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Easy Ed commented on Anne McCue's blog post 'I ain't superstitious...'

Perhaps instead of calling it "Roll" it should have been named "Wry Bread".

Jan 11

I ain't superstitious...

I ain't superstitious but... My album 'Roll' (Bob Harris' pick of 2004) was released with only one song on it and had to be recalled (dud copies are still turning up) and the sound disappeared from all the videos posted from that album... Weird luck, huh? http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/amccue See More

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Millionaire's Christmas Show

Dec 12, 2011

Millionaire's Christmas Show at National Underground

December 18, 2011 from 6pm to 8pm

Nashville Christmas Shindig Sunday 18th Dec 6 - 8pm with Audrey Auld-Mezera, Wendy Christopher, Irene Kelley, Tony Kerr, Amelia White, Anne McCue & The Blue Millionaires!!! National Underground, 105 Broadway - across from Hard Rock Cafe. Free!https://www.facebook.com/events/289584467750540/See More

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Nashville Show Mercy Loung Nov. 22nd at Mercy Lounge

November 22, 2011 from 8pm to 10pm

Nashville Show Tues 22nd November 'Mando Blues Review' starring Kenny Vaughan, Blackfoot Gypsies, Anne McCue, Jim Skinner &The Eastside Revelators 8 pmSee More

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Anne McCue replied to Patterson Barrett's discussion '5th Annual Gram Parsons Birthday Hoot' in the group No Depression Austin

Sounds like fun, wish I could attend!

Nov 3, 2011

Easy Ed commented on Anne McCue's blog post 'Australian Tour So Far...'

Imagine it could have been worse if it was a 1997 VW instead of the Volvo. Goes to show you that modern day itinerant musician isn't so bad off. Power through...

Oct 25, 2011

Australian Tour So Far...

Dear Friends, Melbourne was an absolute blast. We started off at The Caravan Club with a reunion with Sherry Rich from Girl Monstar and myself. Sherry joined me on 'I Want You Back' after opening the show. Then there was a surprise visit from Nancy Wilson (Heart) and we played Southern Man (Neil Young) together with the fantastic band of James Black, Simon Dawe and Rick Plant. After sleeping part of the night in the back of a 1997 Volvo (cold!!) due to a faulty key situation at my digs, I went…See More

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russ left a comment for Anne McCue

i am also lovin "We Are The Same"... kind of melts away the miles between here and Nville.

Jul 2, 2011

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Hey Anne, Thanks so much for the the friend req! You are very nice... ! By the way, i am LOVIN "Yeah No Yeah - Happy Alone"!!! ...and the small picture frame idea in the video was very cool. peace and distant mountain ridges, russ

Jul 2, 2011

Anne McCue live at Smith's Olde Bar, Atlanta at Smith's Olde Bar, Atlanta

July 5, 2011 from 7pm to 10pm

Anne McCue live at Smith's Olde Bar, Atlanta Tues. July 5thSee More

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excellent video! Loved the song a lot and the video made it even better. Well done from England. Alan

Jul 2, 2011

Yeah No Yeah - Happy Alone

Yeah No Yeah's first single, Happy Alone. Available now on itunes and cdbaby.com http://www.itunes.com/yeahnoyeah http://www.cdbaby.com/yeahnoyeah1 Like Yeah...

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Anne McCue commented on Kim Ruehl's blog post 'SXSW Peace March planned for Mar. 19 - Anniversary of Iraq invasion'

Thanks Kim. Remember how the mainstream media here lied about the numbers of protesters? That whole thing was one of the big turning points of when Democracy lost to Corpocracy. e.g. 'We don't need anyone's permission...' - Huh?…

Mar 11, 2011

Live In Tasmania
February 20, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm
Live in Sydney Australia
February 18, 2011 from 8pm to 11pm
Live In Australia
February 11, 2011 from 8pm to 11pm

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Events posted by Anne McCue Dec 21, 2010

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ANNE McCUE’S NEW ALBUM, BROKEN PROMISE LAND,  RETURNS TO THE RAW SOUND OF
CRITICALLY APPLAUDED ROLL AND KOALA MOTEL

The May 18 release, recorded in Nashville, features rhythm section of
Ken Coomer (Uncle Tupelo/Wilco) and Bones Hillman (Midnight Oil)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Anne McCue describes her new album, Broken Promise Land, due out on May 18, 2010 on Flying Machine Records, as “a bit dirty, a bit rockin’, a bit swampy and a bit bluesy, with a touch of mysteriousness to it.”

