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	Crooked Fingers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crooked Fingers is the name of a band led by former Archers of Loaf lead singer Eric Bachmann.
		Following the release of Bring on the Snakes, Crooked Fingers signed to Merge Records, who released his Reservoir Songs EP in 2002, an EP of cover songs by artists such as Neil Diamond and Queen.
		Crooked Fingers has toured the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, both as a solo act and with a full band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crooked_Fingers (373 words)

	Clinton and Crooked Fingers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Clinton and Crooked Fingers are two new ventures that demonstrate how much this has all changed -- instead of tinkering with the original line-up, the leaders have formed new bands.
		Crooked Fingers began as an outlet for Eric Bachmann, who's the main creative force behind the defunct indie-punk band Archers of Loaf.
		Crooked Fingers, on the other hand, is a new-school singer/songwriter album, much more in line with the pensive baroque melancholy of the young Leonard Cohen, an artist whom Bachmann greatly admires.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/music/00/02/03/CLINTON.html (778 words)

	Crooked Fingers: Crooked Fingers: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Crooked Fingers is the sound of Bachmann finally reaching the bottom of the bottomless pit and finding that it isn't such a bad place after all.
		The believability factor of Crooked Fingers might also be an issue for some; while we hear Tom Waits' weathered croak of a voice and can imagine that he's lived through the songs he's written, the same voice and songs coming from an indie rocker like Bachmann are slightly less convincing.
		Crooked Fingers understands; Eric Bachmann will be right beside you, waiting to greet the crack of dawn with bleary eyes and a mixture of disappointment and relief that the rest of the world hasn't yet been destroyed.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/crooked-fingers/crooked-fingers.shtml (550 words)

	Crooked Fingers News
		The van in which his band was traveling for their tour supporting "Dignity and Shame" had blown a tire, and he needed to get a new one.
		Crooked Fingers evokes delicate modern imagery from a violent bullfighting legend.
		By Paul Zimmerman First Coast News When Crooked Fingers was formed in 2000 former Archers of Loaf icon Eric Bachmann went off on a tangent and never returned.
	rss.topix.net /who/crooked-fingers (231 words)

	Crooked Island District - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Crooked Island District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Group of islands in the Bahamas, in the West Indies, lying southeast of Long Island and stretching round the Bight of Acklins; population (1997) 1,200.
		The district comprises Crooked Island in the north, Acklins Island in the southeast, and a number of small cays including Long Cay, which lies to the south of Crooked Island.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Crooked+Island+District (128 words)

	Crooked Fingers
		Crooked Fingers is his chance to tone things down with subdued guitars, unfussy loops and dark, supportivestrings.
		The most striking thing about Crooked Fingers is Bachmann’s voice, both the keening falsetto and the gravelly croon that sounds like Tom Waits the week before he started gargling with Drano.
		Crooked Fingers is held together by the recurring images of death ("Juliette," "Under Sad Stars") and drowning, whether in vast seas ("Black Black Ocean") or smaller measures("New Drink for the Old Drunk").
	www.citypaper.net /articles/010600/mus.dq1.shtml (201 words)

	The Between: Crooked Fingers - Live At Berbati's Pan
		However, once Crooked Fingers came on, it was clear they were the main show.
		Crooked Fingers generally has a great sound, with a mixture of subdued and contemplative songs and more upbeat, gravel-voiced tracks that indulge in a greater amount of energy.
		She has a slightly lower-pitched, more smoky and sultry voice that wove in and out throughout the songs, proving to be a very compatible and complimentary presence that added nice depth to the music.
	the-between.blogspot.com /2005/04/crooked-fingers-live-at-berbatis-pan.html (904 words)

	kitty magik
		Fingers Crossed is the excellent debut from Melbourne, Australia's Architecture in Helsinki.
		Fingers Crossed is simply pure, joyful pop a la Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach.
		Fingers Crossed is what could happen if the hip kids in high school band joined together and cut loose.
	www.kittymagik.com /reviewsViewer.asp?artist=992 (452 words)

