Crooked Still

And so we found out they were playing at a festival nearby, went to see them, got to meet them.

And, um, And, yeah, and then a few years later I met Aoife O'Donovan, who I always loved her solo work and her work with Crooked Still.

We met at a festival called Rocky Grass in Colorado.

Yeah, Lions.

I definitely, you know, listened to a lot of jazz while I was at NEC.

It's never been my main, I would not, you know, claim to be a jazz musician in the slightest, but I do feel like the time that I spent, you know, listening to a lot of that at NEC, you know, whatever you listen to kind of seeps in in one way or another.

And I think there was part of me, especially listening to a lot of Punch Brothers um and even Crooked Still and um and then simultaneously like Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell uh a lot of that in college I was kind of wanting I think when you're a young musician you're kind of almost wanting to showcase what you know you know showcase in your writing that you can also play and so I think I was you know when I think back to my early records um there was some of that going on where it was like, well, I'm going to write this song, but I also want to throw this lick in there, you know,

which,