Some Strange Country

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共12首歌曲

艺人: Crooked Still
语种: 英语
厂牌: Signature Sounds Recording Company
发行时间: 2010年05月18日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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Newer bluegrass music has become a guilty pleasure of mine over the last twelve months. Somehow bluegrass offers a combination of strings, passion, and hope amidst the banjos, fiddles, cellos, and harmonies picked, strummed, and sung to share life's rise and fall. Though Crooked Still has been around since the early 2000s, their upcoming release of Some Strange Country has been my introduction to their unique alternative spin on the bluegrass style.

Aoife O'Donovan's expressive vocals are but a part of the composite that forms when this quintet purrs along on all cylinders. Joined by bassist Corey DiMario, banjo player Greg Liszt, cellist Tristan Clarridge, and fiddler Brittany Haas, the finger-picking and bow-playing layers add depth and balance that makes even the saddest moments full and emotive. To put it bluntly, these people are amazing.

Some Strange Country features a mix of traditional songs, original works, and a surprising version of the Rolling Stones' "You Got the Silver." Nowhere along the album's path did the group stray from the classical roots of bluegrass or the skills that brought them where they are today - touring to support the album to be released June 1st, 2010.

I knew I was hooked from the first song "Sometimes in this Country." As O'Donovan sings... "Sometimes I'm in this country / sometimes I'm in this town / sometimes a thought goes through my mind / that I myself will drown..." accompanied by a gentle banjo melody and string bass that drives this song from beginning to end. Through the song you can hear the other band members playing with the rhythm and melody combinations to add almost a jazz-like playfulness between fiddle, cello, the banjo, and vocal harmonies.

Contrast that with the slow, emotional vocal and instrumental melodies of "Distress," which evokes a feeling of loss. As a lover of traditional Celtic-sounding songs, this one seems to blend an Irish lilt with the bluegrass to create something not entirely new, but sharing a familiar and comfortable sadness that goes beyond ethnic background or musical style.

Some Strange Country

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