"Glenn Jones' nigh-on-half-century spent steeping himself in acoustic guitar lore gleams as bright as dimes at the bottom of a fountain pool on a sunny day, only much richer." - Bill Meyer, Signal To Noise
Guitarist/composer Glenn Jones claims a lengthy, rich relationship to what his longtime friend John Fahey so famously dubbed "American Primitive Guitar." Barbeque Bob In Fishtown explores the possibilities of classical composition within American folk forms and solo instrumentation. Jones is able to discover and project wide-screened cinema from six and 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.
"The best guitarist you've never heard." - Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe
Track Listing
Barbecue Bob in Fishtown
Keep it a Hundred Years
For Wendy, In Her Girlish Days
Redwood Ramble Misremembered
Snowdrops (for Robert Walser)
Dead Reckoning
A Lark in Earnest
1337 Shattuck Avenue, Apartment D
A Geranium for Mano-a-Mano