	Crooked Fingers - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Recruiting a small group of friends to help him record his new material, Bachmann shaped graceful drinking songs (or perhaps drunkards' songs), full of poetic self-loathing and surprisingly elegant and minimal instrumentation, songs which Bachmann, with his ruined, desolate voice choked with sun-flecked dust and grit, sounds born to sing.
		Bachmann debuted his new brand of sepia-tinted back porch indie rock blues with an eponymous 2000 LP which he recorded with help from Brian Causey of Man or Astro-man? Just a year later, he put forth a second Crooked Fingers album titled Bring on the Snakes, going it completely alone this time.
		In 2002, Crooked Fingers released the Reservoir Songs EP, an outstanding covers project featuring well-chosen classics by Kris Kristofferson, Neil Diamond, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, and Queen, each injected with Bachmann's now-trademark variety of bleary, raggedly melodic rural discontent.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/crookedfingers.html (325 words)

	Merge Records - Crooked Fingers
		After recording 21 tracks that were intended to be a double record, the band pared the album down to 12 powerful songs of love, lost and found, illustrated by Bachmann’s heartbreaking yet newly hopeful lyrics.
		CROOKED FINGERS full-length release, Dignity and Shame shows the band taking a decidedly new route.
		Crooked Fingers, Bring on the Snakes, Red Devil Dawn) were filled with gorgeous portraits of the broken down and abused, the drunken and the melancholy, augmented by string arrangements and orchestral flourishes.
	www.mergerecords.com /band.php?band_id=3 (334 words)

	Sponic Zine - Music Reviews - Crooked Fingers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With Dignity and Shame, the fourth full-length Crooked Fingers release, Bachmann has established himself as the go-to guy for brokenly optimistic ballads that manage to be hopeful and wizened.
		It would also be easy to call Crooked Fingers depressing, the closing track is called “Carrion Doves” for Christ’s sake, but each of these ten songs is pumped full of love and affection toward the oftentimes drunk/suicidal/broken loners that populate the album.
		Three full lengths and one EP in, Crooked Fingers has already begun to rival Bachmann’s work in Archers of Loaf (and in some cases, surpassed it).
	www.sponiczine.com /review_detail.asp?wfArtist=Crooked+Fingers (963 words)

	Punknews.org \| Crooked Fingers - Dignity And Shame
		Crooked Fingers’ previous releases were defined by melodic finger picking and melancholic lyrics, traits that seemed to have changed a bit with the new release Dignity And Shame.
		While this might be somewhat disconcerting for some Crooked Fingers fans, I find the songs to be quite enjoyable, even if it is a departure from past works.
		By the way, Crooked Fingers’ website is at the moment streaming the songs “You Must Build A Fire,” “Twilight Creeps,” and “Sleep All Summer” if you care to take a listen.
	www.punknews.org /reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=3772 (878 words)

	Nude as the News: Crooked Fingers:
		The three men of Crooked Fingers descended, with their instruments in tow, from the platform of the stage into the middle of the crowd.
		And that is the ultimate testament to the honesty and intimacy that Crooked Fingers created, even as they morphed Prince's "When You Were Mine" into some odd concoction of the fire and brimstone revivalism of Jonathan Edwards and Johnny Rotten.
		Crooked Fingers returned to the stage and the floor again before ending their set.
	www.nudeasthenews.com /concerts/70 (873 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Crooked Fingers
		A multi-instrumentalist and sordid chronicler of limping despair and off-the-mark ambition, Bachmann combines mannered, civil singing, rough hewn acoustic guitar, folk song aesthetics and shambling, hillbilly melodies to create minor key notes of Appalachian toughness and tenacity.
		Crooked Fingers fails to spark at times: the brooding mounts without tension, the music is slightly too appealing for the barren atmospherics, the lyrics fail to probe.
		This is Crooked Fingers’ most bottom-heavy and plain-spoken record: sparse arrangements, empty spaces and lugubrious ballads predominate.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=crooked_fingers (887 words)

