{"id":9694,"date":"2014-12-04T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9694"},"modified":"2014-12-04T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T14:41:09","slug":"the-crooked-brothers-thank-you-im-sorry-winnipeg-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/12\/04\/the-crooked-brothers-thank-you-im-sorry-winnipeg-manitoba\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crooked Brothers :: Thank You, I\u2019m Sorry Winnipeg, Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Martyna Turczynowicz<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Crooked Brothers have been making a name for themselves since the release of their previous albums Deathbed Pillowtalk<\/i> (2009) and Lawrence, Where\u2019s Your Gun?<\/i> (2011) and proved to not be just another folk trio. Their songs range from foot-stomping tunes to heart wrenching ballads, many of them with a special focus on their hometown, Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere we live is a big part of who we are so it definitely seeps in,\u201d says Baker, who plays harmonica, dobro, and sings in the band. \u201cWe\u2019ve spent most of our whole lives here, except for a bit of touring and traveling. It\u2019s definitely shaped who we are.\u201d Songs from their previous albums, like \u201cSunday Dress\u201d and \u201cWindsor Beer\u201d have all referenced favourite spots in Winnipeg, from watering holes to apartments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a degree of writing what you know in your music, whether it\u2019s writing about your hometown or writing about heartbreak. It makes it really relatable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKennedy,\u201d a track from their latest album Thank You, I\u2019m Sorry<\/i> is not only about heartbreak, it also references a certain apartment on Kennedy that has become a little legend among musicians and artists in the \u2018Peg. \u201cThat apartment that Matt technically still has the lease to, originally it was Paul Butler who did the front cover of the record, he passed it on to Kyle Sherman who\u2019s a good friend of ours, who did a big piece on the inside of the record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the apartment is in hands of local cowboy Micah Erenberg [ed. note: see feature on page XX<\/i>], who agrees, that the apartment is something special.<\/p>\n

\u201cKennedy is a magical place. You can make music at all hours. Within the first two weeks of moving in, I had a late-night impromptu jam with Darwin Baker , Matt Foster, Richard Inman, Amber Quesnel (Sweet Alibi), Vince Andrushko, Andrina Turenne (Chic Gamine), Simon Davis and Gabriel Fields (Mariachi Ghost). Matt assured us it would be fine.\u201d Erenberg is pretty sure that \u201cIt\u2019s the only apartment in town that you can jam with that many people until 6am.\u201d<\/p>\n

While all the members write songs and get together to really put them together, some of their songs come from what Baker calls \u201cspontaneous jammage, that can happen in a porch or a hotel room or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spontaneous jamming, is what really brought a track from their latest album \u201cPass Me By\u201d to life. \u00a0\u201c\u2018Pass Me By\u2019 we recorded in a log home,\u201d Baker says. But when the band was touring Italy, the song took on a new life of its own. \u201cWe got rowdy on Prosecco and the song took on a new life. We came home and listened to the recording we\u2019d done and were like, \u2018this is too tame.\u2019 So we went back to the studio and recorded it live off the floor, and tried to harness some of that energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Crooked Brothers recorded parts of Thank You, I\u2019m Sorry <\/i>in \u201ca giant log home at Cloverdale Farm, a B&B outside of Selkirk,\u201d Baker says. The acoustics in there, he continues were fantastic. \u201cIt had a nice relaxed feel. The first two albums were recorded in cabins at Falcon Trails resort, so we\u2019re used to the process of recording in more rustic spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon the Crooked Brothers will be hitting the road once more to tour the new album <\/i>Thank You, I\u2019m Sorry. Then on December 12<\/i>th<\/i>, they\u2019ll be back in Winnipeg for their album release party at the West End Cultural Centre. Tickets are 20$. Doors open at 7:15, show starts at 8:00.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Martyna Turczynowicz The Crooked Brothers have been making a name for themselves since the release of their previous albums Deathbed Pillowtalk (2009) and Lawrence, Where\u2019s Your Gun? (2011) and proved to not be just another folk trio. Their songs range from foot-stomping tunes to heart wrenching ballads, many of them with a special focus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[563],"class_list":["post-9694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694","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=9694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}