Jul 6, 2016 | Press, Say That Now
Your house is burning down and you can grab only one thing — what would you save? My guitar, Junior. I built it during my senior year of high school apprenticing with luthier Don Musser. If you weren’t a musician, what would you be? An artist/carpenter/writer. If a...
Jul 1, 2016 | Press, Say That Now
A cynical British music journalist once remarked, with notably ill humor, that the day is soon coming when every American will be declared a singer-songwriter at birth. I know what he meant. There is undeniably a larger supply of singer-songwriters than the world...
Jun 13, 2016 | Press, Say That Now
By Sean Jewell Whooo! We got a hot one comin’ in via brilliant songwriter Ana Egge backed by Danish indie folk band The Sentimentals. They’ve cut a whole album together called Say That Now, which I’m super excited about. It opens with “Take Off My Dress” a wailing...
Mar 19, 2016 | Bright Shadow, Press
Lucinda Williams Called This Artist “… An Exceptional Songwriter…the Nina Simone of Folk” At first listen, I thought Ana Egge was an ethereal / world singer with a tinge of lounge jazz. Her opening track with its deep Charles Muench upright bass is cool in...
Sep 30, 2015 | Bright Shadow, Press
Ana Egge, ‘Dreamer’ from Bright Shadow “Dreamer,” the opening track on North Dakota folksinger Ana Egge’s seventh studio album Bright Shadow, demands attention in spite of its subtle, subdued nature. Members of the roots trio The Stray...
Aug 3, 2015 | Bright Shadow, Press
Speaking of Brooklyn folk artists, Ana Egge has released her eighth studio album, Bright Shadow. It teaches us that gentleness is not synonymous with weakness. The opener, “Dreamer,” is playfully seductive, which is counterbalanced by the meditative...
