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Glenn Jones (Glenn Jones) - 1987

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Glenn Jones — Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey)

Vade Mecum by Glenn Jones

There is a lot to be said for consistency. For nearly 20 years, Glenn Jones has been creating solo guitar music in the tradition of Fahey and Basho at a measured but steady pace. The focus of Vade Mecum, his first release since 2018’s The Giant Who Ate Himself, is on the six-string played without a slide, apart from two banjo pieces. The tunes tend to unfold at mid-tempo and with the logic of a short story as, once more, Jones composes and performs, with seeming effortlessness, a set of memorable melodies that reward repeated listening.

The tracks that open and close the collection are the most traditional, but, typically, each is distinctive. Thus, “Forsythia” begins with deep, ominous notes and then develops a delicate melody punctuated by string bends and slows to a crawl at the end. “John Jackson of Fairfax, Virginia,” pays tribute to the great Piedmont guitarist and singer, whom Jones knew and recorded, with a jaunty blues.  

“Black & White and Gray” and “Each Crystal Pane of Glass” rely less on alternating bass and more on strings of notes and pauses. The longest of the tracks at around five-and-a-half minutes each, they amble along amiably without belaboring the point.  

The banjo pieces are brief and enhanced, in the case of “Bay Harbor Head,” by field recordings (rather like “Spokane River Falls” on 2016’s Fleeting) and, on “Ruthie’s Farewell,” the violin of the friend named in the title, whose playing is reminiscent of Jenny Scheinman’s.  

Musicians frequently rework themes throughout their careers; examples include not only Fahey and Basho but also Thelonious Monk. Some patterns are evident across Jones’s work as a whole, such as a move to shorter songs and away from the shimmering epics (often on 12-string) prominent on his first few solo guitar recordings. The through-lines include precise and complex fingering, even (or especially) on the slower songs (e.g., “Kathy Maltese” on the present record), and the aforementioned ear for melody.  

Other guitarists in the genre who debuted in this century have often, like Fahey, sought to transcend or expand the fraught notion of “American Primitive” by going electric, expanding to a full band, incorporating noise, adding vocals, and so on, often quite successfully (e.g., Daniel Bachman, C. Joynes, Sarah Louise Henson). Jones has, instead, leaned into the genre, having perhaps sated his desire for radical experimentation with his 1990s-early 2000s band Cul de Sac.  

As someone who knew Fahey and Basho as well as figures such as John Jackson, Jones spans the generations, but he wears his elder statesman status lightly. It’s not difficult to imagine him taking a left turn on a future recording, but lovers of the style that traces back to Elizabeth Cotten and John Fahey (and, of course, beyond), whatever that style should be called, would be well-served by more recordings along these lines, for consistency like this is its own form of art.  

Jim Marks

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I remember oh so well, When I first held your hand and we started to dance. I had this awesome crush on you, Hoping deep down inside that you wanted me too.

Glenn Jones - We've Only Just Begun (The Romance Is Not Over)

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Vinyl. Against Which the Sea Continually Beats is Glenn Jones' second album originally released in 2007 on CD-only by Strange Attractors Audio House. This first time vinyl issue has been re-mastered and features expanded liner notes written by Jones just for this release.

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A-T-3 135 Glenn Jones - I Am Somebody 

I've mentioned this before Godwin, the lawyer behind Godwin's law (or rule of nazi analogies), has said when you're talking about actual Nazi's or genuine fascists behaviour (as described by linguist and author Umberto Eco https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html) his rule does not apply and should not be used to excuse or apologise for actual nazi behaviour

Godwin's law does not apply when we talk about British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak doing a Neville Chamberlain and meeting up with actual Italian fascists for a chat. The fascist praised Sunak's handling of asylum seekers. As we're in the middle of the government's asylum crisis I'm assuming what she means is how the tories have dehumanised immigrants and people who are so desperate to find refuge they are, venerable to the exploitations of criminal gangs and, making dangerous crossing across the English Channel in dinghies

The telegraph has done a daily mail and come out in support of the Italian fascists

'I Am Somebody' are the words of a chant lead by Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1963. This was the middle of the American civil rights movement, the chant is a call for solidarity and defence against centuries of dehumanising African Americans in the US

The track Glenn Jones - I Am Somebody

Two decades later I Am Somebody is used as the title of an uplifting Chicesque disco track sung by Glenn Jones. The I Am Somebody chant has be translated into 1980s aspiration, at the time the African-American middle class is becoming more visible in popular culture (The Cosby Show first aired in 1984). Could you call it shoulder-pad soul? That said Glenn Jones echo's Jesse Jackson when singing 'I could be poor' - because rich or poor we are all somebody

I Am Somebody was written by Kossi Gardner who wrote for SOLAR Records including the hit Dance With You for Carrie Lucas. It was produced by Robert Wright who had worked with Hall & Oats, The Main Ingredient, Michael Wycoff, Pleasure, Keni Burke

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• glenn jones • vade mecum • bit.ly/gJ-vEmM

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Glenn Jones - This Is the Wind That Blows It Out: Solos for 6 & 12 String Guitar

2004

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The Walking Dead S6 character portraits

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As always, with the holidays approaching Dusted is winding down for the year. Whatever your feelings about Christmas (Glenn Jones here certainly has some mixed ones), whether you’re celebrating that or any other holiday or just enjoying some time off (we hope!), we thank you for your readership and hope you have a good end of the year. We’ll be back the first week of January with year-end roundups from our writers, looking back at 2022.

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Dolly Parton with the Village People during a party at Victoria Station following her concert at Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, 1979.

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