★★★★★
Crooked Still's last record, Still Crooked, opened with "Undone in Sorrow", a tune every bit as dark and mournful as its title suggests. This time around, opener "Sometimes in This Country" opens the proceedings with considerably less grimness. Wistfulness is still there to be sure, but the bleakness has been ameliorated somewhat. That, in a nutshell, sums up this latest excellent offering from a band that deserves much more recognition...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-08-24
★★★★★
I used to think that I hated country music. Growing up in the '80s in a rural area meant exposure to the worst of then-current, radio-friendly country music. As the years wore on, the whiny twang became accompanied by the over-produced style of the pop music that was fighting for my disdain in other genres...
- www.ink19.com
2010-06-10
★★★★★
This third album, Still Crooked from Crooked Still, is an elegant package of superbly crafted musical styles taking country/folk as the deep foundation and veering off into exhilarating and exciting directions. Starting things off with a haunting version of the late Ola Belle Reed's "Undone In Sorrow" the album begins much like The Youngbloods Elephant Mountain when "Darkness, Darkness" opened that lp almost forty years before...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28