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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0701237201320 Label: Signature Sounds Manufacturer: Signature Sounds MPN: 2013 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Signature Sounds Release Date: June 24, 2008 Studio: Signature Sounds Editorial Review: Album Description: It takes courage to release the securityof the familiar and embrace change. After five years of touring and establishing themselves as "the most important folk group to emerge from Boston since the early 60's" (Boston Globe) , Crooked Still announced that cellist Rushad Eggleston would leave the group in November of 2007. The band that had been drawing invitations from huge events like the historic Newport and Telluride Folk Festivals, and numerous rave reviews from publications like USA Today and Interview Magazine, was now on the cusp of a new musical chapter. The quintet became five with the addition of fiddler Brittany Haas and Tristan Clarridge on cello and second fiddle. If the first album from the new line-up is any indication, success for this young band will be explosive. Crooked Still continues to perform one of the most compelling forms of alternative bluegrass and string band music today. Still Crooked is an ensemble effort of inspired music making that moves the bands' impossible to pigeonhole style in new directions while honoring their folk roots.Crooked Still's genre bending sound is the combination of five distinctive talents who are not content to limit themselves to any one project or style of music. While Crooked Still is the main band for these talented players, all are involved in other projects including Aoife O'Donovan's work with Solas and Sometymes Why and Gregory Liszt's turn with the Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions Band. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - gorgeous musicthe poignant vocals float over a lively and rhythmic wave of instrumentation. the ballads are lovely and there is good variety in terms of the moods of the different pieces. Rating: - Great recording from a brilliant bandOK, imagine, if you will, an old wooden railroad bridge across a deep chasm somewhere in the wilderness. Two trains approach from the opposite directions: one is carrying a brilliant string quartet of the finest young classical musicians from the most demanding music schools. The other train is bearing a fantastic bluegrass band with one of the greatest banjo players of the time. They collide head-on. And yet miraculously and mysteriously, out of the inferno strides five ... Read More Rating:  - Chamber BluegrassOr "Artgrass," as I call it. They have a cello player. Enough said. This is bluegrass for aesthetes and city slickers who wouldn't be caught dead at a barn dance or revival meeting. The girl singer is really annoying, too; all breathy and fragile and folky. I could barely understand the lyrics she was singing. The musicianship is of a high level, but to what end? There seems to be nothing about life that these folks wish to communicate to the listener. The music ... Read More Rating: - An extraordinary album from a truly original bandI discovered Crooked Still entirely by accident at the Grey Fox bluegrass festival two years ago. After enjoying a few sets of traditional bluegrass music played by well-established bands that have been together for decades, this ragtag group of 20-somethings came on the stage -- one with a double bass and another with a cello -- and blew the audience away. I've been hooked ever since. Still Crooked is the perfect name their latest album, since it's the first since the departure of their ... Read More Rating:  - Cconsistently surprised their audienceTheir latest album has pumped up some traditional american music. This time they did it with two new members. A new cellist replacing the old one. And a new fiddler Ms. Haas. She gives the Crooked Still so much more sounds and variations. Her solo part on the tunes are just amazing. Fans love it. Quality of sound is up to the standard like the previous two albums. The songs that they've chosen on this album is not what i've anticipated. It's always a 'growing' thing. You've to listen to it ... Read More |