What isn’t mysterious is McCue’s musical talent and range. She was voted the Roots Music Association’s Folk Artist of the Year in 2008, performed in a Jimi Hendrix tribute at the 2007 International Guitar Festival and was included in the Four Decades of Folk Rock box set alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and Wilco. Heart’s Nancy Wilson has described her as “my Aussie clone,” while Americana icon Lucinda Williams had this to say: “Initially, her stunning voice hooked me in. Then I got inside the songs. The first chance I got, I went to see her perform . . . I was floored! The combination of her tomboyish beauty mixed with the precision and assertiveness with which she approached the guitar, her surrounding languid and earthy vocals created an intoxicating blend.”

The new, self-produced album is one that she has long wanted to make. Combining heartfelt songwriting with gritty guitar playing, the record harkens back to McCue’s breakout Roll release, although she says that the new disc’s sound is even more raw than its predecessor. While earlier albums covered a range of roots-rock styles, Broken Promise Land focuses on McCue’s hard-charging “cosmic biker rock” sound.

The new disc lets McCue showcase her rockin’ ways and six-string virtuosity. The title track cuts loose with a blistering Hendrix-like bluesy guitar solo. The first single, “Don’t Go To Texas (Without Me),” boasts the dirty guitar sound of late ’60s English bands like the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones, while “The Old Man Talkin’” exudes a slinky J.J. Cale vibe.

The music’s strong, visceral energy results from a strategy to record as much as possible live. “I didn’t want to have a lot of layers. I wanted it to be pretty much what I can do on stage,” McCue asserts. She sought to capture the vibe of the old Albert King albums that she loves, which were recorded in only a few days, and she included a brass section in the sessions. By recording to tape, McCue also created the textures and dimension that she admires in T-Bone Burnett’s work.

On Broken Promise Land, McCue utilized the veteran rhythm section of Bones Hillman (Midnight Oil) and drummer Ken Coomer (Uncle Tupelo/Wilco). “Bones and Ken are very developed as musicians,” she says. “It’s great to have that type of depth to the musicianship.” This powerful trio demonstrates their musical breadth throughout this disc, whether it’s building “The Lonely One” into a surging rock ballad, conjuring a spooky atmosphere in Amelia White’s “Motorcycle Dream” or roaring through a cover of Rose Tattoo’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Outlaw.”

McCue’s love for music was nurtured in Sydney, Australia, where she grew up in a house filled with music. Her father, while not a professional musician, played a variety of instruments and her mother sang in the church choir. All of her seven older siblings were heavily into music too, and sounds ranging from Billie Holiday to Led Zeppelin filled the McCue home. “Every type of music except hardcore blues,” the blues-loving McCue admits, “so I definitely didn’t get burned out on it as a child.”

Although McCue played guitar growing up, she wasn’t encouraged to be a musician. A longtime film buff, she got a degree in film studies at Sydney’s University of Technology. Her cinema studies are an influence. “To me, my songs are like short films,” she reveals, “I try to be very visual and cinematic with my music and now I am making videos for the songs too.”

After college, McCue joined an all-female band, Girl Monstar, which was very popular in the Australian indie rock scene. She later became a part of the folk-rock trio Eden AKA that performed on the Lilith Fair tour and recorded a never-released album for Columbia Records. Her ill-fated Columbia experience landed her in America, where she set up shop in Los Angeles and became a vital part of the city’s roots music scene. During her time in Southern California, she recorded two attention-grabbing albums — 2004’s Roll and 2006’s Koala Motel.

Both releases accumulated a bevy of critical accolades. Entertainment Weekly exclaimed that McCue “represents a new generation of hard-bitten, country-inflected singer-songsmiths,” while Billboard heralded her as “the virtual definition of ‘triple threat.’ A potent singer, thoughtful songwriter and tough guitarist.” Austin Chronicle critic Jim Caligiuri noted that “these days, there are very few women working the same territory as McCue, who can combine tough and vulnerable. That she does it with poise and a self-deprecating sense of humor makes her an artist worth seeing again.”

