Never once have I thought of Poe’s The Raven as a jazz song but holy heck if it doesn’t work. I got this on vinyl, because I’d given away my Cadabra Records version for some dumb reason, mainly on a whim. I’m delightful surprised by what it actually was.

Give it a listen below on YouTube or Spotify as it’s performed by The Flat Five.

The Flat Five is a Chicago-based pop vocal super-group — Kelly Hogan, Nora O’Connor, Scott Ligon, Casey McDonough, Alex Hall — five in-demand musicians who individually spend much of their time touring and recording with bands like Neko Case, NRBQ, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples, Iron and Wine, Jakob Dylan, Robbie Fulks, Alejandro Escovedo, The New Pornographers, and many other heavy hitters. These five folks stay very, very busy. Yet for the past ten years, these shameless harmony junkies would come together, like a moth to a porchlight, to make music as The Flat Five. Purely for the love of singing together.  For the mother-effing fun of it.