v/a: Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli
Label: Numero Group
The prolific compilers at Numero deliver another gem. As usual for Numero, the picks avoid the obvious: no John Fahey, no Sandy Bull, no Robbie Basho, etc. among these 1966-81 tracks. The best-known of the 14 artists here is Richard Crandell. Styles vary from pretty acoustic finger-picking to shadowed arpeggiations to the is-that-really-a-guitar? “Raga in D” by Ted Lucas and jangling slide on “The Delta Freeze” by Jim Ohlschmidt and “Quidate Quierda” by Tom Smith. All fans of acoustic guitar will want this disc. (Steve)
