Search - Glenn Jones :: Against Which the Sea Continually Beats

"Sensitivity and power that instantly communicates." -- BRAINWASHED "A lean and lively hound among the sheep." -- Bill Meyer, DUSTED "His gorgeous, luminous settings are scored across a series of open tunings, which he threads with beautiful rolling melodies, his slide work sounding like the flutter of tiny metal butterflies." -- David Keenan, THE WIRE Since 1989, Glenn Jones has led Boston's "avant-garage" instrumental rock band Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date. A thirty+-year devotee of the so-called "Takoma school," Jones has written extensively on two of the steel-string guitar's leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly twenty-five years, and Robbie Basho. In 2004, Jones stepped out of the long shadow cast by Takoma's guitar visionaries and offered his own "new possibility"--This Is the Wind That Blows It Out, an impeccable album of acoustic 6 & 12-string beauty released to rave review. Against Which the Sea Continually Beats, Jones's second album, is an indisputable triumph of acoustic guitar composition, a reverential and innovative melding of sound and form. Recorded in Martha's Vineyard, the peaceful, seafaring setting of the island community inspired the recording sessions, lending an air of tranquility that served to coax impeccable performances from Glenn Jones. The eleven tunes on Against Which the Sea Continually Beats travel from Delta to Appalachia, from classical to a cinematic sort of folk sound in a language that is purely imbued in the artist's own dialect. Graceful and subtle, resonating with confidence and power, Against Which the Sea Continually Beats is a masterpiece of "guitar soli" by a truly singular talent.