While we are celebrating the season, as the year winds down, this week marks the tenth anniversary of a band we have not yet had the pleasure of filming, Crooked Still. They formed as the initiative of four distinguished musicians; Singer Aoife O'Donovan, Cellist Rushad Eggleston, banjo player Greg Liszt, and double bassist Corey DiMario, when they got together for an informal concert at the New England Conservatory. Along the way, Brittany Haas joined on fiddle, and Tristan Clarridge became the cellist. They grew the audience in New England for a few years before they released their debut album, Hop High, which came out in February 2005. Their second release, Shaken by a Low Sound, followed a year later, with their EP Friends of Fall being the fifth. That’s just about five releases in five years, which is pretty darn amazing.
If you are lucky enough to be in Australia, there are tour dates for you as they are at the Woodford Folk Festival tonight in Queensland. Oh to be Down Under right about now! We bring you a video that was done a year ago in August, “Look On And Cry.” It melds the seductive with the remarkable movement of the music. Crooked Still. Oh yeah.
- Jessie Scott