A few years ago, McCue moved to Nashville, a place she finds quite fertile for making music. “There’s more room to think, more creative space,” she explains, “but there are so many great musicians that it really raises the bar and makes you want to get better.” Last year, she self-produced a limited-distribution acoustic album, East of Electric, on which she played a variety of instruments. A terrific example of her folkier side, it stands as a quiet side-trip to the full-bodied rock ferocity that Broken Promise Land delivers.

“This is the kind of music I love playing,” says McCue talking enthusiastically about her Broken Promise Land songs. “There’s nothing I could look more forward to than playing a whole set of bluesy, rocky, swampy music.”

See the video for McCue’s “Don’t Go to Texas (Without Me)” at www.annemccue.com
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For more information about Anne McCue, please contact Conqueroo:
Cary Baker • (323) 656-1600 • cary@conqueroo.com

"This new album is such a beauty. The song Beautiful Thing is stunning. I love every song on this record...maybe because Anne McCue is my Aussie clone!" ~ Nancy Wilson (Heart)

"Anne McCue has made an amazing album - produced and recorded by herself. It sounds great, with her usual high standard of songwriting. I only wish I could have played on it." DUSTY WAKEMAN (Producer/Engineer: Lucinda Williams/Dwight Yoakam/Michelle Shocked)

"Anne's got a great set of studio skills. A one-woman tour de force on all those instruments." GURF MORLIX (Producer: Lucinda Wiliams/Mary Gauthier)

"Anne McCue sounds like a woman of the world in the best way; for those of you out there who are sick of having the wheel reinvented, who want a little grit, a sense of someone who felt it and some really good tunes that sound like they were played not toyed with go get East Of Electric. It’s really, really good." DEBORAH CONWAY.

"McCue pours blood all over the tracks on her new Roll, singing of death and lust and sin and regret and whores and Gandhi. She possesses a poignantly plaintive voice and multi-ranged guitar chops that swing from tasty Delta blues to stinging slide chordings to fat feedbacked riffs (dig her cover of Hendrix's "Machine Gun.") -- LA Weekly

"McCue brings post-Hendrix blues guitar and her post-Lucinda alto from the land of Oz (and a year of one-night stands in Vietnam; really), and would be worth showing up for even if she were alone." -- Village Voice

"Anne McCue is a folkie, but she's no delicate flower: Fresh off a tour with Louisiana growler Lucinda Williams, the Aussie singer-guitarist recently spent a year gigging five nights a week in Vietnam and boasts an arsenal of muscular Hendrix chords." -- Blender

"Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Anne McCue wields potent bluesy rock against her unaffected, naturally wistful voice." -- RollingStone.com

"A gifted guitarist" -- Harp

"The best album of the year!" -- Bob Harris, BBC

"Anne McCue's second record, Roll (Messenger), proves the value of fiery guitar playing to archy singer/songwriter material, as the Aussie lets her instrument roll behind her vocals, expressing with contained metallic fury what her words only suggest." -- The Onion

"It's a compelling effort -- at turns hard-nosed and soft-stroking, rocking and twangy -- with McCue's consistently vital material, emotive vocals and great guitar work." -- Philadelphia Daily News

"Besides having a bluesy voice and songs to match ('50 Dollar Whore,' 'Ballad of an Outlaw Woman'), McCue is an accomplished guitarist who can handle Delta blues and fat feedback as well as quieter folk stylings. Not only does she dare to cover Hendrix's 'Machine Gun,' but her nine-minute version, tucked away as a hidden track Â at the end of her new album, Roll, also does righteous justice to the revered Â guitar god's memory." -- Washington Post

"Listeners will delight in her slide guitar prowess, as well as her pointed and powerful lyrics." -- Seattle Post Intelligencer

"Anne McCue is the virtual definition of "triple threat." A potent singer, thoughtful songwriter and tough guitarist, she completely comes into her own on this new project." -- Billboard

"The young Australian earns accolades with an album of songs that stretch from urgent to world-weary with bracing bluntness." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"My new favorite artist and an amazing guitarist" -- Lucinda Williams

"Highlighting songs from her latest, Koala Motel, she used every guitar in the battery she brought on stage, from the National steel to the Danelectro 12-string to the lap steel, and each allowed her the freedom to explore a different type of roots music, including swampy Creedence stomp, ethereal blues, and countrified jangle.
These days, there are very few women working the same territory as McCue who can combine tough and vulnerable. That she does it with poise and a self-deprecating sense of humor makes her an artist worth seeing again." --Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle

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I ain't superstitious...

