OK, so yesterday I posted a song from Crooked Still's 2006 release, 'Shaken By A Low Sound', and last night I made a point to stop by one of the last real record stores in town(remember how much fun buying records used to be?) and picked up their brand new set of songs, the brilliantly titled 'Still Crooked.'
Since the last album came out, the band has lost a cello player(boo!) and gained a fiddle player(yay!). But the overall spirit of the band and their beautiful collective sound is still very much in place. I think I could listen to vocalist Aoife O'Donnovan(she is also in the band Wayfaring Strangers) sing just about anything and be more than content for hours on end.
Here is one of my favorites from the new record, a beautiful song...
Crooked Still - 'Undone In Sorrow' MP3
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Crooked Still
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If you had told me when I was 18 that in fifteen years I'd be listening to MULTIPLE bands that incorporate the use of a banjo into their sound, I would have laughed at you.
Fast forward to 2008 and here I sit, loving all of these new bluegrass, or alt-grass, revival bands...the stuff is just good for the soul. Lately, I have been devouring a band from Boston called Crooked Still. They have a brand new record out called, beautifully, 'Still Crooked' which I haven't picked up yet. But I still wanted to pass a couple of songs along...here is one of my favorites off of their 'Shaken By A Low Sound' album, which came out in 2006. Oh, and they do a cool version of the American folk classic 'Little Sadie'...which reminded me how much I love the Mark Lanegan version, so I will throw that up too. Enjoy.
Crooked Still - 'Can't You Hear Me Callin?' MP3Crooked Still - 'Little Sadie' MP3Mark Lanegan - 'Little Sadie' MP3
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Mark Lanegan
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