For fans of the music on Songs:Illinois this coming Saturday’s booking at Fitzgerald’s is a dream come true. Ana Egge has just released her new record Road To My Love and has just picked up a nice review in Rolling Stone. Buy it here. Rachel Ries is a longtime favorite of S:I who despite her talent doesn’t play out in Chicago near enough. So here’s your chance to see both in the comfy confines of Chicago’s finest roadhouse.
Bully Of New – Ana Egge
Waiting To Fall – Rachel Ries w/Anais Mitchell
I had no idea that when I started this week it would turn into a feature on the small Michigan college town of Ann Arbor. Frontier Ruckus was the start of it all, followed by yesterdays post on Charlene Kaye. And unless something comes up at the last second Anna Ash & The Family Tree will be the last (unless you have any Ann Arbor band recommendations).
There’s a Mason Jennings album called Use Your Voice. I love the record, but I love the sentiment in the title more. If you’re a singer sing. If you’re not, then what are you doing in this racket. Anna Ashe can sing. Now, maybe her voice is slightly unusual, but she does so many interesting things with it in the course of just one song, that I for one, was entranced.
The new record is called Hello Friend (from bird above). Order it now from Cd Baby here.
Ann Marie (or a whispered lover overheard at the foot of the mountain)
The Birds Don’t Care