	Lazy-I Interview: Crooked Fingers -- October 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Crooked Fingers frontman Eric Bachmann is keeping the rest of his band home for the tour that brings him to Omaha Oct. 14.
		The solo outing is somewhat ironic when you consider that Bachmann broke his usual pattern with this new record by taking a more collaborative approach to the songwriting process.
		Bachmann said he's become more easy-going about his Archers connection as Crooked Fingers has become more well-known.
	www.timmcmahan.com /crooked.htm (577 words)

	Crooked Fingers - s/t (Warm)
		That album was salvaged by its last two songs, the barroom sing-along "After the Last Laugh" and the Eno-esque mix of keyboards on the anthemic title track.
		Crooked Fingers is the second solo project from Eric Bachmann, lead singer of the Archers of Loaf, and this album is his first since the demise of his previous band.
		The Crooked Fingers album takes as a starting point those two great tracks from White Trash Heroes.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/cf.shtml (325 words)

	betterPropaganda
		After the Archers of Loaf disbanded, noted songwriter and indie-rock icon Eric Bachmann took his music in a different direction when he formed CROOKED FINGERS in 2000.
		The band convened last spring at Jupiter Studios in their Seattle homebase with producer Martin Feveyear (Screaming Trees, The Minus Five, Presidents of the United States of America, Rosie Thomas) to record and mix new songs.
		Their first three releases (Crooked Fingers, Bring on the Snakes, Red Devil Dawn) were filled with gorgeous portraits of the broken down and abused, the drunken and the melancholy, augmented by string arrangements and orchestral flourishes.
	betterpropaganda.com /artist_page.asp?id=803 (404 words)

	Crooked Fingers: Dignity And Shame (2005): Reviews
		Velocity Girl's Sarah Shannon guests on Eric Bachmann's fourth Crooked Fingers release, which was co-produced by Martin Feveyear.
		As with other Crooked Fingers albums, Bachmann’s stories really command most of our attention here, and they serve to elevate his songs beyond just being clever pastiches of pop music.
		Nonetheless, this is vintage crooked fingers; heartfelt, poignent lyrics telling tales of bachmann's white trash heroes.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/crookedfingers/dignityandshame (602 words)

	Crooked Fingers: Pitchfork Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Early 2000 marked the much-anticipated release of the first Crooked Fingers LP on Warm Records.
		A lot of songs on the first Crooked Fingers record were written before the Archers broke up, and would have been on an Archers record with different arrangements if the band hadn't ended.
		Because really, all you're doing by making a record, or recording a song, is documenting where your brain is. I'm sure if I recorded the first Crooked Fingers record now, it would sound quite a bit different from when I recorded it then.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /interviews/c/crooked-fingers-02 (2345 words)

	Crooked Fingers: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wed Feb 16 '05 11:34 am New Crooked Fingers album, "Dignity and Shame," to be released on Merge Records.
		The new Crooked Fingers lp, "Dignity and Shame", will be released on Merge Records on February 22, 2005.
		Dignity and Shame, Crooked Fingers' fourth full length finds front man Eric Bachmann embracing great traditions of American Music from appalachian folk, southwestern blues, country and good old rock and roll.
	www.groundcontroltouring.com /news/crookedfingers (256 words)

	Ink 19 :: Crooked Fingers
		Crooked Fingers pulls the whole stylistic shift off pretty damn smoothly, due in great part to THAT VOICE.
		It's a dandy debut, and Crooked Fingers will definitely be a contender with a few more albums under their rawhide belt.
		My beef, if that's the correct term, is that there seems to be a certain distance in the songwriting, maybe it's 'cuz Eric is getting used to a new set of aesthetic boundaries, maybe he doesn't wanna give it all away the first time around.
	www.ink19.com /issues/june2001/wetInk/musicC/crookedFingers.html (389 words)

