Crooked Still
The new five-member band converged to mingle their creative processes at Allaire, a studio in upstate New York, with producer Eric Merrill for Still Crooked. The album, to be released on the Signature Sounds on June 24, 2008, balances unknown traditional material with three new tunes from the band, along with “Did You Sleep Well?” by fellow old time musician Nathan Taylor and a Mississippi John Hurt standard. The entire album was recorded “live” in one big room, with everyone playing together. Merrill captured most songs in one or two takes. “I was outside in the hallway, because my voice is so quiet,” O’Donovan says. “Recording live, you don’t have an option to overdub; that always makes a better album.”
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