Stopping Starting Now, by Joshua Crane

Stopping Starting Now

by Joshua Crane

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1.	Turtle Times Two 03:25	buy track
2.	Stopping, Starting Now 04:17	buy track
3.	When The Ferns Unfold 03:22	buy track
4.	Sometimes People Are Good (F. Rogers) 03:17	buy track
5.	Jam 00:54	buy track
6.	Calming What I Can 03:57	buy track
7.	For Thou & Thy Breath 02:12	buy track
8.	Moonshadow (C. Stevens) 02:03	buy track
9.	Aimlessness 03:12	buy track
10.	Valley of Letting Go 03:04	buy track
11.	Healing Days Are Here Again 03:18	buy track

about

the theme of this record was inspired by the teaching of
"Stopping, Calming, Resting, Healing" by the Ven, Vietnamese Zen Master Thich What Hank, which is Chapter 6 in his book called
"The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching."

all words & music for the songs were written by joshua crane except
"Sometimes People Are Good" by Fred Rogers, (used with permission) verses following the first are invented, you might like to create your own verses, too, "zipping" in whatever human trait has been attracting or averting you, and explore versifying the opposite to loosen mental grasping? also, "Moonshadow" is by Cat Stevens, "For Thou &
Thy Breathe" is music composed by Meyer, Leslie & Goetz (1917) originally tilled "For Me & My Gal," and "Healing Days Are Here Again" is an instrumental guitar rendition of the 1929 composition
"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Ager & Yellen.

for a digital copy of lyrics, send a request through
joshuacrane.bandcamp.com
or by mail to PO Box 1 Williamsburg, MA 01096

this album was recorded 2022/2023 in Williamsburg, MA (land stolen from the Nipmuck & Pocumtuck tribes that stewarded this land for thousands of years & whose ancestors live among us.
thanks to nolumbekaproject.org for sharing this truth.)

proceeds from this record will be donated to Música Franklin, an after school music program (in Western MA) for underserved youth, based on El Sistema.

special thanks to all the musicians who contributed their time d.
energy to these songs.

credits

released November 25, 2023

guest vocalist (tracks 7/9): Julia Read juliaread.bandcamp.com
guest vocalist (track 2): Zack Foley zackfoley.bandcamp.com

bass guitars: Matty Liston

The Babylon Renegades:
pedals, sound effects: Mucus Wolf
keyboards: Dane Braastad

thanks to Dan Richardson (Up in the Basement, Brattleboro, VT) for supervising the mixing. and thanks to Josh Baum for loaning the recording equipment.

thanks to MorningSun Mindfulness Community for teaching mindfulness & welcoming people to practice in community & in harmony with nature. inspiring a number of these songs & having sharing circles where I could sing early drafts. www.morningsuncommunity.org

thanks to Michael Verde & Memory Bridge for teaching "Letting Go, letting in, letting be" which inspired the last song, as part of training for being with people living with dementia.
www.memorybridge.org

thanks to Anna Bayles Arthur for allowing me to use a detail from her painting "HANDS" (2012). To see the full painting, and more of her astounding oeuvre, www.annabaylesarthur.org.

and finally thanks to my Mom & Dad for always supporting my creative pursuit of music.

"Healing Days Are Here Again" is in memory of Jack Pezanelli

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Joshua Crane Northampton, Massachusetts

Over the last 14 years Crane has been delivering original songs with a voice that "can shock on first listen." (Ken Maiuri, Gazettenet.com) His style of guitar is steeped in trad. folk & blues. Inspired by such varied artists as Joni, Elliott Smith, Rev. Gary Davis, Joshua's lyricism is a mood-space for introspection. He has opened for Richard Buckner & Califone, & self-produced 7 albums. ... more

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