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Band Members

Kirk Dath
Vocals & Guitar

Kirk Dath, Vocals & Guitar for Crook & The Bluff

Ryan Arnold
Lead Guitar

Ryan Arnold, Lead Guitar for Crook & The Bluff

Darren Farnsworth
Drums

Darren Farnsworth, Drums for Crook & The Bluff

"If mankind ever colonizes the moon, Crook and the Bluff will be playing in a corner nightclub, with the desolate, white prairie behind them."

 

You’ve fallen down the rabbit hole. Concussed from the impact you’ve awoken bewildered. Quickly you acknowledge that you’ve been transported to an unfamiliar and enchanted domain. It’s dark. The fog is thick and the heat in the air suggests a swamp. There’s a voice that pulls you forward speaking in raw truths. Mesmerized you trudge through the muck, but as you draw nearer a stage appears and then it clicks. This is no Wonderland, you’ve now entered The Bluff’s realm.

At the forefront of this 4-piece is the booming baritone and piercing falsetto of lead singer Kirk Dath. Principal songwriter, and founder, Dath is the voice that guides listeners through torrid scenes of desire, or ushers them across the River Styx with mellifluous whispers of absolution. Using a carefully-honed lead guitar, Ryan Arnold provides depth and drama to the music, employing both ferocious bone-cutting solos and rich, nuanced tapestries of sound. Darren Farnsworth, the well-oiled engine of the group, provides both propulsion and elegance from behind the kit.

Equipped with an arsenal of songs depicting lust, love, loss, murder and malevolence, Crook & the Bluff’s music explores diverse themes and often meddles in strange curiosities. Storytellers at heart, “The Bluff” engulfs listeners in a spectrum of orchestrated vibrations with eerie ballads of torment and revenge, a sultry number lamenting a lost bird that administers the pulse to the dance floor, or the droning, hypnotic piece that buzzes through a hallucination upon licking a toad. Equal parts musicians and mad-scientists, the band has crafted a deep symbiosis with its armory of equipment, using it to manifest colourful and bizarre soundscapes that has many fans describing them as “the Pink Floyd of the American West”.

Crook & the Bluff is a band more at home on the road. Driven by an appetite for exploration, foreign encounters, and peering into the kaleidoscopic jewels of their minds, they regularly leave their hometown of Salt Lake City to tour throughout North America and Europe. The Bluff has shared the stage with international touring acts including, Murder By Death, Joshua James, Wovenhand and Sleepy Sun and headlined music festivals: MGME, Craft Lake City, Escalante Music Festival and the Utah Arts Festival. Crook & the Bluff delivers their music with passion, intensity, and precision that leaves audiences bare, feverishly aching for more.

 

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Previous Members of Crook & The Bluff

Kevin Schultz, Bass Guitar
Nick Wulforst, Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals
Sarah Anne DeGraw, Drums & Backing Vocals
Tad Wilford, Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals

23 Upcoming Shows

Catch Crook & The Bluff live in a city near you.

Crook & The Bluff at  The Metro

Sat, Feb 23

At The Metro
Salt Lake City, UT

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Saturday, February 23
Salt Lake City, UT

 

Crook & The Bluff at  Johnny's on Second

Sat, Mar 2

At Johnny's on Second
Salt Lake City, Utah

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Saturday, March 2
Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Crook & The Bluff at  The Hog Wallow

Sat, Mar 9

At The Hog Wallow
Cottonwood Heights, Utah

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Saturday, March 9
Cottonwood Heights, Utah

 

Crook & The Bluff at  Den Heilige Cornelius

Thu, Mar 14

At Den Heilige Cornelius
Roermond, Netherlands

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Thursday, March 14
Roermond, Netherlands

 

Crook & The Bluff at  't Schallemaaj

Fri, Mar 15

At 't Schallemaaj
Ossenisse, Netherlands

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Friday, March 15
Ossenisse, Netherlands

 

Crook & The Bluff at  The Moonshine

Sat, Mar 16

At The Moonshine
Sliedrecht, Netherlands

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Saturday, March 16
Sliedrecht, Netherlands

 

Crook & The Bluff at  't Spektakel

Sun, Mar 17

At 't Spektakel
Asten, Netherlands

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Sunday, March 17
Asten, Netherlands

 

Crook & The Bluff at  Tortuga Unna

Tue, Mar 19

At Tortuga Unna
Unna, Germany

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Tuesday, March 19
Unna, Germany

 

               

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