ARTiST : Glenn Jones
ALBUM : Against Which The Sea Continually Beats
LABEL : Strange Attractors
GENRE : Folk
RELEASE : 2007-03-19
STREET : 2007-03-13
ENCODER : LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
QUALiTY : 181kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 78.75 MB
PLAYTiME : 00:59:21
+ TRACK LiSTiNG +
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
1. Island 1 1:42
2. David And The Phoenix 8:23
3. Little Dog's Day 3:50
4. Cady 5:19
5. Richard Nixon Orchestra 2:33
6. Freedom Raga 11:04
7. Against My Ruin 2:30
8. The Teething Necklace (For John Fahey) 10:34
9. Heartbreak Hill 5:56
10. Bill Muller On The Erie Lackawanna 5:33
11. Island 2 1:57
59:21
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Since 1989, Glenn Jones has led Boston's "avant-garage" instrumental rock band
Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date. A
thirty+-year devotee of the so-called "Takoma school," Jones has written
extensively on two of the steel-string guitar's leading lights: John Fahey, with
whom he was friends for nearly twenty-five years, and Robbie Basho. In 2004,
Jones stepped out of the long shadow cast by Takoma's guitar visionaries and
offered his own "new possibility"--This Is the Wind That Blows It Out, an
impeccable album of acoustic 6 & 12-string beauty released to rave review.
Against Which the Sea Continually Beats, Jones's second album, is an
indisputable triumph of acoustic guitar composition, a reverential and
innovative melding of sound and form. Recorded in Martha's Vineyard, the
peaceful, seafaring setting of the island community inspired the recording
sessions, lending an air of tranquility that served to coax impeccable
performances from Glenn Jones. The eleven tunes on Against Which the Sea
Continually Beats travel from Delta to Appalachia, from classical to a cinematic
sort of folk sound in a language that is purely imbued in the artist's own
dialect. Graceful and subtle, resonating with confidence and power, Against
Which the Sea Continually Beats is a masterpiece of "guitar soli" by a truly
singular talent.
Enjoy!