Album lore

Richard Crandell’s 2007 release In The Flower Of Our Youth, issued by Sound Advice Records, gathers eighteen instrumental pieces that dwell in the American primitive guitar tradition. The album’s eighteen tracks—among them “Diagonal,” “Shamrock,” and “Delta Triad”—unfold with a deftness that nods to folk and mbira influences, lending a distinctive resonance to Crandell’s six-string work. The playing is unadorned yet intricate, a quiet archive of fingerpicking that privileges nuance over flourish.Though modest in its contemporary reception, with just over two thousand listeners logged on Last.fm, the record preserves a particular strand of acoustic artistry from the mid-2000s. The interplay of rhythm and melody here recalls the lineage of solo guitarists who draw from both American and world folk idioms, making this a subtle but worthy artifact for those tracing the intersections of tzadik and folk guitar forms.

Album lore

Richard Crandell’s 2007 release In The Flower Of Our Youth, issued by Sound Advice Records, gathers eighteen instrumental pieces that dwell in the American primitive guitar tradition. The album’s eighteen tracks—among them “Diagonal,” “Shamrock,” and “Delta Triad”—unfold with a deftness that nods to folk and mbira influences, lending a distinctive resonance to Crandell’s six-string work. The playing is unadorned yet intricate, a quiet archive of fingerpicking that privileges nuance over flourish.Though modest in its contemporary reception, with just over two thousand listeners logged on Last.fm, the record preserves a particular strand of acoustic artistry from the mid-2000s. The interplay of rhythm and melody here recalls the lineage of solo guitarists who draw from both American and world folk idioms, making this a subtle but worthy artifact for those tracing the intersections of tzadik and folk guitar forms.