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Expanded from a quartet to a quintet for their 3rd CD, Still Crooked, Crooked Still continue sing the dark lyrical themes of Appalachia while double bass, cello and violin saw away in the groups’ unique line-up.

After their cellist Rushad Eggleston departed, they replaced him with two members - cellist Tristan Clarridge and young California-born fiddler Brittany Haas, who really adds something to the mix with her deep understanding of the driving rhythms of old-timey fiddling. Aoife O’Donovan’s vocals are more self-assured and the group continues to develop their sound that asks the question, ‘What if the old Appalachian music was played on the dark woods of cellos and double basses?’

Playlist

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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1422
CD Cut 2 - 'The Absentee'
Traditional, from the singing of Mr. and Mrs. Sams, arr Crooked Still
Hot Pie Music, ASCAP
Signature Sounds SIGCD 2013 www.crookedstill.com
www.signaturesounds.com, in Australia through: www.shock.com.au
Crooked Still - 'Still Crooked'
2:26
(Full-on, energetic 4/4 bluegrass with banjo, bowed bass, cello and fiddle and Aoife O'Donovan's vocals, from Kentucky couple's frenetic version)

1427
CD Cut 15 - 'Smith's Reel'
Trad
Pub Not Spec
Ook Records OOK CD 001
( no Australian distributor
worldwide, via: www.brittanyhaas.com )
Brittany Haas - "Brittany Haas"
3:30
(Darrol Anger's low-tuned fiddle and Brittany's standard-tuned one in driving Appalachian reel)

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CD Cut 6 - 'Oh Agamemnon'
Music: Brittany Haas, Lyrics: Aoife O'Donovan
BMI/Cosmic Seed Music, ASCAP
Hot Pie Music, ASCAP
Signature Sounds SIGCD 2013 www.crookedstill.com
www.signaturesounds.com, in Australia through: www.shock.com.au
Crooked Still - 'Still Crooked'
4:04
(Brittany Haas' solo fiddle then low bowed double bass and cello then Aoife O'Donovan sings accompanied at first by banjo only, joined by plucked and bowed strings)

1436
CD Cut 6 - 'Djama'
Comp not Spec, arr Maitre Mamadou Aliou Barry
Pub Not Spec
Sterns Music STCD LC 15328 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.sternsmusic.com ) (this release not currently distributed in Australia)
Les Amazones de Guinée - 'Wamato'
5:10
(Push-Pull Guinean rhythm with two electric guitar, electric bass, percussion and brass and Aminata Kamissoko's powerful vocals in a hymn to the glory of all women everywhere on earth.)

1442
CD 2, Cut 7 - 'So Sad' (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
Don Everly
Pub Not Spec
Warner Archives/Rhino Reprise R2 76705
Emmylou Harris - 'anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years'
3:27
(Wayne Goodwin introduction on Mandolin then Emmylou's high, crystal-clear voice with Bary Tashian's low harmonies in Everly Brothers song)

WAYNE GOODWIN GIG ALERT:

'A VERY BIG GIG' Tickets through The Basement www.thebasement.com.au or at the door. Price: $50 Time: 5pm-10pm. Date: Sunday August 3rd Venue: The Basement 26 Reiby Place, Sydney.
John Mellencamp...The Doobie Brothers... Chicago...Emmylou Harris
Members of Midnight Oil......'Daddy Cool' Ross Wilson... The Atlantics
Paul McDermott... Flacco...Wendy Harmer and more giving their support to Wayne Goodwin and the Leukaemia Foundation Australia and America's leading rock musicians are showing their support to one of Australia's finest session violinists, Wayne Goodwin, who has been debilitated physically and financially by non-hodgkins lymphoma in June 2007 with a relapse of the disease to his spinal fluid in October 2007. Wayne Goodwin discovered the aggressive cancer after it was triggered by tick bites whilst living on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Much loved by the artists he has worked with during his illustrious career including: Crosby, Stills and Nash; Tony Bennett; INXS; Midnight Oil and Sting, Wayne's talent has prompted his friends and music legends The Doobie Brothers, Graham Nash, Chicago, Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffet and John Mellencamp to donate collectable memorabilia to help raise funds for him and The Leukaemia Foundation at 'A VERY BIG GIG' on Sunday night August 3rd at Sydney's landmark live music venue The Basement. The Basement has provided their venue and services free to bring together Australia's leading music and comedic talent including: Ebb Tide and the Shorebreakers (Midnight Oil members Jim Moginie, Rob Hirst, Martin Rotsey), 'Daddy Cool' Ross Wilson, Ian Cooper, Dog Trumpet, The Atlantics, Good News Week's Paul McDermott, Flacco and The Sandman, who have all worked closely with Wayne. The Basement gives everyone the chance to experience this fabulous line-up in an intimate and lively atmosphere.
Wendy Harmer will be auctioneering items including John Mellencamp's autographed Fender Acoustic Guitar; a Fender autographed by the Doobie Bros and Chicago, framed T-Shirts signed by The Doobie Bros, Gibson Guitar Custom jacket signed by Emmylou Harris; rare X-Files TV Show memorabilia; signed cookbooks from celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, Kylie Kwong, Tobie Puttock and Matt Skinner, accommodation packages at Establishment Hotel in Sydney and Jonah's in Whale Beach, a Sony Bravia TV plus lots more.
To speak to Midnight Oil's Jim Mogine, Flacco, Dog Trumpet's Peter O'Doherty, Mary Finkelsen and Eagles Angels or Leukaemia Foundation's Fiona Pearce please contact Nicole Helich from MINT PR on 02 9918 5833 or call 0410 517 884. Photos are also available of bands signing the memorabilia.

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1445
CD Cut 3 - 'Captain, Captain'
From the singing of Rebecca King Jones arr Crooked Still
Hot Pie Music, ASCAP
Signature Sounds SIGCD 2013 www.crookedstill.com
www.signaturesounds.com, in Australia through: www.shock.com.au
Crooked Still - 'Still Crooked'
2:42
(Aoife O'Donovan's solo vocal and Amy Helm's harmonies, then gentle backing of banjo and bowed strings in song about a woman inquiring after her drowned soldier lover - solo on cello)

1450
CD Cut 13, 'World Of Trouble'
Tim O' Brien
Cornbread Nation, Admin By Bluewater Music ( ASCAP )
Howdy Skies Records/ Proper American PRPACD007
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: proper-records.co.uk )
Tim O' Brien - 'Chameleon'
4: 01
(Faux-Appalachian, faux-plaint. Sly song in which Tim addresses various contemporary American political realities, perspectives, naiveties and prejudices. He accompanies himself - 'claw-hammer/old-timey/mountain' style - on a 5-string banjo. It is a 1998 Ome 'Minstrel' banjo )

1454
CD Cut 7 - 'Pharaoh'
From the singing of Sydney Carter, arr by Crooked Still
Hot Pie Music, ASCAP
Signature Sounds SIGCD 2013 www.crookedstill.com
www.signaturesounds.com, in Australia through: www.shock.com.au
Crooked Still - 'Still Crooked'
4:42
(The old spiritual, done here exaggeratedly, with tolling bowed and plucked strings, a lone banjo and Aoife O'Donovan's vocals)

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans