Below you can watch the video for Glenn Jones' "Of Its Own Kind," from his latest album, The Wanting, which is out now on Thrill Jockey. He plays Tuesday night at Zebulon with P.G. Six.
NPR's Weekend Edition profiled Jones and spoke with him about his new album earlier this month. Here's an excerpt:
There's a restless quality to Glenn Jones' music that starts with the guitarist himself. Jones doesn't just write songs; he makes up a new way of tuning the guitar for each one.
"For me, inventing a new tuning goes with inventing a new song," Jones says. "The song is a way to navigate a tuning that I'm not yet familiar with. It kind of forces me to explore or dig into a tuning in ways that are atypical — kind of forces me to think."
Jones has long been a fan of music that can make you think. While his friends in high school were listening to Led Zeppelin, Jones was listening to the free jazz of Sun Ra and corresponding with the avant-garde composer and inventor Harry Partch. But the musician who struck an emotional chord with Jones was guitarist John Fahey. Jones heard Fahey's music for the first time at college.
