American Primitive Guitar: Glenn Jones w/ Vic Rawlings

"The best guitarist you never heard of." –The Boston Globe

Glenn Jones is an instrumentalist of unparalleled skill and creativity. A master of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by his friend and mentor, John Fahey, whose traditional fingerpicking techniques and wide-ranging influences were used to create modern original compositions. Jones, who led the post-rock ensemble Cul de Sac, brings his own made-up tunings, the use of custom-crafted partial capos, and a highly skilled picking style on both banjo and guitar, to create personal compositions that are lyrical, emotive and elegant. What sets him apart from the myriad guitarists playing today is his ability to tell stories with the guitar and banjo, escaping the known to navigate new and unfamiliar landscapes. “But it’s my hope,” he says, “that what you hear are not the tunings and partial capos and all that, but the music — the…