Crooked Still - Still Crooked
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Artist: Crooked StillEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Music Label: Signature Sounds
Soundtracks:
- Undone In Sorrow
- The Absentee
- Captain, Captain
- Tell Her To Come Back Home
- Low Down and Dirty
- Oh, Agamemnon
- Pharoah
- Florence
- Did You Sleep Well?
- Poor Ellen Smith
- Theme From 'The Absentee'
- Wading Deep Waters
- Baby, What's Wrong With You?
Music reviews of Still Crooked
Music Review: A little disappointed
Rating: 3 Stars
So I waited awhile to do this review, as I wanted to wait for this album to sink in. The first 2 albums were 2 of my favorite 10-20 albums of all time, any band, any genre. Then something happened between the 2nd and 3rd albums: Rushad Eggleston, the original cellist, left the band.
For me, Rushad is who drew me to the band in the first place. Someone said "you have to come see this guy play the cello." I did, and I fell in love with the whole band. So I decided to give this 3rd album a try even though the band subtracted Eggleston and added another cellist and the fiddler.
At first I plain did not like it. But I held off on writing the review, b/c I wanted to give them a fair chance. Over time, the album improved to be "OK" in my book. That is all. Rushad is an amazing talent that just cannot be replaced. Don't get me wrong, the new cellist is excellent. A very very good musician. But if you replaced Jimi Hendrix with say, some guitarist from the Cleveland Orchestra, it's just not going to be the same.
Another thing is the song selection. I thought it was not nearly as good in this album as in the first 2. To me, here are the outstanding songs by album:
Album 1, "Hop High": Darling Corey, Angeline the Baker, Last Fair Deal Gone Down, Orphan Girl, Lonesome Road, Rank Stranger, Shady Grove.
Album 2, "Shaken": Can't you Hear Me Callin, New Railroad, Lone Pilgrim, Come on in My Kitchen, Railroad Bill, Wind and Rain
Album 3: "Still Crooked": I don't know. Maybe 1 or 2 songs could make this list.
If I had never heard the first 2 albums, this probably would have been 4 stars. But they raised the bar so high for themselves.
So if all you want is very good musicians and a great singer playing an intriguing style of bluegrass, then this is for you. But after their first 2 albums, Crooked Still left me craving much, much more.
Description of Still Crooked
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.
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