John Craigie - Mermaid Salt (IEX) (Smoke Swimming Pool) [LP] preorder_blocked_bt Crooked Stick (Feat

Crooked Stick (Feat

Love Theme

and willowy figures shuffling and shivering on their way somewhere

" (written by Jason Eady and Micky Braun of Micky and the Motorcars) for a rowdy honky-tonker version akin to what last call at a Jerry Jeff Walker show might have been like in the late 70's

while Frank Arkwright mastered the album at The Townhouse

John Craigie - Mermaid Salt (IEX) (Smoke Swimming Pool) [LP] preorder_blocked_bt Crooked Stick (FeatSmoke Swimming Pool Colored Vinyl. Portland, OR based singer, songwriter, and producer John Craigie adapts moments of solitude into stories perfectly suited for old Americana fiction anthologies. Instead of leaving them on dog eared pages, he projects them widescreen in flashes of simmering soul and folk eloquence. On his 2022 full length album, Mermaid Salt, we witness revenge unfurled in flames, watch a landlocked mermaid's escape, and fall asleep