Collinsville's Best: Citizen Spy and David Leff November 27, 2009

Collinsville's Best: Citizen Spy and David Leff

Hear storytelling tonight through music & song, prose & poetry.

The Citizen Spy - - Best Acoustic Band! (Hartford Advocate)

The Citizen Spy is a Connecticut-based acoustic indie folk group that uses words, wood and string to tell stories of heartbreaks, secrets and confessions. The group's repertoire consists of a modern Yankee take on the "Anthology of American Folk Music." They harmonize traditional elements of country, blues and rockabilly with classic radio pop.

The Citizen Spy describes themselves as sounding like "if Woody Guthrie went to Wesleyan." Bandleader Jason Krug formed the band as an acoustic indie folk group "to tell stories of heartbreaks, secrets and confessions." Krug says their best recent gig was at the small Crown and Hammer pub, "in our spiritual home - and boho enclave - of Collinsville. It was a hot and pretty night outside, raucous folk and group singing inside. A definite party scene." The five-piece band, which feature old-timey instruments like banjo, stand-up bass and ukulele, is focused on doing it for the people: "The Spy's suburban murder ballads and bedroom folktales are their stories too. It's a Yankee thing. For good or bad."

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DAVID K. LEFF is a freelance writer from Collinsville, Connecticut. His essays and fiction have appeared in newspapers and magazines. His nonfiction book, The Last Undiscovered Place, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2004. It deals with the relationship of people to their community and landscape and was a Connecticut Book Award finalist. A second nonfiction book, Deep Travel, about traveling close to home, has recently been published by the University of Iowa Press. A volume of poetry, The Price of Water, was published by Antrim House in 2008. See http://www.antrimhousebooks.com/leff.html

http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/032409deep_travel_uipress.html

http://www.myspace.com/thecitizenspy

Official Website: http://www.buttonwood.org