Melodic, beautiful, but still pretty adventurous solo guitar from Richard Crandell – originally a private press release, from a player that turned out to be pretty influential to guitar gurus such as
Leo Kottke, who recorded "Rebecca" – plus a Crandell piece was included on Numero's fantastic Wayfaring Strangers Guitar Soli compilation. In The Flower Of Youth is a sometimes lovely, sometimes fairly brooding set, and he balances incredible technique and mastery with gut level emotion very well! Titles include the title track, "Rebecca", "Diagonal", "Shamrock", "Delta Triad", "Assembly Line", "Mount Shasta" and more.
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Richard Crandell —
In The Flower Of Our Youth ... LP