	Sponic Zine - Article/Interview - Crooked Fingers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After Bachmann released some of his more personal, experimental material under the name Barry Black in the mid-‘90s, (and dissolved the creatively-cornered Archers), he formed the sorta-solo project Crooked Fingers, releasing a couple albums before scoring the film Ball of Wax in 2002 and releasing the results under the title Short Careers.
		I caught Crooked Fingers in May at Denver’s Larimer Lounge, a relatively new venue that Bachmann has nonetheless played multiple times.
		Check out Crooked Fingers’ website or their label Merge for more info.
	www.sponiczine.com /article_detail.asp?id=894 (2241 words)

	In Music We Trust - INTERVIEW: Crooked Fingers: Front man Eric Bachmann discusses new record, touring, and collaboration
		It was around this time, touring solo acoustic and with a band, that the players in his band started to solidify and Bachmann started to think about turning Crooked Fingers into a full-fledged band, and not just a solo project anymore.
		The first Crooked Fingers record would have been a band effort, because I like being in a band, it's just hard to find the right people to work with or people that aren't busy doing something else.
		Demoing a lot for the new record, by the time Bachmann and company entered the studio and recorded the record, the final versions were a lot different than the demos he had carved out.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/70h03.html (882 words)

	SW This Week: Crooked Fingers (Seattle Weekly)
		Bachmann has made each of Crooked Fingers' albums come closer to scoring the spaghetti Western that seems to be playing in his head, most recently with the solid Dignity and Shame (Merge, www.crookedfingers.com).
		Bachmann's ear for the baroque continues to be matched by his eye for the macabre, as on the title track: "To be sure, there ain't no cure/He comes creeping back to beg you/As a thousand gargoyles crash into his head." Dolorean and Inara George open.
		Crooked Fingers — Also: Major Dundee, Todd Oldham, Victor Navasky, and The Graduate.
	www.seattleweekly.com /arts/0516/050420_arts_swtw.php (670 words)

	EvilSponge: Red Devil Dawn by Crooked Fingers
		Crooked Fingers introduces a few noticeably new elements into their mix, this time around, upping the ante a little with a few carnival sounds here and there.
		Where the hell did he get this from?” It is not, in short, anything remotely like the change from Archers of Loaf to Crooked Fingers, and a basic test of whether or not you’re going to like the album is “did you like the first two?”
		Bring On The Snakes, the second Crooked Fingers album.
	www.evilsponge.org /Albums/CrookedFingers__RDD.htm (787 words)

	Static Multimedia - Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Three minutes into Dignity and Shame, I was convinced that Crooked Fingers had signed on as the house band at some Tom Waits-ian cantina; like the excellent "La Maleta Fea" from last year's Merge compilation, the lead track off the new record, an instrumental, feels woozily Southwestern.
		The lyrics to "Twilight Creeps" are the most direct in the Crooked Fingers catalog; they are wince inducing.
		When the first Crooked Fingers record appeared, I don't think many listeners imagined the band had legs.
	www.staticmultimedia.com /content/music/reviews/cd/review_1111552768 (347 words)

	Crooked Fingers Pointing March 17, 2004
		Imagine—a Democrat actually standing up to them and calling it like it is. Most of it is feigned outrage on the Republicans’ part, of course, but hearing Kerry making these statements must have been just a bit jarring, too, simply because Republicans and the conservative media have effectively bludgeoned Democrats into submission for years.
		Oh, and let’s not forget the scam he was exposed in last year, ostensibly planning to raise money for children’s charities during the Republican National Convention here this summer, but actually planning on funneling some of the cash into paying for late-night convention parties, a luxury hotel suite and yacht cruises.
		George W. Bush’s family values crusade, like that of the rest of the Republicans, seems to be targeted to everyone but their own.
	www.signorile.com /articles/nyp116.html (865 words)

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