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Crooks & Straights are a country group from Rijeka, Croatia. They are a six-piece line-up whose members are Robert Bradičić (electric guitar and vocals), Ana Horvat (vocals), Damir Matković (piano and vocals), Joško Serdarević (drums), Mladen Srića (bass guitar and vocals) and Nataša Veljak (fiddle). The musical genre that they play is best described as a combination of new traditional honky-tonk and western swing. Their overall sound is to a large extent defined by short, but frequent instrumental solos which often follow each other in quick succession. Owing to remarkable skills of most “Crooks & Straights” musicians, this has gradually grown to be recognised as the band’s trademark. == History == The band’s origins go back to October 1999. “Crooks & Straights” were then jointly founded by Damir Matković and Mladen Srića. Damir Matković cut his first musical teeth on the local scene in the instrumental jazz-rock group „Anonymus.“ where he stayed until 1986 when he left the group and departed for Germany. In ensuing years he played as a professional musician on the German club scene as a member of various local bands. Final months of his German episode saw him for the first time appear in a country outfit. That was a band from Apolda called “Rodeo“. Mladen Srića built most of his name on the Rijeka music scene as the bass player in pop bands „Grafiti“ and „VAMP“. „VAMP“ were at one point just a step away from signing a recording deal with „Orfej“, a label from Zagreb, but the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence first disrupted and later put a complete stop to their existence. „Crooks & Straights“ have always been a six-piece band. Their first line-up was formed after Damir Matković had invited Aleksandar Grmaš on acoustic guitar and Joško Serdarević on drums to join the group and Mladen Srića did the same with Siniša Katalinić on electric guitar and Gorana Čehić on fiddle. Among them, the most famous name was undoubtedly Joško Serdarević, member of famous pop groups way back in time of former Yugoslavia. In the second half of the 70’s he played in „Vrijeme i zemlja“ (“Time And Earth”), and in the first half of the 80’s he was a member of „Xenia“, one of the most popular Yugoslav pop acts of that era. At the time of invitation to join „Crooks & Straights“, he had just returned home after ten years as a professional musician in Switzerland. Siniša Katalinić was guitarist in the Rijeka rock formation „The Stuff“ who, if active in terms of discography, never really moved beyond the status of just being a local act. Gorana Čehić had for several years been a member of only slightly more famous rockabilly-country formation „Mississippi Queen“ from Zagreb. When she received an invitation to throw in her lot with „Crooks & Straights“, she was a student at the „Ino Mirković“ classical music academy in Lovran. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crooks & Straights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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