Hop High

Crooked Still | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Signature Sounds Recordings
• ASIN: B000NI3FII
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,404 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Meet Crooked Still, the hot young alternative bluegrass group on a mission to bend the boundaries of traditional music. The unlikely combination of banjo, cello, and double bass drives this low lonesome band, whose soaring vocals and high-wire solos have enraptured audiences all over North America and Ireland since 2001. Crooked Still, was released at the prestigious Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in July, 2004 and was the top-selling CD at the festival that year. Following the success of this first festival appearance, Crooked Still has appeared at concert halls, nightclubs, coffeehouses, and festivals in twenty-three states and three different countries. This grassroots endeavor frequently lands Hop High among the top ten best selling CD's at the online independent megastore CD Baby. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal!, June 20, 2005

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E. L. Bendick "wildlife filmmaker" (Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hop High (Audio CD)

this is the best new picking I've heard in a long, long time. if you have not heard of crooked still, mark my words, you will, because they are just now on the 1st step of a long, long, bluegrass escalator into the stars. i recommend listening to this album while: driving up highway 1 between big sur and monterey, drinking copious amounts of honey wine, having a picnic with your shoes off, grilling italian sausages, reading ann landers, backcountry skiing, water-skiing, on a pier by a blue lake with your feet dangling in the water.

a beautiful combination of traditional music and fetching, talented contemporary soundstuff. everything about the crooked still sound gels and i put it right up there with the telluride bluegrass sessions in my all-time favorite category. lovely stuff. beatiful work. welcome to the world crooked still!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ACTUALLY , THERE SHOULD BE A 10 STAR RATING FOR THIS BAND, November 29, 2005

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sidehillman (Flickerville, Pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hop High (Audio CD)

I HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF SEEING CROOKED STILL 4 TIMES AT THE OCT 2005 MAGFEST IN LIVE OAK, FL. AS THE PRIVIOUS RATER SAID, THIS IS A BAND ON THE VERGE OF GREATNESS. THE CD IS WONDERFUL, WITH AOIFE,S WINSOME VOICE & RUSHAD'S INCREDIBLE CELLO PLAYING. THE OTHER 2 MEMBERS DOC, THE BANJO PLAYER & COREY, THE DOUBLE BASSIST WERE GREAT ALSO. AOIFE'S VOICE HAS TOUCHES OF ALLISON KRAUSS & MARIA MULDAR IN IT, BUT IS REALLY ALL HER OWN. AS WONDERFUL AS THEIR CD IS, IT IS NOTHING TO COMPARE TO THERE LIVE PERFORMANCES. I HOPE YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR AOIFE SING "COME INTO MY KITCHEN" & TO WATCH RUSHAD'S ANTICS AS HE PLAYS. (IF YOU EVER SEE HIM, ASK HIM ABOUT "i shot the squid & ate my son" ) AOIFE, DOC & COREY HAVE TO WATCH RUSHAD CLOSELY AT THE END OF EACH SONG AS HE FINISHES IT HIS WAY & DIFFERENTLY EACH TIME. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM MANY TIMES NEXT YEAR (ALREADY HAVE TICKETS TO SEE THEM IN HARRISBURG, PA IN FEB 2006) & YOU SHOULD PLAN TO ALSO.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Other worldly Mountain Music transcends Bluegrass, February 16, 2007

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Roger D. Cranford "Banjo Cranford" (Blue Ridge Mountains NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hop High (Audio CD)

Other worldly harmonies, haunting female vocals. Crooked Still lies somewhere on the other side of Bluegrass and Folk. Guess you could say they transcend Bluegrass. Much like Nickel Creek, Crooked Still blazes a new trail down in the lower range of traditional Mountain Music. We live up the mountain from Doc Watson and plan on seeing them at MerleFest in April. If you ever get their interpretation of Gillian Welch's Orphan Girl in your head you're in trouble my friend. Thanks Crooked Still. I for one am glad you took this fork in the music world instead of the classical one you were on. Go ahead, and buy this CD you will not be disappointed.