{"id":774,"date":"2010-08-13T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=774"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:58:16","slug":"crooked-still-some-strange-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/crooked-still-some-strange-country\/","title":{"rendered":"CROOKED STILL + Some Strange Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Some-Strange-Country-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-775\" title=\"Some-Strange-Country-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Some-Strange-Country-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Some Strange Country\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Some-Strange-Country-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Some-Strange-Country-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>C<\/strong><strong>ROOKED STILL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Some Strange Country<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Signature Sounds]<\/p>\n<p>Crooked Still\u2019s fourth album arrives with a fitting title, for with this release the band has solidified its hold on musical territory that few if any have trod before. Is it folk? Or old-time? Is it bluegrass, or newgrass? Some species of classically styled chamber music? It sounds like all of those things, sometimes within the span of a single song. (The sweep of \u201cLocust in the Willow\u201d from bluegrass propulsion to classical bowed stateliness is one spectacular example.) <em>Some Strange Country <\/em>finds the band continuing to draw the bulk of its material from traditional fare (and adding one curveball, a gorgeous version of the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cYou Got the Silver\u201d). But by the time those songs have been filled up by the group\u2019s lightning runs, delicate plucking and intricate interplays of cello, banjo, fiddle and double bass, they\u2019ve become something quite different.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Stuart Munro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CROOKED STILL Some Strange Country [Signature Sounds] Crooked Still\u2019s fourth album arrives with a fitting title, for with this release the band has solidified its hold on musical territory that few if any have trod before. Is it folk? Or old-time? Is it bluegrass, or newgrass? Some species of classically styled chamber music? It sounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,407,70,409,408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}