Crooked Still

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Crooked Still performing at the 2007 Shetland Folk Festival.
Crooked Still performing at the 2007 Shetland Folk Festival.

Crooked Still is a self-styled alternative bluegrass band consisting of vocalist Aoife O'Donovan, banjo player Dr. Gregory Liszt, bassist Corey DiMario, cellist Tristan Clarridge and fiddler Brittany Haas. They are known for their high energy, technical skill, unique instrumentation and innovative acoustic style.

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[edit] History

O'Donovan and DiMario met at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in spring of 2001. Former cellist Rushad Eggleston, who was studying at Berklee College of Music, and Liszt, a graduate student at MIT, were playing music together around the same time, and when the four met that summer, they formed the band that would be Crooked Still. While its members finished school, Crooked Still played various Boston venues, growing in popularity and collecting favorable reviews from the local press, notably the The Boston Globe, Northeast Performer, and the Boston Herald.

In 2004, the group was invited to perform at the Newport Folk Festival and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, where their debut album, Hop High, was the top-selling album. Following the success of this first festival appearance, Crooked Still went on to appear at concert halls, festivals, coffeehouses, and nightclubs in 23 states and several countries. On August 22, 2006, it released its second album, Shaken by a Low Sound.

Cellist Rushad Eggleston performed his last show with the band on November 18, 2007. In January 2008 two new members joined the band: cellist Tristan Clarridge and fiddler Brittany Haas, both of whom have toured in Darol Anger's Republic of Strings. The band is recording an album with these new members to be released in 2008.

[edit] Discography

[edit] 2004 - Hop High

  1. "Darling Corey"
  2. "Angeline the Baker"
  3. "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"
  4. "Orphan Girl"
  5. "Lonesome Road"
  6. "Old Virginia"
  7. "Flora"
  8. "Look On and Cry"
  9. "Lulu Gal"
  10. "Rank Stranger"
  11. "Shady Grove"

[edit] 2006 - Shaken by A Low Sound

  1. "Can't You Hear Me Callin'"
  2. "Little Sadie"
  3. "New Railroad"
  4. "Oxford Town/Cumberland Gap"
  5. "Lone Pilgrim"
  6. "Come On In My Kitchen"
  7. "Ain't No Grave"
  8. "Ecstasy"
  9. "Mountain Jumper"
  10. "Railroad Bill"
  11. "Wind and Rain"

[edit] 2008 - Still Crooked

  1. "Undone in Sorrow"
  2. "The Absentee"
  3. "Captain, Captain"
  4. "Tell Her to Come Back Home"
  5. "Low Down and Dirty"
  6. "Oh, Agamemnon"
  7. "Pharaoh"
  8. "Florence"
  9. "Did You Sleep Well?"
  10. "Poor Ellen Smith"
  11. "Theme From "The Absentee"
  12. "Wading Deep Waters"
  13. "Baby, What's Wrong With You?"

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