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The Boot – Ana Egge feat. Iris DeMent, ‘Ballad of the Poor Child’ [Exclusive Premiere]
Singer-songwriter Ana Egge is debuting her new take on the song "Ballad of the Poor Child," featuring fellow artist Iris DeMent, exclusively for readers of The Boot. Press play below to listen. Written and originally released by folk artist Diana...
Billboard – Ana Egge Shares Playful ‘You Among the Flowers’ Lyric Video: Premiere
World circumstances led Ana Egge to "not hold back at all" in making her new album, White Tiger -- including the track "You Among The Flowers," whose lyric video is premiering exclusively below. "The gloves are off, apparently," the Brooklyn-based...
Bluegrass Situation – Listen: Ana Egge’s “Girls, Girls, Girls”
Artist: Ana EggeHometown: Brooklyn, NYSong: “Girls, Girls, Girls”Album: White TigerRelease Date: June 8, 2018Label: StorySound Records In Their Words: “When I first moved to NYC it was such an exciting time. Like it can be for so many people to find such freedom...
FATEA UK – Say That Now Review
Say That Now is the new album from Ana Egge. Last year she released "Bright Shadow" working with American Roots trio The Stray Birds and previously she has worked on recordings with Steve Earle and Ron Sexsmith. The new album finds her collaborating with old friends...
Bluegrass Situation Interview
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...
Rambles.net UK – Say That Now Review
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...
American Standard Time – “Take Off My Dress”
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...
No Depression – Bright Shadow Review
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 a beat...
NPR Heavy Rotation – September 2015
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 Birds are Egge's collaborators...
Adobe and Teardrops – Bright Shadow Review
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 conclusion of "The...
Pop Matters – Bright Shadow Review
Having grown up in a North Dakota town of 50 people, Ana Egge's music is seemingly spare at times, which makes you wonder if that geographical vastness has influenced the similar sparseness of her music. If you've ever spent time in a tiny town on the Plains, though,...
No Depression – Ana Egge and The Stray Birds: Why I Cry at 2:35
By Easy Ed I was not unfamiliar with the name Ana Egge when, on the first of July, I received a communique from a friend of mine that new music from her was on its way. Four years ago I took notice of this woman with an album called Bad Blood, at first, admittedly,...
Twangville: Bright Shadow Review
In New York, Chicago, San Francisco, you can still find dimly lit, low-ceiling basement clubs, surprisingly full even on a weeknight, where you can get a stiff drink and a soberingly good jazz band. You can’t smoke in them anymore, but that smoky sound still comes...
American Standard Time Song Premier: “The Ballad of Jean Genet”
By Sean Jewell Outlaw poets are the best poets. By talent or by fate, none quite nailed the role like French poet Jean Genet. Genet was a adopted after being born to a prostitute; as a child he loved running away and became a thief. He became imprisoned, got out by...
Music Canada
‘Takes A Woman Like You’, Vol. 9: Ana Egge By Maïa Davies Maïa Davies of Ladies of the Canyon is back with ‘Takes A Woman Like You,’ a new feature blog at Music Canada that brings a twist to the traditional music interview. This summer, Maïa will pick the brains of...
NOW Toronto: Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter gathers no moss
By CARLA GILLIS Ana Egge will spend most of this year on the road touring her seventh album, Bad Blood, out on Ammal Records. She spent most of last year on the road, too. And the year before that, and the one before that, in part as a backup singer/musician on Joel...
Southwest Flair Magazine Interview
By Bill Bruedigam for Southwest Flair SWF: How long has it been since you have lived in the Southwest, in New Mexico; Silver City to be exact? AE: I haven’t lived there full time for ten years but I’ve been building a house out there for longer than that. So I have a...
The Washington Post: Bad Blood Review
By Mark Jenkins Like so many performers inspired by traditional Appalachian laments, Ana Egge takes pleasure in sorrow. “Bad Blood,” the singer-guitarist’s seventh album, is heavy on anguished tales, some of them probably fictional but others clearly autobiographical....
The Chronicle Herald: Egge brings new material to folk fest
By Stephen Cooke The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia Born in Saskatchewan, raised in North Dakota and New Mexico and now based in Brooklyn, Ana Egge has seen her share of the world. Halifax is part of that equation too. She’s made frequent trips here to perform...
Now Magazine Toronto: Bad Blood Review
By Sarah Greene Saskatchewan-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter Ana Egge delves into dark subject matter on her Steve Earle-produced seventh album, recorded at the late Levon Helm’s studio in upstate New York. Egge’s Americana recalls Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch,...