I ain't superstitious but... My album 'Roll' (Bob Harris' pick of 2004) was released with only one song on it and had to be recalled (dud copies are still turning up) and the sound disappeared from all the videos posted from that album... Weird luck, huh? http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/amccue

Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:49pm — 1 Comment

Australian Tour So Far...

Dear Friends,

Melbourne was an absolute blast. We started off at The Caravan Club with a reunion with Sherry Rich from Girl Monstar and myself. Sherry joined me on 'I Want You Back' after opening the show.

Then there was a surprise visit from Nancy Wilson (Heart) and we played Southern Man (Neil Young) together with the fantastic band of James Black, Simon Dawe and Rick Plant.

After sleeping part of the night in the back of a 1997 Volvo…

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Posted on October 23, 2011 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

SHINE ON TONY JOE WHITE

[A few years back, Byron Bay, Australia]

The night had come down slowly, warm and beautiful, and I was waiting side of stage for the show to begin. There was a light coming from the artists' trailer behind me and it spilled over toward the stage.

Suddenly I was engulfed by an enormous sillhouette - an image of a man in a cowboy hat splayed along the ground. Larger than life, a legendary figure printed like black ink on the grass.

It was then that I knew I… Continue

Posted on December 6, 2010 at 1:00pm — 6 Comments

THIS IS NOT ABOUT (YOU KNOW WHO)...

She pointed her tambourine at my friend and shook it, as Marie Laveau might have pointed a bone to cast a spell. Pure anger ripped through her body and my poor sensitive soul ingested it. It cut right through me like a knife in my gut and I was filled with fear.

I took a step backward and put my camera away in my bag.

"You know, I fuckin' hate being Chrissie Hynde," she said. There was a collective intake of breath from the audience and I suddenly didn't want to be… Continue

Posted on September 21, 2010 at 10:10am — 21 Comments

12 Rules Of The Road

Anne McCue's 12 Rules of The Road (This is only a glimpse of the Many Rules Of The Road I have collected)

1. If you are driving on the freeway, don't exit UNLESS you can see the gas station from the freeway. Otherwise, you may be driving several miles to fill up, and there may not be an on-ramp to get back on the freeway if it's a Podunk exit.

2. If you have a band with you (lucky you!), tell everyone in advance that you don't pay for speeding tickets!

3. Public… Continue

Posted on August 3, 2010 at 11:44am — 3 Comments

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At 10:50am on July 2, 2011, russ said…: i am also lovin "We Are The Same"... kind of melts
away the miles between here and Nville.

At 10:48am on July 2, 2011, russ said…: Hey Anne,

Thanks so much for the the friend req! You are very nice... !

By the way, i am LOVIN "Yeah No Yeah - Happy Alone"!!!

...and the small picture frame idea in the video was very cool.

peace and distant mountain ridges,
russ

At 9:55am on July 2, 2011, Alan Harrison said…: excellent video! Loved the song a lot and the video made it even better. Well done from England.

Alan

At 7:40am on October 12, 2010, The Medicine Show said…: Loving your CD Anne, its a Medicine Show favourite, let me know when your next in the UK I can help I'm sure
Rob Ellen

At 8:24am on September 28, 2010, Will James said…: Hi Anne, how are you, remember me? Was wondering if you'd be interested in joining your hometown ND Group, Area Code 615 (Nashville). Feel free to posts gigs anything. Will James, Admin

At 12:14pm on October 30, 2009, David said…: Hi Anne, love your work. Checked out the new songs and videos and can't wait for your next album!

At 6:20pm on April 28, 2009, John Weaver said…: Wow!
Fantastic songs you've posted, can't wait to get the entire album!
Keep up the great work!

At 5:37pm on April 28, 2009, Joshua Tree Inn said…: Anne-
We love your music!!!
xxx

At 11:12am on April 28, 2009, No Depression said…: Hi Anne - Welcome to the new community site! We hope you're finding everything okay. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback (here are some FAQs in case anything's confusing). Thanks for joining. Cheers!
Kim