Labels Milagrito Records Role Singer ยท joecrookston.com | Name Joe Crookston Website www.joecrookston.com | |
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Albums Able Baker Charlie & Dog, Darkling & the BlueBird Jubilee, Georgia I'm Here, Fall Down as the Rain Similar People Pat Wictor, Anthony da Costa, Red Molly, Greg Greenway, John Gorka | ||
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Joe Crookston is an American folk singer. As of June 2014, he has released four albums on the Milagrito Records label: 2004's Fall Down as the Rain, 2008's Able Baker Charlie & Dog, 2011's Darkling & the BlueBird Jubilee, and 2014's "Georgia I'm Here".
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- Biography
- Awards and recognition
- Earlier albums
- Fall Down as the Rain 2004
- Able Baker Charlie Dog 2008
- Darkling the BlueBird Jubilee 2011
- Unreleased
- References
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Biography
Crookston's family origins include Hungary, and his web site reports that polkas and Eastern European food figured in his upbringing. Crookston was born and raised in rural Ohio and attended Kent State University. In 1987, while at college, he attended the Kent State Folk Festival and his musical interests shifted to focus on folk music, causing him to sell his classical guitar and acquire a steel stringed acoustic. Crookston lived in Seattle, Washington from 1996 until 2004. For about a year during this time he worked with troubled youth in a prison.
As of 2015 he is based in Ithaca, New York and tours extensively to perform.
Awards and recognition
Crookston's first label album, Fall Down as the Rain, was selected by Performing Songwriter Magazine as one of 2004's top 12 self-produced independent recordings, and was featured on National Public Radio's All Songs Considered, The Midnight Special and Folkscene. Crookston was a finalist in the Mountain Stage NewSong contest.
In 2007, Crookston received a Rockefeller Foundation grant for a project called "Songs of the Finger Lakes". Emulating Woody Guthrie, he spent a year traveling in the Finger Lakes region of New York state, collecting stories to turn into songs. Four songs from this project were incorporated into his second album.
In the summer of 2007, audiences at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival selected him as one of the artists they most wanted to have perform at the following year's festival. In Spring 2008, Crookston and the other "Most Wanted" award winners (Anthony da Costa, Randall Williams and Lindsay Mac) were sent on a 23 concert promotional tour in the northeastern U.S., with venues including the Kennedy Center and Club Passim.
In February 2009, his second CD, Able Baker Charlie & Dog was given the "Album of the Year" award by the International Folk Alliance in a ceremony in Memphis, Tennessee, indicating that it received more radio airplay than any other folk album released in 2008.
Earlier albums
Crookston released three CDs on his own independent label: Nobody Told Me, Michaelangelo Knew, and Rounding the Square.
Fall Down as the Rain (2004)
Able Baker Charlie & Dog (2008)
Darkling & the BlueBird Jubilee (2011)
Unreleased
Songs Crookston has written that do not appear on any of his Milgarito albums include: