Steve Crawford
is a singer, songwriter, guitar player and drummer from Aberdeen in Scotland and now based in Bonn, Germany. He studied drumkit and music theory alongside an LTCL Music Teaching Diploma awarded by Trinity College, London and has worked as a professional musician for almost 20 years. Steve has recorded many albums featuring his own music and arrangements with various groups, while contributing as a singer, guitarist and drummer to many other recordings.
He has toured extensively throughout Europe and beyond, working together with a wealth of talented musicians and is twice nominated with different albums for the prestigious German Record Critics’ Award.
Current projects and bands are Steve Crawford & Spider MacKenzie, Ballad of Crows, Steve Crawford & Sabrina Palm, Le Clou, Alex Panter Band and Crawford & Decker.
“Steve Crawford knows exactly how to write songs that hit the spot both compositionally and vocally……Highly recommended”
(FOLKER MAGAZINE – GERMANY)
“Music (that) feels like home, regardless of where home is”
(TEXAS LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE – USA)
“Top class music from Scotland”
(WAZ NEWSPAPER – GERMANY)
“Self-composed songs with gripping intensity”
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE – GERMANY)
“Clever, introspective and touching lyrics” (Blues Magazine UK)
“A solid wordsmith, Crawford delivers each song with confidence and warmth” (NORTHERN SKY MAGAZINE – UK)
“Powerful alt-country and blues arrangements from a singer with a voice with 'open-road 'Americana' written all over it”
(The Daily Record)
(About Celticana)
“Eleven tracks of masterful and rich Celticana, underpinned by perfect playing and singing, creating a whole that just shines with class” (5 STARS *)
(TIMEPASTANDTIMEPASSING – UK)
“As good a combination of vocal, guitar and harmonica
as you’re likely to hear, decorating songs that remind me of the
quality and easy skill of early Jackson Browne”
(FOLKING – UK)
(About In Balance)
“Steve Crawford is an impressive singer and a very compotent rhythm guitarist…..All in all a remarkable debut – can’t help thinking this duo could go far if they wanted to”
(fROOTS MAGAZINE – UK)