''Still Crooked'' is the third album by progressive bluegrass group
Crooked Still
Crooked Still is an American band consisting of vocalist Aoife O'Donovan, banjo player Gregory Liszt, bassist Corey DiMario, cellist Tristan Clarridge and fiddler Brittany Haas. They are known for their high energy, technical skill, unusual i ...
. At the end of 2007 Rushad Eggleston parted ways with the group and was replaced by Tristan Clarridge, cellist of Darol Anger's Republic of Strings. Brittany Haas, 5-string
fiddler
A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Although in many ...
of the same group, was added to the Crooked Still lineup as well.
[http://www.answers.com/topic/still-crooked Album info and review (retrieved Feb 2010)]
Track list
# Undone in Sorrow (Reed) 3:05
# The Absentee (trad.) 2:27
# Captain, Captain (trad.) 2:42
# Tell Her to Come Back Home (Macon, trad.) 2:57
# Low Down and Dirty (O'Donovan) 4:07
# Oh, Agamemnon (Haas, O'Donovan) 4:04
# Pharaoh (trad.) 4:42
# Florence (Carter) 3:28
# Did You Sleep Well? (Taylor) 4:07
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Poor Ellen Smith
Poor Ellen Smith is a late 19th-century murder ballad recounting the shooting death of one Ellen Smith, and the trial and execution of her murderer.
The song is based on real events in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1894, a ne'er-do-well named ...
(trad.) 2:44
# Theme From The Absentee (Liszt) 0:24
# Wading Deep Waters (trad.) 4:12
# Baby, What's Wrong With You? (Hurt) 5:10
Personnel
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Aoife O'Donovan
Aoife O'Donovan ( , ; born November 18, 1982) is an American singer and Grammy award-winning songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer for the string band Crooked Still and she also co-founded the Grammy Award-winning female folk trio I'm ...
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vocals
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Gregory Liszt -
banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...
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Tristan Clarridge -
violoncello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D ...
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Corey DiMario -
upright bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...
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Brittany Haas
Brittany Haas (born 1987) is an American fiddle player, who also sings and plays the banjo. She is a member of the Boston-based alternative bluegrass band Crooked Still, which is currently on hiatus. She is a regular performer on Live From Here. ...
- 5-string fiddle,
vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...
References
External links
Album lyricsOfficial website
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2008 albums
Crooked Still albums