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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 fiddle player Brittany Haas. They are known for their high energy, technical skill, unusu ...

. With repertoire mostly consisting of traditional music, the group sounded original with the combination of Aoife O'Donovan's vocals and the unusual banjo-cello-double bass line up.

Track list

# "Can't You Hear Me Callin" (Monroe) 3:38 # " Little Sadie" (traditional) 2:35 # "New Railroad" (traditional) 3:15 # " Oxford Town/

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" (Dylan, trad.) 2:20 # "Lone Pilgrim" (traditional) 3:17 # " Come On in My Kitchen" (Johnson) 4:59 # "

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" (Claude Ely) 3:21 # "Ecstasy" (Carter, Leland, O'Donovan) 6:13 # "Mountain Jumper" (Eggleston) 2:51 # "Railroad Bill" (traditional) 2:18 # " Wind and Rain" (traditional) 3:46

Personnel

Aoife O'Donovan Aoife Maria 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, as well as one-third of the supergroup folk trio I'm with Her ...

– vocals * 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 in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

* Rushad Eggleston –

violoncello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched 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, C ...

, vocals * Corey DiMario –

upright bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

with * Casey Driessen – 5-string violin

In popular culture

An abridged version of the song "Little Sadie" and an instrumental version of the song "Ecstasy" both appear in a trailer for ''

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'' shown at E3 2018. "Ain't No Grave" can also be played on a record player by

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in the story, with "Ecstasy" playing afterwards. If the player stays in the room, the entire Side Two of the album will play. The player (as Ellie) can also play the first few notes of "Ecstasy" on an acoustic guitar in one of the penultimate scenes, leading to the flashback scene previewed in the beginning of the "E3 2018" trailer mentioned above. In the TV adaptation of the games, The band itself guest stars (along with series and game composer

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) to perform "Little Sadie" and "Ecstasy" in the same adapted scene.

References

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