The Crooked Vines - Mostly Alive (2021)

The source recordings for this album primarily come from four performances. Three are from New Orleans venues: The Maison on February 25th 2016, Maple Leaf Bar on June 1st 2019, and Tipitina’s on July 26th 2019. The other was in Pensacola, FL at the Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio on September 30th 2019 for WSRE’s Studio Amped program. You can view much of the source materials in their original forms on our YouTube channel and Facebook page in various performance videos over the years.

In 2016 at The Maison the band consisted of Mikayla Braun (lead vocals, keys), Lori Lapatka (alto sax, vocals), James Keene (trombone, vocals), Steven Schwartz (keys, tenor sax, vocals), Nicholas Carlisi (guitar), Stephen Bohnstengel (bass), and Woody Hill (drums).
All the performances in 2019 had a consistent lineup of Mikayla Braun (lead vocals, keys), Phil Arpa (alto sax), James Keene (trombone, vocals), Steven Schwartz (keys, tenor sax, vocals), Jonathan Solomon (bass), and Dane Schindler (drums).

‘Hybrid Tuna’ and ‘Coffee Stains’ are the only two songs not from a previous album.