This Is the Wind That Blows It Out

No, not the R&B singer, but rather the founding guitarist/contraption player of Cul de Sac, and he's just recorded his debut solo album. With "This Is the Wind That Blows It Out - Solos For 6 & 12 String Guitar," Glenn Jones has created a masterful, utterly sublime record of gorgeous acoustic compositions. Most folks know his unique blend of surf, Middle Eastern, Americana, and acid guitar innovations from Cul de Sac, but few people know that Mr. Jones played the acoustic guitar exclusively for many years. From the time his father bought him his first axe at age 14, Jones never even picked up an electric guitar until the wave of punk rock broke over his consciousness at the ripe age of 29. Although seduced by electricity, Jones never fully escaped his roots. (Jones is a scholar of sorts on the subject of the steel string tradition, having written notes found in the wave of Robbie Basho and John Fahey reissues on Fantasy [not to mention his great essay on Fahey that accompanies his final album, "Red Cross"]). Upon Fahey's passing in 2001, Jones went back to the acoustic guitar with renewed earnest, hints of which can be found all over Cul de Sac's 2003 masterpiece "Death of the Sun" and their soundtrack album, "The Strangler's Wife," and appears in earnest on "This is the Wind..."