Joe Crookston
Website:
http://www.joecrookston.com/
Discography:
2011 - Darkling & The Bluebird Jubilee
2008 - Able, Baker, Charlie and Dog
2004 - Falling Down As The Rain
| Artful, intense, and often transcendent…imaginative, and extremely engaging...If you love a moving song and magical madness, Joe delivers it all....the music, the lyrics, the energy, and the passion for exceptionally well written songs. He loves his audience, and it shows. Joe was chosen as a Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Most-Wanted Artist, and was featured on the Annual Falcon Ridge Preview Tour with Lindsay Mac, Anthony da Costa and Randall Williams. He was as a finalist in the Mountain Stage New Song Contest, and received a year-long songwriting grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to travel throughout New York State, interview local residents, and write songs based on his experiences..It's been a good couple years, and there is no stopping. In February 2009, "Able Baker Charlie & Dog" was awarded "Album of the Year" by the International Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN.He stands on stage holding his Martin OM 28, stomping his foot, singing superb songs about ruby red dresses, drunk roosters, ex-slaves, window washers, Polish Immigrants, Tinian Island, rutabagas and the cycles of life & death. He sings about the thread that runs through us all. Sing Out! Magazine says....”With all the performers out there, an artist has to go beyond good...and Joe does.”In 1987, The Kent State Folk Festival changed his life. After hearing Harvey Reid and the Horseflies at the festival, Joe sold his electric guitar, bought a steel string and never looked back. He's a fiddler and a pretty darn good percolating clawhammer banjo player to boot. He has performed throughout the US, at Folk Festivals, Coffeehouses, venues... There is not a navel gazing break- up song to be found anywhere… "Go see this man perform".... his audience rapport, musicianship and playful stage presence is intense, mesmerizing, and unforgettably dynamic.
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