glenn jones

Part Two of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Ben Glover, Faeland, Shooglenifty, Brona McVittie, Emma Tricca, Glenn Jones, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Rachael McShane, John Smith, Kacy & Clayton and lots more.

Taken from his latest album ‘The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar’ Glenn Jones has shared the video for The Sunken Amusement Park (our Tune of the Day).

Flag-bearing American acoustic instrumentalist Glenn Jones’s The Giant who ate Himself is another perfectly realised and recorded set of solo gems. We caught up with him to discuss the album, the heavyweight twelve-string guitar and that one audience member.

“The Giant Who Ate Himself” is a new collection from Massachusetts based acoustic instrumentalist Glenn Jones that feels very much like the final part of a trilogy that began in 2013. Treasures pop up throughout to bring a smile to the face. Another faultless and hugely enjoyable set from a master storyteller still peaking.

Watch Glenn Jones performing “The Sunken Amusement Park” from his new album “The Giant Who Ate Himself And Other New Works for 6 & 12 String Guitar”. It’s released on August 24th on Thrill Jockey Records.

The beauty of ‘An Idea in Everything’ lies in its unhurried and profoundly mundane messages. Challenging art this album may be, but it is high and beautiful and superb, unlike anything I’ve ever heard. A very impressive achievement.

The latest in our Lost in Transmission Series features new music from Lisa Knapp, Brigid Mae Power, Sam Amidon, Holy Modal Rounders, Toby Hay, David Allred, Peter Broderick and more.

Described as a musical reflection on ‘the past and the way places and people resonate in our lives’ – Fleeting is an extraordinarily beautiful album. Glenn Jones is currently on tour in the UK & Europe.

To mark the release of his new album, Fleeting, Glenn Jones heads out on a 12-date tour across the UK and Europe. Listen to “Flower Turned Inside-Out”, our Tune of the Day.

We rejoin Arborea on Day 5 of their guest tour blog and the night of the Robbie Basho tribute concert also feat. Glenn Jones, Daniel Bachman and Ryley Walker.

We rejoin Arborea on Day 4 of their guest tour blog via Pittsburgh, Harrisburg & Germantown – taking in sound healing, a live show and rising nerves over the Robbie Basho tribute concert.

On August 23rd at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia there is a very special concert taking place featuring artists that have all featured on FRUK: Daniel Bachman, Glenn Jones, Arborea, and Ryley Walker.

Glenn Jones kicks off his European tour this month and he’ll be making a number of UK appearances including London’s Cafe OTO on 12th Nov for which we have a pair of tickets to giveaway.

Glenn Jones, one of the finest modern exponents of American Primitivism, embarks on a UK / European Tour this November 2013. Full tour dates & video here.

Watch the latest new video from Glenn Jones new album: Across the Tappan Zee is performed with Laura Baird (sister of Meg Baird) on banjo, interweaving her plaintive melodies with Glenn’s gentle picking.

we are very pleased to be offering this exclusive video premiere of Glenn Jones performing Bergen County Farewell which is taken from his forthcoming album My Garden State which is released on Thrill Jockey in May.

Robbie Basho’s ‘Twilight Peaks’ was originally released on cassette tape in 1984. It has now been picked up and repackaged by a Robbie Basho fan and friend; Glenn Jones and released through Smeraldina-Rima.