At the end of a perfect summer Saturday in Barnegat Light, golden hour sunlight poured into the Daymark as the Island’s favorite solo guitarist, Greg Warren, filled the room with instrumental music as fluid as the sparkling bay just outside.
SMOOTH SOUNDS: The music is constant as Greg Warren passionately plays to the dinner crowd at Daymark every Saturday evening, effortlessly flowing from song to song. (Photos by Jack Reynolds)
When Warren plays, songs aren’t songs as you know them; they’re deconstructed, built on a foundation of looped chords with recognizable melodies layered on top and made anew. One morphs smoothly into the next, with bits and pieces of familiar choruses and riffs breaking through waves of soothing improvised guitar.
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