{"id":3218,"date":"2011-11-29T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2011-11-29T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:18:17","slug":"the-crooked-brothers-lawrence-wheres-your-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/11\/29\/the-crooked-brothers-lawrence-wheres-your-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CROOKED BROTHERS &#8211; Lawrence, Where\u2019s Your Knife?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3219\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2011\/11\/29\/the-crooked-brothers-lawrence-where%e2%80%99s-your-knife\/lawrence\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3219\" title=\"lawrence\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/lawrence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019ve got funk, I\u2019ve got country \/ I\u2019ve got rhythm and booze\/ I\u2019ve got this crooked little heart \/ I\u2019ve got this thing for you.\u201d And what\u2019s that? Following 2009\u2019s <em>Deathbed Pillowtalk<\/em>, Manitoba\u2019s The Crooked Brothers (Jesse Matas, Darwin Baker and Matt Foster), bring their signature growling and all aforementioned genres to <em>Lawrence, Where\u2019s Your Knife?<\/em> along with stories of long winters, epidemics, hope, loneliness, and sorrow. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QCTmxSr7C28\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c17 Horses\u201d <\/a>is one of the strongest tracks on here with its super catchy, up-tempo beat and gruff, indulgent vocals. Feline basslines prowl all over this record but spend a sizeable amount of time slinking and stretching around \u201cKansas\u201d and \u201cAnother Sun.\u201d The dobro, mandolin, harmonica, banjo, fiddle, and violin all lend a great bluesy feel to the 10 songs. A favourite is \u201cGood Man\u201d, a calmer piece so warm with harmonicas and swaying guitars that you can practically hear the love the lyrics express: \u201cThere ain\u2019t nothing like a good man \/ to drag you down \/ I ain\u2019t nothing but a good man \/ why do you keep me around?\u201d Another must-listen is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3sWgXQ5NMDc\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cYour Love is a Ghost Town\u201d<\/a> simply because it perfectly captures the eerie stillness of a dusty ghost town: raspy vocals are set off by an excellently creeping, measured bassline. I cringe at twanging and country music\u2019s notoriously trite verses as much as the next person, but what The Crooked Brothers have come out with this time infuses soul and story into sound in one of the most non-cliched ways I\u2019ve yet seen. (Transistor 66,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transistor66.com\/\">http:\/\/www.transistor66.com<\/a>) <strong>Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got funk, I\u2019ve got country \/ I\u2019ve got rhythm and booze\/ I\u2019ve got this crooked little heart \/ I\u2019ve got this thing for you.\u201d And what\u2019s that? Following 2009\u2019s Deathbed Pillowtalk, Manitoba\u2019s The Crooked Brothers (Jesse Matas, Darwin Baker and Matt Foster), bring their signature growling and all aforementioned genres to Lawrence, Where\u2019s Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[221,563,1033],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-crooked-brothers","tag-local","tag-transistor-66"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}