A Snapshot of Mom Scotland 1957, The Great Pacific Northwest, The Great Swamp Way Rout, Anchor Chain Blues (2), Even to Win Is to Fail (2), My Charlotte Blue Notebook, Menotomy River Blues, Of It's Own Kind, The Wanting, Twenty-Three Years in Happy Valley or Love Among the Chickenshit, The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville