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Silvan For Sylvia

by Joshua Crane

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Beauty Bush 03:20
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Gravity 03:14
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Fireflies 04:00
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Trees 02:48
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All singing & instruments performed & recorded by J. Crane except:

Bass Guitars: Matthew "Count" Liston

Guest Vocals: Julia Read (Tracks 4 & 7) juliaread.bandcamp.com

Guest Vocals: Tansy Crane (Track 12)

Electric Guitar: Joshua Baum (Track 5)

Recorded with Garageband, in Williamsburg, MA, 2019 - 2022.

Mixed & Mastered by Dan Richardson, Up in The Basement, Brattleboro, VT.

Front & Back Cover Collage Art by Snow Crane



This record is dedicated to Sylvia June Clary Sofinowski
(1924 - 2020)

Special thanks to the awesome mission & educational support of Memory Bridge the Foundation for Alzheimers and Cultural Memory. Check out: memorybridge.org. All proceeds from digital sales will be contributed to this organization.

Thank you to Jim Weigang for rescuing "Trad. American Folk Songs" from the town dump, source for "Touch Not The Phone."

Thank you to Matthew Liston for recording feedback & advice.

Thank you to Joshua Baum for loan of recording equipment.



Short Run of 50 Compact Discs can be purchased exclusively at The Care Collaborative Thrift Store (South Deerfield, MA), (to benefit caregivers) - or at TurnItUp! CD Store in Northampton, MA. Or, send $7 + $1 shipping to P.O.Box 144 Williamsburg, MA 01096.

Choral Arrangement (SATB) available for "Touch Not The Phone" upon request.

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released July 9, 2022

All words & music composed by J. Crane except:

---"Pretty Sylvia," tune taken from Trad. American Folk Songs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection, as sung by Lena Borne Fish, New Hampshire, 1940. (Arranged by J.C.)

---"Touch Not the Phone," lyrics based on "Touch Not The Cup," an early temperance song (published 1899) as collected in Trad. American Folk Songs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection, sung by Lena Borne Fish. Air based on "Long, Long Ago."

---"I Heard a Forest Praying" Songwriters: S. Lewis. P. De Rose. Johnny Mathis recorded most popular version.

---"Trees" (Music by Oscar Rasbach (c) 1922, a setting of the poem by Joyce Kilmer. Many famous singers sang it, including Paul Robeson, Mario Lanza, etc.

---"The Arrow & The Song" (H. W. Longfellow) / orig. music J.C.

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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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