At a touch, this 2014 McConnell bursts into life. We’ve come to expect Jordan’s guitars to have such rich tonality, but every time another one comes our way it’s like hearing music for the first time. With an understated elegance of style, this SJ marries Brazilian Rosewood, Moonspruce, Ebony, Mahogany, and Stainless Steel frets into an instrument which can rumble and roll, whisper and shout, with equal ease. Everyone wants a guitar which works well for flatpicking and fingerstyle, but such a guitar is rather hard to come by in our experience. This McConnell, however, might have won the lottery for a balanced, dynamic voice which does just that, performing flawlessly for both approaches. Fingerstyle arrangements in altered tunings are rich and articulate, and the same tune will remain articulate and balanced under a flatpick! The basses are particularly clear and present, and blend beautifully with the other registers to form a voice with pianistic separation of notes, no matter where on the fretboard you happen to be playing.
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