A country band in the original and truest sense of the term, you won’t find Crooks trafficking in piano bar anthems or boot scoot boogies. Not content to further clog CMT with radio-ready schmaltz, rural sentimentality, or nostalgia for a simpler time, these hounds are out to tree a different animal altogether. If you play a Crooks song backwards, you won’t get your dog, truck, and woman back. Though you might get your morality, humanity and sobriety. The good geologist, like the musicologist, knows that to unearth the best rock, one must look underground. And this holds just as true for outlaw country. So if you’re looking to wet your whistle in an undiscovered watering hole, give Crooks country a try. It’s just down the road apiece, off the well-worn path.
(this post taken from Crooks’ post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen. As for Crooks – check them out at Mohawk with James ‘Slim’ Hand, Friday, April 16th. Pic above by Davis Ayer)