The Crooked Jades { New Old-Time / Bluegrass }

"The Crooked Jades are just a fascinating band - wild, wooly, totally unpredictable but always tasteful, soulful and a band that always brings a smile to my face. They've got chords in unexpected places, harmonies that are out of this world and some of the most powerfully arranged material I've ever encountered." BLUEGRASS BREAKDOWN RADIO SHOW, Dave Higgs WPLN 90.3FM/1430AM - Nashville Public Radio. "The Crooked Jades start with the tropes of old-time music and then enlighten it, restructure it and just plain reinvent it, making new musical suits out of very old cloth." RAMBLES MAGAZINE "Old-time is enjoying a tremendous national revival, partly due to smart young bands like the Crooked Jades, Ollabelle, the Duhks, the Reeltime Travelers, Uncle Earl, the Mammals, and Boston's own Crooked Still. But even more, it's hot because it has existed almost entirely underground for years, preserved as a fun-loving social music, with a fiercely anti-commercial, anti-star vibe that pop-weary young people are eating up with an oaken spoon." THE BOSTON GLOBE, Scott Alarik, Feb 2005 "Old-time string music that might appeal as much to ... more...