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(1998 – present)

Following the breakup of Archers of Loaf in 1998, Eric Bachmann started work on a solo project that he named Crooked Fingers. The first release of this project, a self-titled release (Crooked Fingers) of various songs he had written, was put out by Warm Records in 2000. It was followed shortly after by a second album on Warm, Bring On The Snakes, which brought him some attention.

Following the release of Bring on the Snakes, Crooked Fingers signed to Merge Records, who released his Reservoir Songs EP in 2002, an EP of cover songs by artists such as Neil Diamond and Queen. Red Devil Dawn followed this in 2003, his first full-length for Merge.

Dignity and Shame was released in 2005, a concept album based around the lives of bullfighter Manolete and Lope Sino, a Spanish actress. A live recording of Sleep All Summer and You Must Build Fire featuring Emma Pollock of The Delgados was also released as a 7” in 2005 on Eastern Fiction.

Crooked Fingers has toured the usa, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, both as a solo act and with a full band. They were featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Becomes Eclectic and on NPR’s World Cafe in May of 2005. On the 2005 U.S./Canada Tour, Matt Gentling, former member of Archers of Loaf, played the bass.

For more information, see their own website:

http://www.crookedfingers.com/

Tagged as:

indie, indie rock, alt-country, folk, americana
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1	Sleep All Summer	70
2	Luisa's Bones	65
3	Call to Love	55
4	New Drink for the Old Drunk full track	49
5	Big Darkness	45
6	Phony Revolutions	41
7	You Can Never Leave	40
8	Twilight Creeps	34
9	Man Who Died of Nothing at All full track	33
9	Your Control	33
9	Sweet Marie	33
12	Crowned in Chrome full track	31
13	What Never Comes	30
13	Surrender Is Treason full track	30
13	You Threw a Spark	30

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
last month

meh I'll give these guys another listen.

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daniiell3x3 wrote:
April 2009

Luisa's Bones is the best song ever! I just discovered these guys, from the tv show Chuck. ^_^

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jamesdoyle wrote:
April 2009

I just now discovered Crooked Fingers. Why did I JUST NOW find out about Crooked Fingers?

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
March 2009

Archers of Loaf 811,053 plays (39,283 listeners) Still his best work.

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bkrazy2sweet wrote:
January 2009

Missing them in salt lake tonight sad

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staircar wrote:
November 2008

New interview with Eric Bachmann: http://www.madeloud.com/article/2856

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AxYoung wrote:
November 2008

Review of Forfeit/Fortune: http://consequenceofsound.net/2008/11/16/album-review-forfeitfortune/

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doxastic wrote:
November 2008

Get rid of the previews and more people with listen to your SHIT!!! - I hate previews

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therottingstrip wrote:
September 2008

http://www.last.fm/group/Crooked+Fingers I'm trying to bring the last.fm crooked Fingers group back from the dead. New album Oct 7th!

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wendell3 wrote:
September 2008

My favorite.

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The30YearsWar wrote:
August 2008

anybody able to help me track down the lyrics to "disappear" i can't seem to find them on the usual places i look. thanks!

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mattlazear wrote:
January 2008

Far better than Archers of Loaf, in my opinion.

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superunknow wrote:
October 2007

Archers of Loaf and Crooked fingers are very good.The first most rock and the others with a sound most traditional.

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Phillyzero wrote:
September 2007

All about red devil dawn...though some intense songs on the other albums as well.

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freevolt wrote:
July 2007

She spread her legs and flew away...

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jacko_c167 wrote:
June 2007

dignity and shame is awesome. highly underrated

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requiem4solace wrote:
June 2007

amazing live, especially when it's just him without the rest of the band.

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drmgc99 wrote:
April 2007

This guy really finds his stride with Crooked Fingers. Every album is worth owning. Emusic has the catalog listed.

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Televisionshoe wrote:
November 2006

Good shit

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WiseSalesman wrote:
October 2006

Bacchman needs to stop screwing around with his solo albums and get cracking on Crooked Fingers' next release.

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