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MojoSep 27, 2011Like all the best dreams. [Oct 2011, p.100]
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Sep 22, 2011Jones furthers the exploratory path he's committed himself to, with tranquil yet compelling acoustic steel-string guitar compositions built from thoughtful open tunings ("Of Its Own Kind"), expressive bottleneck guitar ("Even to Win Is to Fail"), and even banjo ("The Great Swamp Way Rout").
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Sep 22, 2011If Jones' performances and compositions over the years have touched on themes of yearning and the past, with a soft echo into the present day, then it stand all the more to reason why the album title and the cover art--a guitar-playing cat, looking at the moon--should sum up the feeling of The Wanting so well.
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Sep 22, 2011The Wanting boasts both technical excellence and a cosy, welcoming atmosphere. A simple combination, perhaps, but a hugely rewarding one.
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Sep 22, 2011This is music that makes its own space, creates its own landscape, and then invites you in.
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Sep 22, 2011Perhaps whatever he's wishing for or doesn't have is something too personal or boring to tell.
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Nov 14, 2011He never gets beyond either producing a meditative song or joyful song. The difference between this album from all the millions of other acoustic albums out there? Not much.
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UncutSep 23, 2011A continuation of a grand tradition rather than a feeble descendant, Jones' custom tunings strike sourly sweet notes, occasionally--as on the title track--touching on raga modes. [Oct 2011, p.89]