AMY ANNELLE is a modern-day songwriter whose work balances imagination with a reverence for America's restless, divergent musical past. She's been recording and touring for over a decade, crafting "richly textured, exotic song-worlds that often bear little resemblance to standard voice-and-guitar folk songs" (Billboard). Through many seasons, across many miles, Annelle has cultivated a rarefied voice and a repertoire that "blooms with open-hearted, lustful vulnerability and a harrowing naturalistic solitude" (Crawdaddy). "The Cimarron Banks" is Annelle's seventh album; it was written up on the Oklahoma Panhandle's feral badlands and recorded in her adopted hometown of Austin, Texas.
In addition to her own work, Annelle has sung with Michael Hurley, Bill Callahan, Jandek and indie band Okkervil River; she has been billed with notable modern folk artists Roy Harper, Jolie Holland, and Colin Meloy. The new year finds Annelle teaming up with Austin's best and brightest, performing live as Amy Annelle & the True Vine. The ensemble features percussionist Nick Hennies (Weird Weeds), bassist Lindsey Verrill (Some Say Leland, Dana Falconberry) and multi-instrumentalist Roy Coon (Wino Vino, Minor Mishap Marching Band).
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"Annelle possesses the rare instinct for remaining true to roots music while taking it into a different dimension, echoing in the memory long after she’s stopped playing…this is no ordinary folk singer" (Laurie Gallardo, KUT)
"The powerfully affecting songwriter Amy Annelle has quietly put together a body of work that rates with anything you would call 'Americana'…few artists get closer to the ineffable essence of this land of ours in all its great and awful beauty" (Mike Wolf, Timeout NY)
"Like genuine folk singers before, Annelle makes music borne up from the land. Keen, empathetic, they seem to move like ghosts through walls and locked doors and into the homes and lives of men and women they'll never be, yet whose stories are somehow always in part their own--and our own" (Susan Visakowitz, Billboard)
The Cimarron Banks reveals Amy Annelle as a High Plains angel, serenading sagebrush and shadows, while harmonizing with the wind. Her songs are sparse and transcendent. But far from being cloud-bound, Annelle exalts the soil—what grows from it, walks on it, and is built upon it. She also marks the trail of remnants: that which is wilted, forsaken and ghostly"
(Irwin Chusid, WFMU radio)
Amy plays a parlor guitar from Big Hollow Guitars
FAMILY TREE
AMY ANNELLE writes the songs; she performs and records solo lately. She is joined by guest musicians in the studio, and has at other times been accompanied in live settings by duos, trios, quartets and quintets under the retired moniker The Places.
CRAIG ROSS |producer/recording| (Lisa Germano, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin),
RALPH E. WHITE |performing|(Bad Livers, Michelle Shocked, Jandek)
IAN McLAGAN |recording|(Small Faces,Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan)
PAUL BRAINARD |recording, performing|(The Sadies, Richmond Fontaine, Victoria WIlliams)
MOLLY FISCHER |recording|
WILL LANDIN |recording|
MICHAEL HURLEY |performing, recording|
ANDY PIPER |performing, recording| (Reeks & the Wrecks)
JOSHUA HOUSH |performing, recording|
GEORGE D'ANUNZIO |performing|
BRIAN BEATTIE |producer/recording| (Bill Callahan, Daniel Johnston, Okkervil River)
...and blurring in the mists of time, but still ringing true:
JAY PELICCI |producer/recording| (Deerhoof, Erase Errata) JUDE WEBRE |performing, recording|(Dimestore Dance Ensemble, Nina Nastasia) STELLIN NEWSOME |performing|(Sweethearts of the Rodeo) JACK MARTIN |performing|(Kid Congo Powers, Knoxville Girls) SCOTT JARVIS |performing| (Mo Tucker, Jad Fair) RACHEL BLUMBERG |recording| (The Decemberists, Bright Eyes, M. Ward) JASON SANDS |performing, recording|(Reeks & The Wrecks) DYLAN REILLY |performing| TIMOTHY HORNER |performing, recording|(Grails, Jackie-O Motherfucker) JOHNNY SCHIER |performing, recording| (Last of the Juanitas, Truman's Water) RYAN STOWE |performing, recording| (Swords Project) JORDAN HUDSON |performing, recording| (The Thermals) ZAK RILES |performing, recording| (Grails, M. Ward) MIKE SCHORR |performing, recording| (Death Cab for Cutie) JOE HAEGE |recording| (31 Knots) ADAM KRINEY |performing| (Castanets) J. ALARIC TRUE |performing, recording| AMANDA LAWRENCE |recording| SIERRA COLLUM |recording|
DISCOGRAPHY
2010 Amy Annelle, The Cimarron Banks (High Plains Sigh)
2009 Precious Blood (Amy Annelle & Ralph White duo) Top of the Holler (High Plains Sigh)
2009 Precious Blood (Amy Annelle & Ralph White duo) KVRX Local Live Compilation
2008 Amy Annelle, Some From the Stream Tour Comp (High Plains Sigh)
2006 The Places, Songs for Creeps (High Plains Sigh)
2005 The Places, Fawns With Fangs: Seclctions from the Dark Heart of the Thicket (High Plains Sigh)
2005 The Places, Appetizers & Leftovers/Austin, TX Compilation (I Eat Records)
2004 The Places, Call It Sleep (Hush)
2002 The Places, Pop Life Vol. 9 Compilation (Contact Records Japan)
2001 Amy Annelle, A School of Secret Dangers (Hush)
2000 The Places, The Autopilot Knows You Best (Absolutely Kosher)
1999 Amy Annelle, Which One's You? (Hush)
1997 Amy Annelle (as Underwater Salvage Partners), Fuel Compilation (Arena Rock)
