AUTUMN RECORDS’ Greg Davis & TURN music present
OUTER SOUNDS
GLENN JONES & LIAM GRANT
7PM DOORS, 7:30PM MUSIC | $10 DONATION
ABOUT GLENN JONES
"The best guitarist you never heard of." –The Boston Globe
Glenn Jones began playing guitar when he was 14 (after discovering Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold as Love) and is today one the leading proponents of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by his friend and mentor, John Fahey.
Glenn turned away from the guitar’s standard E A D G B E tuning some 40 years ago and began creating his own tunings (he estimates he’s invented more than a hundred). These and his use of custom-crafted two-, three- and four-string partial capos are Jones’ way of escaping the known, thus allowing for the creation of new pieces of music, each of which requires its own chord shapes, fingerings, scales—and unique challenges: they are his way of navigating new and unfamiliar landscapes. “It’s my hope,” he says, “that what listeners hear is not all the technical stuff that goes into the creation of my pieces – the weird tunings and partial capos and all that—but the music, the feeling within these pieces.” To date, Jones has issued seven highly lauded full-length albums, many of which have made critics' year-end "best of" lists (in such places as MOJO, Uncut, The Wire and many others). His most recent albums are Vade Mecum (2022), The Giant Who Ate Himself (2018), Waterworks (2017) and An Idea in Everything (2017), the latter a collaboration with drummer Chris Corsano and monologist David Greenberger.
links:
https://glennjones.bandcamp.com/album/vade-mecum
https://thrilljockey.com/artists/glenn-jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPXk1ElmzGs
ABOUT LIAM GRANT
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. Conjuring worlds both unknown and familiar Grant evokes the sounds of the landscape in which he was raised. Personal instrumental memoirs and ruminations on the banks of the Merrimack River. Amoskeag. And the place where the waters flow around it. Salmon tails up the falls and black pearls from the river. The exodus to Stratton-Eustis and the Last Night on the Dead River before the great flood.
The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue: Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
"Although only 23 years old, Liam’s become a leading force in a much needed third wave revival of American Primitive music. Despite his age, Liam’s the very definition of 'an old soul' and while he draws on a wide variety of contemporary influences, he also channels a comprehensive history of the blues as well as a deeper energy that informs both his playing and songwriting." -- Rob Vaughn, Portland, Oregon – July 2023
Links:
https://carbon-records.bandcamp.com/album/amoskeag
https://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/amoskeag/