JONES, GLENN - BARBECUE BOB IN FISHTOWN

LP (12"/10" Album)

Label: STRANGE ATTRACT

Release date: 08/09/2009

Barcode: 0789856305612

Catalog no.: SAAHLP0000056

Stock level: IN STOCK

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Item ID: 331606

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Limited edition 180 grams vinyl + download card. Guitarist /composer Glenn Jones claims a lengthy and rich relationship to what his longtime friend John Fahey so famously dubbed "American Primitive Guitar". Aside from being seduced by punk in its latter-70s heyday and brandishing the electric for a large portion of his career (including 20 years as a founding member of post-rock instrumentalists Cul de Sac), it was the acoustic steel-string and the seemingly multi-directional genres born from Faheys homespun Takoma imprint that informed much of Jones early musical vision. Barbecue Bob in Fishtown is Jones latest, a disarmingly elegiac foray into wider and deeper streams of ever-chiming steel string. Barbecue Bob in Fishtown explores the possibilities of classical composition within American folk forms and solo instrumentation. Its precisely this stylistic melding which sets Jones apart from his modern-day acoustic underground brethren. Jones is able to discover and project wide-screened cinema from just 6 & 12 strings, coaxing vivid panoramic images from his sparkling fingerstyle playing. Experimentations with tuning and various capos of his own invention are wed with delicately expressive playing and a remarkable compositional prowess. Barbecue Bob in Fishtown also finds Jones performing solo on 5-string banjo for the first time on record, exhuming the spirit of COB and as seen through a Dock Boggs-esque prism.

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