Sing Out!, September 22nd, 2006
The first time I heard a Crooked Jades recording (The Unfortunate Rake Vol. 2), I experienced the curious sensation that I was listening to a radio that in some miraculous fashion had picked up waves from long, long ago--so long ago, it then occurred to me, that it could only have been an age before radio broadcasts existed. It was as if the air itself had held these sounds in its memory. The Jades, in other words, aren't playing your grandparents' old-time music. Nor are they performing the stylized stringband music that our revivalist contemporaries adapted four or five decades ago and take...
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