WRBC presents guitarist Glenn Jones
October 3rd, 2009 • Press Release
Described by The Boston Globe as “the best guitarist you never heard of,” Glenn Jones of Cambridge, Mass. plays a concert of acoustic music at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in the Ronj at Ross House on Frye St. Opening for Jones will be Micah Blue Smaldone of Portland. Admission is free. For more information, please contact 207-777-7532 or dray@bates.edu
A 30-plus-year devotee of the so-called “Takoma School,” Glenn Jones has led Boston’s “avant-garage” instrumental rock band, Cul de Sac since 1989. With Cul de Sac, Jones has recorded nine albums, including a soundtrack for cult-director Roger Corman, and collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki.
Jones has written extensively on the steel-string guitar’s leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly 25 years, and Robbie Basho, who befriended Jones during the five years before his death in 1986. He’s toured with Peter Lang, and with some of the best of the new breed of solo guitar upstarts: Harris Newman, Sean Smith, and James Blackshaw, among others.
Jones’ second solo album, Against Which the Sea Continually Beats, was issued by Strange Attractors in March 2007.
Micah Blue Smaldone is a Portland-based musician, member of l bands such as The Pinkerton Thugs and Blood on Blood. He has been noted for playing a wide range of musical styles including punk, hardcore, folk, ragtime, and blues.