The Wanting is a Rock album by Glenn Jones, originally released in 2011. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked.
About
<i>The Wanting</i> balances a homespun intimacy with instrumental guitar performances that verge on jaw-dropping. Jones' fourth album was recorded in an apartment overlooking a Boston suburb’s commuter rail line, which explains the occasional clang in the distance. <i>The Wanting</i> reveals how Jones has graduated from his American Primitive studies of the Takoma Records roster and is now exploring his own tunings and tones; it’s one of those rare situations where the student has become the master. “A Snapshot of Mom, Scotland, 1957” leads off, exuding feeling and emotion through dexterity and virtuosity. Over delicately picked arpeggios, Jones plays subtle fretboard slides while plucking out occasional harmonic overtones. He also further explores the banjo starting with “The Great Swam Way Rout,” applying his own style to the instrument. Returning to his musical roots, he closes with the nearly 18-minute epic “The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Monolith, California,” a tribute to John Fahey’s “The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California.”
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Tracklist
- 1A Snapshot of Mom, Scotland, 19578:02
- 2The Great Pacific Northwest4:54
- 3The Great Swamp Way Rout2:50
- 4Anchor Chain Blues5:21
- 5Even to Win Is to Fail4:27
- 6My Charlotte Blue Notebook5:17
- 7Menotomy River Blues1:28
- 8Of Its Own Kind7:25
- 9The Wanting4:22
- 10Twenty-Three Years in Happy Valley, or Love Among the Chickenshit2:03
- 11The Orca Grande Cement Factory At Victorville17:47
Sound DNA
- Rock
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Packaged in a gate-fold card sleeve, one side containing the disc and the other a 4-page booklet with song titles, notes, and guitar tunings.
All songs written by Glenn Jones
Recorded by Reuben Son Allston, MA, December 12-2010 - April 20, 2011
Mixed and mastered by Matthew Azvedo, M-Works, Cambridge, MA and elsewhere
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Chris CorsanoDRUMS FEATURING, DRUMS
3 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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