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Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

  The Wanting, Glenn Jones' first album for Thrill Jockey, was recorded in a
  fourth floor apartment on Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts, a
  suburb of Boston, overlooking the commuter train line. If you listen carefully
  to the record, you can occasionally hear trains going by in the background.
  Simply put, The Wanting is a collection of original compositions for solo
  acoustic steel string guitar, six-string, 10-string and bottleneck, and
  5-string open-back banjo. Glenn Jones, a 30+ year devotee of the so-called
  ''American Primitive'' school of acoustic steel string guitarists, has been
  playing guitar since the age of 14. He formed Boston psych-rock band, Cul de
  Sac, in 1989 and led it on its 20 year journey to nowhere, leaving nine albums
  in its wake, including collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and Can's Damo
  Suzuki.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. A Snapshot of Mom, Scotland, 1957                                 ( 8:04)
  02. The Great Pacific Northwest                                       ( 4:58)
  03. The Great Swamp Way Rout                                          ( 2:52)
  04. Anchor Chain Blues                                                ( 5:23)
  05. Even To Win Is To Fail                                            ( 4:29)
  06. My Charlotte Blue Notebook                                        ( 5:19)
  07. Menotomy River Blues                                              ( 1:30)
  08. Of Its Own Kind                                                   ( 7:27)
  09. The Wanting                                                       ( 4:26)
  10. Twenty-Three Years In Happy Valley, Or Love Among The Chickenshit ( 2:07)
  11. The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville                     (17:47)