The Crooked Nails

The Crooked Nails, visuel : main aux doigts pansés, « folk’n blues songs »

A snapping double bass and a growling guitar trade old stories, daydreams and slices of life, turning them into blues tunes. A mix of breath and saliva runs through a harmonica and becomes a folk melody. Chains, scraps of wood and metal clash together to stamp out the beat of a primitive rock’n’roll under the feet of comrades brought together in a raw format, fed by their individual experiences and their complicity.

It is a duo born from an unplanned first gig, which became a trio without even noticing, and which leaves room for the improvised, the unwritten and the sensitive, to offer music of the moment, sincere and raw…

The Crooked Nails

Albums

After Everything Looks Like a Nail (2023, 14 tracks), The Crooked Nails are releasing two new albums: Tales from the Waterland (11 tracks) and Songs to the Dustland (12 tracks), available on CD and vinyl.

Cover of the album Tales from the Waterland
Cover of the album Songs to the Dustland

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On stage

The Crooked Nails on stage
© Pascal Strigler

Upcoming dates are listed on the band’s website.

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