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Were I ever to be stuck in a desert, with nothing but a bag of shrooms and a cd player. I'd be listening to this ep the entire time, just wasting away.
Favorite track: Bed Bugs.
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Dry, dusty,and barren vocals reflecting a desert seeped in spaghetti western history merging into 21st Century electronica,with a distinctly noir-ish dark menacing tilt. See the video here - vimeo.com/3361893Favorite track: Bed Bugs.
Crooked Cowboy & The Freshwater Indians have entranced all they come in contact with for close to a decade, tramping and pacing their way across vast musical genres, with their latest release compounding these forms in discrete menace.
In his earlier days as a musician and composer, Crooked Cowboy shared sessions and stages with the likes of Jimmy Cliff, Willie Nelson, John Lee Hooker, Beck, and Stereolab, to name a few. His subtle influences can also be traced back to unsavory L.A. nights befitting his noir-ish tone. He set up command in the mid 90′s with The Blue Hawaiians, reinterpreting the surf revival at such hotspots as the Lava Lounge, The Viper Room, and The Roxy, providing the background for L.A.’s new young chic, including none other than Quentin Tarantino, who’s film Pulp Fiction pulsates with the same dark incongruity. Toward the tail-end of the 90′s, Crooked Cowboy locked in as a hermetic touring machine, while still taking time out to record soundtracks for various films, composing for Everlast’s hit record, and single “Goodbye Sadie” for Tito and Tarantula.
Once united in 2006, Crooked Cowboy & The Freshwater Indians became a live orchestral tour-de-force. The ensemble ranges from 6-12 while playing live, showcasing a psychedelic whirlwind tinged with an unattainable nostalgia for a western era we can only long to re-experience.
With this newest release, Crooked Cowboy turns the storm inward, taking the formative experiences and moods of life in a dusty fast lane and forges in a fire of hard-earned grit. Annalog And Her Hopeful Diaries examines the songs in him traced with lonliness and heartbreak. As their heavy rhythmic pendulum swings, one transcends to a place a time where Ennio Mariconne fences with Phillip Marlowe in the final resting place of Ronnie “Z-Man” Barzell. And there is no one better suited to guide us through this journey than The Crooked Cowboy.
The cast of characters include…
Crooked Cowboy >>> vocals, bass, guitar, keys
Brendan Willard >>> bass
Eben Stuart >>> vocals, percussion
Michael Morgan >>> drums, percussion
Amanda Movlai >>> moog, vocals
Marianne Williams >>> vocals, celesta
credits
released September 4, 2012
All songs written by Crooked Cowboy
BED BUGS
Recorded at The Barn by Crooked Cowboy and Steve Kille
Performed by:
Becky Stark, Lisa Papineau, Marianne Williams - vocals
Brendan Willard - bass
Nick Murray - drums
Neil Schuh - optigan and bells
Crooked Cowboy - vocals, guitars, and moog prodigy
Mixed by Samur Khouja at Mad Dog Studios
ANNALOG AND HER HOPEFUL DIARIES
Recorded at The Barn by Crooked Cowboy
Performed by:
Lisa Papineau - vocals
Crooked Cowboy - vocals, all instruments
Mixed by Ealre Mankey
BUMPY ROADS
Recorded by Crooked Cowboy at The Barn
Performed by:
Lisa Papineau, Balloon, Thomas Kirkpatrick, Kate Hill - vocals
Nick Murray - drums
Neil Schuh - melodica
Crooked Cowboy - bass, moogs, guitars, effects, vocals
Mixed by Neil Schuh at Schuh Studios
HISTORY OF THE BUG (Part IV)
Recorded by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound
Performed by:
Dan Allaire - drums
Neil Schuh - chinese dulcimer
Crooked Cowboy - vocals, bass, guitars
Amanda Frances Movlai - moogs
Mixed by Neil Schuh at Schuh Studios
BODIES
Recorded by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound
Performed by:
Crooked Cowboy - vocals, guitars, effects
Neil Schuh - keyboards
Dan Allaire - drums
Brendan Willard - bass
Eben Stewart - percussion
Mixed by Neil Schuh at Schuh Studios
EP mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic
Original album art by Cheyenne Randall
Album art design and layout by Crooked Cowboy, Neil Schuh, and Christopher Slater
Buoyant one-off release from a long-running Atlanta band who juggle garage rock, folk, and power pop; don't miss the Mark Morrison cover. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 9, 2024