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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Tuesday 21st February, 2012 |
| N | 8:00pm |
An evening with American primitive guitarist Glenn Jones. Jones will perform compositions from his acclaimed string of solo guitar records and will give a talk on the history of the 'Takoma School' of American music taking in the work he's done on the boxset 'Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You'. Described by The WIRE as "One of the great musical stories of the 20th Century", the boxset covers the early years of Jones' late friend John Fahey.
GLENN JONES
There is perhaps no better living proponent of the so-called 'American Primitive' or 'Takoma School' than Glenn Jones. Operating for 20+ years as the guitarist for legendary Boston psych band Cul De Sac (including collaborations with Damo Suzuki and John Fahey), Glenn has gone on to release four solo albums of fingerpicked guitar and banjo, the latest of which 'The Wanting' includes an extended collaboration with drummer Chris Corsano.
Jones is also setting his own routes across the map of American music, indebted to the fountainhead but capturing his own unique feeling and thereby extending the tradition established by Fahey, Robbie Basho and other players such as Max Ochs, Harry Taussig, Fred Gerlach and Dick Rosmini.
"This is music that makes its own space, creates its own landscape, and then invites you in. It may be intricate, it may be experimental, but it is never unapproachable." - Pop Matters
“… an incredibly adept fingerstyle guitarist whose technique always remains in service of the song… His vigorous leaps are daring but never reckless, and nearly always sublime.” – Utne Reader
YOUR PAST COMES BACK TO HAUNT YOU
As part of this evening Glenn will be talking about his work on 'Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You' - the long-awaited box set of the earliest recordings by John Fahey and the first book ever written about him.
The WIRE magazine's #1 archival release of 2011: "One of the great musical stories of the 20th Century"
"This set is not just for Fahey zealots. It's for anyone interested in the story of American music, from its Appalachian string bands and mean-moaning Delta blues singers to the hymns sung from its church pews and the country-rock anthems soon enough crafted by its hippies... A must-have collection of lore, music, and history, it's a unified, brilliant, and often very challenging archive." - Grayson Currin, Pitchfork
